Stop doing whatever you think is important & read the collected...
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Mar 22, 2025
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Stop doing whatever you think is important & read the collected works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, George Chapman, Philip Sidney, John Donne, Ben Jonson, John Milton, William Wordsworth, William Blake, Lord Byron, Keats, Shelley... you're welcome.
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No one is keeping culture from you-- English Literature is ubiquitously available in collected form-- for free-- compiled in comprehensive folios, in library editions being sold for pennies, some for free (paying shipping only), & no one is stopping you from this.
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If you do this-- if you read everything written by all of these poets-- you will be better educated than any PhD in English Literature. Not a single one has read all of these things. No one reads all of this anymore. It's too powerful-- it's more consciousness altering than DMT.
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I know you think that all the "meme books" like Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, the French Theorists of the 20th century, the "reactionaries" etc are going to furnish your mind with power-- but they won't-- they're mindnumbing things compared to the brief canon I've just described.
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Heidegger is nothing but a commentator on Holderlin-- even the "German Idealists" are just later commentators on English literature-- it took them until the 18th century to get Shakespeare. Meanwhile-- the English poets had been living within Shakespeare for centuries.
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The "Continental Bias" is what's truly parochial in world-historical terms. Blake knew that Albion was the avant-garde of the world-- the prophets of modernity wrote in English. The French Revolution is just the Glorious Revolution in rerun-- Marx knew this.
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The most "avant-garde" elements of England became American-- & the English Empire reclined into soporific malaise & "conservativism"-- the American Revolution is extremely *underrated* by Americans because they don't know World History. It wasn't underrated by Schiller.
