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Clearly written by a mathematics prodigy. Reads like a series of lemmas on the question of 21st century quality of life. It's easy to quickly and thoughtless write this off as the manifesto of a lunatic, in order to avoid facing some of the uncomfortable problems it identifies. But it's simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society turned out. He was a violent individual - rightfully imprisoned - who maimed innocent people. While these actions tend to be characterized as those of a crazy luddite, however, they are more accurately seen as those of an extreme political revolutionary. A take I found online that I think is interesting: "Had the balls to recognize that peaceful protest has gotten us absolutely nowhere and at the end of the day, he's probably right. Oil barons haven't listened to any environmentalists, but they feared him. When all other forms of communication fail, violence is necessary to survive. You may not like his methods, but to see things from his perspective, it's not terrorism, it's war and revolution. Fossil fuel companies actively suppress anything that stands in their way and within a generation or two, it will begin costing human lives by greater and greater magnitudes until the earth is just a flaming ball orbiting third from the sun. Peaceful protest is outright ignored, economic protest isn't possible in the current system, so how long until we recognize that violence against those who lead us to such destruction is justified as self-defense. These companies don't care about you, or your kids, or your grandkids. They have zero qualms about burning down the planet for a buck, so why should we have any qualms about burning them down to survive? We're animals just like everything else on this planet, except we've forgotten the law of the jungle and bend over for our overlords when any other animal would recognize the threat and fight to the death for their survival. 'Violence never solved anything' is a statement uttered by cowards and predators."

A review from Luigi Mangione's Goodreads account, published Jan 31, 2024

why is everyone obsessed over romeo and juliet when the holy trinity of gay tragic lovers exits!? like alexander the great, achilles and apollo didn’t lose hephaestion, patroclus and hyacinthus for everyone to forget about them!! like they’re the same but one is a myth, the other is a book, and the one that was real

"You were in my dreams last night" yeah our souls have been clawing through our chests to get to each other since we met but I'm glad you noticed

grief is so crazy like what if i forget what her laugh sounds like. does she know i loved her. i miss her so much. i catch myself doing things she used to do. i wish i could call her. i miss her so much. i do a crossword puzzle. i cry while washing the dishes. does she know i loved her? my heart feels like a hummingbird. i miss her so much. what if i forget what her laugh sounds like. what if i forget.

For The Year Of The Insane, Anne Sexton

Morning Star by Alphonse Mucha (1902)

Else Fitzgerald, from "Everything Feels Like the End of The World," publ. in 2022

mutuals in this life are just those who happened to frequent the same 19th century opium den in a past life

"To forget, to forget ...", Vahan Teryan (translated by Tathev Simonyan)

“your body my choice” how about your nuts my knee

— Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) (via lunamonchtuna)

my friends and i are going to curse him under the full moon later this month

i’m not even american but i feel like doomsday is coming

what the fuck is actually happening in america right now

what the fuck is actually happening in america right now

*girl on the brink of self destruction* i miss academia

But I am a star. I feel that I am a star. Shattered. I am a shard of glass on the ground.

Clarice Lispector, from A Breath of Life

Anaïs Nin, from a novel titled "A Spy in the House of Love," published in 1954

MICHELANGELO Last Judgment (detail) 1537-41 Fresco Cappella Sistina, Vatican

“it’s starting to smell like pumpkin spice!”

“it’s starting to smell like scary movies!”

no.

it’s starting to smell like, the snow in the mountains was melting and bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to realize the gravity of our situation.

Margaret Atwood, from ‘Crickets’, The Door (2007)

Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary, August 1921

Virginia Woolf, from The Complete Works; “Carlyle’s House and Other Sketches,”

August 5, 1926 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

Velimir Khlebnikov, from The Collected Works of Velimir Khlebnikov; “Lyrics,”

i have acquired 29 novels and a 2-year-long weekly subscription of time magazine. my friends think i’m crazy. mission accomplished

the book fair in my city is tomorrow i’m preparing to go bankrupt now

i have looks of a authoritative law professor, the attitude of a bastard and a soul of a whore. no you cannot beat me

the book fair in my city is tomorrow i’m preparing to go bankrupt now

Orpheus tries to hold on to Eurydice

.c. 1791

Artist : François Gérard (1770-1837)