The Veeky Forumsnik Generation

So why don't a few members of Veeky Forums move to some city and create a small intellectual community? Sharing the expenses and rent means less time working and more time writing/reading. Plus there's the possibility of real literary discussion without the memes of Veeky Forums. Maybe I haven't been looking in the right places in the past but it seems like Veeky Forums is one of the last large and open groups that talks about literature. So why not take it to the next level like the Beatniks did?

>next level
>beatnik

How's high school going?

What are some Veeky Forums approved cities? Seems like the only cool places in the world are insanely expensive

Prague

>Sharing the expenses and rent means less time working
I see absolutely no problems with this it's infallible

>without the memes of Veeky Forums

The Horror !

Austin tx anyone?

>tourist: the city
No

>Le keep Austin weird xD super liberal crowd
Lolno

Bruh it's way past that, the city's degenerated into stratified groups of overweight "free spirit" sjw's, Bro-dude California transplants, actually healthy people in their early-mid 30's, and homeless black people. Somehow it still beats every other major TX city.

if you were going to start a real literary community it would need to be in some insanely rural area. Cheaper, nice naturey scenes, romantic shit

plus cities arent like they were; cities are awful, awful places where only Mark Z Danielewski-tier artists and writers are bred

like Michigan's upper-peninsula. Does it get more comfy than that?

>How's high school going?

It's a pretty lonely time.

>I see absolutely no problems with this it's infallible

Can you explain some of the pitfalls that might come with this? I'm quite ignorant about what the logistics would be because of my age but it seems like it's been done before with some success.

>The Horror !

Not saying memes are the worst thing in the world but they can prevent actual discussion from time to time.

Sounds fucking awful

Beunos Aires

It is, and it still manages to beat the rest of the state
Have you ever been to Texas?

I like the idea but would the cutoff from the rest of world that may come from living in an ultra rural area be bad or good for intellectual efforts? It seems like some connection with modern society would be necessary to feed creative efforts but perhaps a more isolated approach would be better.

My uncle lived in ftw. Only went like once.

Bad. That poster is an idiot. The reason that artistic types in general move to city centers is because it helps with the free flow of information.

The problem is that I end up taking care of manchildren. maybe I'm overly wary because it's happened to me before, but there's a common breed of people that instinctively take the low road.

I would actually be willing to move to this sort of thing, but I'd want to live alone.

If you spend this much time worrying about where you should write you're never going to write anything.

>there's a common breed of people that instinctively take the low road.

Agreed, I'm not really sure how a group would overcome this problem. This is what brought the hippie and beat movements down (Veeky Forums probably hates both of those but they're good examples).

>If you spend this much time worrying about where you should write you're never going to write anything

Agreed, you can write anywhere. However it might be a good idea to take some time and find a place that satisfies your needs.

the "free flow of information" in 2016 is what? Pokemon Go?

i'm sure that'd make a real fascinating novel-- probably even top the new york times bestseller list!

no i'm joking obviously-- the zeitgeist right now is retreat from hyper-everything civilization

it's all too fast, people want to slow down

Why did I say agreed twice...

Hasn't Steve Roggenbuck started a commune in Tuscon? I'm convinced there's no way I could have dreamed that.

Other places: Seattle, Detroit, Bristol, Dublin - cheaper than top tier cities, but still reasonably developed.

Only innawoods, retarded, alt-right, /pol/acks. Now is the best time to be alive. Stop fighting progress.

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You're just as bad as the most retarded/pol/ack if you think what's happening now is "progress".

The modern world is overwhelming to many people true enough. Being in a city or medium sized town would mean you have the option to participate in society or shut yourself away in an isolated community within the city. Rural life means you don't have the option.

i'm not fighting progress-- i'm saying that cities have grown sterile and ephemeral

The modernist expatriate crew did not live in a Paris with four Starbucks and McDonalds on every block (the reality in every city you can think of)

it's ugly and bad and produces shitbooks like Ready Player One that are about nothing at all

or like Infinite Jest

>four Starbucks and McDonald's on every block
You've never actually lived in a city have you?

/x/ tried to do the same thing once, don't think it worked out as planned

>Technology advancing quickly
>New healthcare advances saving more lives
>Art shared quicker and to wider audiences
>More equality than any point in history
You're right. Totally backwards

This. Anti-city people are retarded when it actually comes to what cities are really like.

No thanks. You're all plebs.

Don't you want to help others learn how not to be a pleb user? Spread learning throughout the world.

Buenos Aires is actually more expensive than a lot of top-tier european cities. Get recked, nigger, and good luck paying your utility bills this month.

lol I think every board is planning on doing this. I saw a thread about this on /v/ yesterday, and our retarded cousins at /pol/ wanted to buy a huge chunk of land in Namibia, close it off and build their aryan supremacist colony.

>Not subverting and accelerating the trends of contemporary life in your art to the point where it approaches an avant garde scream against it.

>aryan supremacist colony
>Namibia

I see nothing with this plan

Because let's be real none of us want to meet each other, you're probably all a bunch of weirdos

Yep

I work in a record store and whenever I meet some /mu/ memelords I cringe hard.

I imagine Veeky Forumsicens are even worse.

Nah, people don't listen.

Veeky Forums is already the next level of a beatnick commune, you have it backwards OP.

hi lads just popping in to do a cheeky shill of a writing ring im trying to make

You do realise that by bumping this thread from page 5, or whatever it was on, you knocked your own one down and almost off the front page?

nobody uses the index view anymore silly

The catalogue view is the index view. People use both. Nobody was posting in this thread, there's nobody for you to advertise your thread to who wouldn't have seen both.

Compton

Texas seems pretty cool, and this is coming from a Canadian.

how many progressive trannies y'all got

No because /mu/tants actively want to be a part of their shitty culture in the name of authenticity.

See? Since you bumped this thread a bunch of people have replied to it whereas your thread is now on page three. Obviously they're mostly looking at page 1 and replying to what's there. Try bumping your own thread with something that people will engage with and want to respond to.

Bout tree fiddy

omw

com to braziel

tbqfh if I won the lottery, I would open a small apartment in my city for working artists, musicians, and writers. I love the idea of being a patron to some hard working and brilliant person.

Besides running out of money, why in god's name would anyone from California move to Texas?

horses and barbecue

Because they run out of money. Also, if I were born in California I'd want to leave because it's a cesspit. I wouldn't want to go to Texas either but I'd certainly want to get the hell out of California.

god help us no.

San Antonio is cheap and has a lot more to offer. Also, mexican food is better.

>some hard working and brilliant person.

good luck finding someone like that. Most 'artists' these days are nothing but fucking leeches.

>not becoming a Benedictine monk
>not realizing that you only need ora et labora

money

>commiefornia turned to shithole thanks to democrat voters
>texas is full of republicans and conservatives and thus has a strong economy
>commiefornians want this, move to texas, Oregon, Colorado,
>vote dem and ruin red states

I share an apartment with a variety of artists and things. A sculptor and a performance artist are here semi-permanently, there's an illustrator staying here at the moment for a holiday... last time we had a party there were at least five other artists, a writer and a theatre director of some sort. There are usually professional dancers around too. We drink mushroom tea and absinthe and listen to old records. Sometimes I try to explain what vaporwave is to them. It's chill.

The best part is they don't understand why it happens. That said politics are a spook and should be ignored.

Veeky Forums is already perfect,it's shortcomings that you seemed to be bothered with are the vital essence of this generation/s and time .Now stop romanticizing with the past memes and dwell with the present..

I honestly don't get how dems and libs can be so stupid. Blacks abd other minorities too
>gibs me dat *votes dem for 50 years*
>situation hasn't improved
You'd think they'd learn

>underestimating identity politics

Because we all know what happened the last time when a group of autists from Veeky Forums had a meet up don't we?

Wish we'd just get rid of all the non whites/Asians desu

>dat neck
Every time

is this a legit Veeky Forums meet up ??

Toronto

.fa.

Obviously thats Veeky Forums

>wanting to live with shitskins
How about no

Oh, shut the fuck up. I have been in Vancouver, BC, for the last decade, and the people here are soulless jackasses with little to no self awareness, where the yuppies shop at whole foods and the wannabe bohemians shop at a place a lot like whole foods, but isn't a franchise. There is at least one starbucks on every city block leading to suburbia and 4 different universities you can waste tuition on an arts degree. Most of the staff I have hired have a degree, but are without the work ethic or mental clarity to actually make use of it. If you're from a city and you think criticism like this is baseless, you are part of the problem

Those are the lads from Veeky Forums

Because I would hate to be around 90% of people on Veeky Forums

Yet everything you say is still through the lens of an outsider. You didn't actually interact with any of those 'soulless jackasses,' otherwise you'd have realized that they simply have different interests than yourself. This is all besides the fact that you continue to push this idea that there are corporate coffee shops on every corner, which simply isn't true.
I spent the first 24 years of my life outside of the city only having spent a total of two weekends in my entire life prior in a large city. Once I moved to a more urban environment I immediately picked up on the fact that there were more small independent shops on a single street near my new living place than I had ever seen. In fact, from my seat at this computer I can see, two independent coffee shops, and independent used bookstore, and at least seven restaurants most of which also individually owned.
I can personally say that I've met interesting and unique people in each of these places. I visit them all often because they're so close to my apartment. They've all had different experiences and all have different ideas and most can expound on a bevy of topics.
On the flip side when I lived in the suburbs I found far more people exhibiting the characters you point out as negative: lack of work ethic, lack of mental clarity, lack of self-awareness. This is even more apparent when I go further out into the country such as in central Pennsylvania. I have often stopped for food or gas in towns such as Cresson or Hancock in Maryland and gotten far worse service than I've ever received in any of the shops run by 'soulless jackasses.' This is all besides the fact and empirical evidence that suggests that those in rural areas of a lower level and quality of education and have far more stifled and simplistic viewpoints. This is all, again, besides the subjective analysis that these viewpoints are completely backwards in regards to social progress, on many levels.
If you want to continue to push your ideas I suggest you do a better job.

Veeky Forums is our city

Don't you understand that?

"Real-world" physical location is irrelevant now.

Culture as you wish it were to be is irrelevant and perhaps dead entirely.

Mass population, industry, and a culture fed on popular media like TV, movies, the internet, it's killed whatever culture of humanity that was capable of creating great works of art.

"Art" is irrelevant. We no longer have the space and time to create true works of art. Now is the time for action, your actions and words need to be blades against the ropes which hold the world down. Forget our wars of idealism and fix the inherent problems of the system that runs the entire world and owns you.

Humanity had it's artistic fun for a while but now it's starting get bigger and bigger, and the world is going to no longer support it's weight. I believe we are on the cusp of massive change to the entire human population. We are heading towards it as our technology is rapidly expanding. Everything is going to change and the works of art you love so much from the past isn't going to even be comprehensible to create in the future.

>it's

While I agree that action is better than intellectual masturbation art will never die.

Art can and will die if it no longer becomes necessary.

Theoretically you could completely eliminate the concept of art and artistic creation in a human society. Anything is possible in the collective human mind with enough time, power, and organization.

Why will art never die? It's instinctual? We have already proven that old instincts can die, especially when you don't need them anymore.

I believe society is going through a transition period, we are slowly losing the essences of the past in order to fit into our technologically and industrially dominated tightly packed and over-populated world.

Just at least be glad we still have the liberty to grab a book from history, or listen to a piece of music that was composed before you were born, or look at a piece of art from a goldenage. All these things have the potential of being lost in the future.

Me and my boy Lukey are headed to Chengdu for 15 months where we're going to mix the East and the West in the worst way possible--by sending two private schoolers with no knowledge of the language or culture deep in the heart of the second-tier city. We do have a friend that speaks Chengdu Chinese, and together we're going to write and smoke opium.

No it's great to have our culture and morals disrupted and meaningless materialism put in its place.
The patriarchy sure has done a lot of good things from a tech point of view, but honestly I think that equality was a bad move. Women tend to vote for socialism and refugees that then come and murder and rape them.
>But don't say anything bad about that, because that would be racist and islamaphobic. Tee hee...

Art is as malleable as the human mind.

If man can overcome his own nature so can art.

>le art and culture are dead maymay
Uh huh, keep telling yourself that.

I live in Budapest, how do I find out if it's Veeky Forums approved?

Oh, so you're just an idiot from /pol/. I gotcha.

There you go. Should make it easier to go back to retard land.

Great argument. I suggest you follow that link so you see what is currently going on in Europe. Oh look another day and another Muslim shooter, lets just bury our heads in the sand and hope they don't see us. facepalm.jpg

why would anyone willingly move to where it is numbingly cold, rainy, and grey skies for substantially more than half the year? that's your entire list.

More time to write. Seattle and Dublin in particular are supposed to be great for writers. Not to mention both have good coffee and alcohol cultures for when you need to rush a deadline then ultimately fail. Seattle is #3 on my list of places to move once I'm done school after NYC and Boston.

Oh, almost forgot. Seattle doesn't get that cold.

And this is why literature is dying. Rather than trying to be something new, everyone wants to be some flavor of reactionary. Whether it be the messiah neo-Christ types like DFW or the vanguards of the old ways who are selfish enough to wish for the death of the literature to coincide with their own death. It's all fucking trash. Embrace the fucking the crazy and do something new. Something relevant.

>And this is why literature is dying.
Stopped reading right there.

Which I am sure you have done so many times when the books just get a bit too hard. Amirite?

nah