I was bored and wanted to procrastinate doing thumbnails, so I started a random live stream where I answered your questions. The stream started at 11 PM and we talked about some crazy stuff!
Topics Discussed:
Timestamps:
0:00 – Introduction – What does “literary renaissance” mean?
2:00 – Post-literate Society – Why writing has stagnated while other arts evolved
5:00 – East of Eden & As I Lay Dying – Side-by-side reading plan
7:00 – Nabokov & Lolita – First impressions and stylistic traps
10:00 – The Canon Trap – How expectation ruins great books
13:00 – Jordan Peterson Rant – Artists vs. political pundits
15:00 – Awakening & Simulacra – Philosophical riff on self-awareness
17:00 – Sex & the Second Chakra – Brahmacharya and semen retention
21:00 – Wilhelm Reich & Fascism – Repression, PTSD, and sexual healing
25:00 – Gatsby Slander – A professor destroys a student’s taste
27:00 – There Will Be Blood – Nihilism, cinema, and McCarthy vibes
30:00 – Macbeth Films – Cohen Bros, Denzel, and abstract staging
33:00 – Teaching Names – Shoutouts, Vegas teaching stories, and Asian names
35:00 – The Orchard Keeper – Early McCarthy’s looseness and symbolic rawness
38:00 – Eric Fromm – Love, freedom, and bookshelf nostalgia
40:00 – Synchronicity & Reality Tunnels – “What the thinker thinks…”
43:00 – AI vs Literature – Writing’s deathmatch with artificial creativity
47:00 – Selling Books Like Used Cars – Marketplace reality for authors
50:00 – Upcoming Videos –
53:00 – Hamamoto Conspiracy Dive – Where Professor Hamamoto talks about Ian’s work and how Cormac McCarthy used AI
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