/lit/ - Literature

>>22750616
truth be told I've been considering it too.
people always ask "the Jewish question" of why they're always in power. but at the same time, they tout that they've been kicked out of 109 countries. so my question is "if the Jews are always successful, then it can't be by trickery as apparently, the entire world is """wise""" to it. so why are they still successful?"

in my mind, it has to be their culture. almost everything that we value in Western culture comes from Jewish culture. to me, and the Jews I've seen and spoken too, Judaism as a religion cares less about belief in god and more about the belief in Jewish culture. and despite all the Jews have gone through they still manage to find success in every major field, clearly their culture must be onto something.

Gonna heap even more real on this feel: There are so many smaller, less accessible languages that are only spoken by smaller groups of people or no longer living tongues and only maintained by academics. I feel lucky to speak and read English natively, but there is such a rich body of literature in languages Georgian, Hungarian, Old Irish, Old Norse... and those are just the ones I've made my own shy and uncertain attempts at. They lure you in by seeming exotic, and hold you there by revealing the richness and nuance of their own unique modes of expression. When people ask you why you would learn some language that "you'll never use" they are betraying their own heartbreaking lack of humanity and soul.

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