/lit/ - Literature

Should we teach philosophy in schools? What variety of authors should be introduced to students?

What's interesting about this, to me personally, is that there would definitely be a time when I would allow this list (even if it's mostly written as a joke) to get to me on some level. Now, to my own surprise, I'm getting pretty indifferent to shit like that, and I can never get myself to care that much I encounter them.

I can't tell if this is me growing up or just giving up.

What do you guys say when you meet these people (who seem to be in the majority) who think rapping is a proper substitute for poetry, that comedians are the new cultural critics, that listening to post-rock is the equivalent of listening to classical music, and so on?

It's like they don't realise how, trying to "elevate" popular formats by comparing them to "classical" ones, they always end up devaluing the latter.

>>6695460
>don't learn to think critically because it can make you unpopular

>>6628476
Jesus Christ.

>>6360058
Please expand in both of these points because I have no fucking idea of what you're trying to say but you seem smart, and rec books on the subject

>hanging out with some college students
>they keep complaining about how much they were having to study due to the testing period
>i get curious because i never went to college
>ask them about their studying habits
>the most dedicated one was studying about 3 hours per day
>mfw

How long do you read/study per day, /lit/?

I'm basically on a perpetual reading mode. I only stop to go to work, take a dump and eat. And sometimes shitpost here.

What do you guys think of the idea of forcing your way through books that are nearly impossible to you?

For example, if someone doesn't know anything about German, philosophy or economics maybe it could be good for him to tank his way through Das Kapital with the assistance of a dictionary, a philosophy encyclopedia and online databases ready to assist him?

I like to take notes on everything I read, and depending of the subject it can demand a lot more than simple text, but Word is the only software I know that can do certain gimmicks and it's simply not doing it for me anymore.

It's too slow, the visuals are bad and I don't use 10% of the available tools, which keep visually polluting the screen.

What do you guys use?

So, I'm a leftist.

I'm not only a leftist, I'm the whole package. I'm what a Daily Mail reader who quotes Churchill imagines a leftist to be.

I'm green, pro-political correctness, a secularist, a pacifist, a feminist and to some degree a marxist. I support immigration just for the hell of it, because I hate the idea of nations merely reflecting ethno-linguistic groups. I'm a vegetarian. I usually vote for parties that proposes a socially progressive welfare state, but I think it's not enough and if we really want to progress as a species, the replacement of market anarchy with rational planning and some degree of common ownership instead of liberal capitalism are essential. I think comedians like Jim Norton and Adam Carolla sound petty and desperate. I think Tarantino should lay off the word "nigger".

This is the thread where you will recommend me literature that will help me out of this orthodoxy in any way you can. I never liked the idea of being 100% on one side, so I think I can afford a few concessions.

I'm not talking about rants on immigrants and how leftists just want "things for free!", and I'm not talking about Milton Friedman youtube clips. I want to know what the intelligent right-winger reads. Anything that can change my position on a certain question is valid, therefore I welcome right-wing views on abortion, climate change, any particular war in recent history, economics, philosophy, nationalism, pacifism, capitalism, socialism, feminism, marxism, multiculturalism, capital punishment, religion, etc. The best right-wing pieces of literature you've read, I want it.

I'm sure I can count on you.

>>2663268
>tend to go to /pol/ and the liberal children tend to come to /lit/

I don't think there's any way around it. The leftists on 4chan are, by far, the most intelligent user base this site has ever seen.

>>2602733
What a gentleman.

Besides Max Stirner and Ayn Rand, what other writers fought for our right to be scumbags?

>this thread
This is why I believe it's almost like a moral obligation to get as many people into good music, films and books as I can. If someone around me demonstrates interest or taste for any of those, I'll do everything I can to help them find their way through it.

This is also why I hate when people are elitist and protective about art as if they owned it. I've always thought that maybe if people weren't such snobs with literature, more people would care about it.