/lit/ - Literature

>>13497429
Thank you, now go read Visions of Gerard.

Don't want to open a thread for this.

To the Anons who told me to read Berlin Alexanderplatz when I asked about it (it was like a month ago), I want to say thank you. It's fantastic. I will definitely reread it in the future.

>>13463017
I applaud you.

>>13175236
It doesn't work out because it's selective. You scroll past posts that blow you the fuck out and pinpoint the ones where you feel like you are educating the person with your views. That behavior is at least on par with an echo chamber, because even though you are in contact with the opposite viewpoint, you only really engage with the one that you can win against.

There's also something I've asked myself while sniffing around and reading material about Machiavelli. There's one thing Machiavelli allows you to do, to go completely apolitical. Just to fuck off if you don't like politics, so you are out of the equation and the ones who want to rule are free to do so. I've asked myself, in what part of the whole equation does the political discussion on the internet fit? Even though this is an American board, there are people posting from all over the world, so there is the option that the multicultural environment serves to recruit people for the respective ideological party in their own country, which then gets reflected as an increase of votes for the party. I can back up this argument with the right-wing chain reaction across Europe, but it would be a long shot because it's the equivalent of taking chances if someone really planned it.

It's interesting to think that the internet takes you out of the equation, making you politically irrelevant by letting you discuss politics. I can back this up a little with mentioning Leo Strauss's contrast of modern vs ancient politics. There's the rule of the wise in the ancient world and the concern of modern politics, the question of what the fuck to do with the intellectuals. The answer of modern politics is "Let them talk, no one is gonna listen to them." So they are, through the internet, letting the "intellectuals" talk.

I have some more to say about the topic, but I forgot at least half of it while writing this. I'll chime in once I remember.