/lit/ - Literature

>guns, germs, and steel, The Door into summer, the great passage... and other masterpieces

What is the white male fart porn of lit?

How are redditors so fucking unfashionable?

>>8207239
>an SAT score raising classic

Is it wrong to steal from small bookshops?

My local one has outrageous prices for some shit (7 dollars for some penguin classic from the 90s) and there's never enough people watching that I steal shit.

It’s literally just that Marxism and postmodernism is popular with academics because they are systems of ideas that are really easy to be obscurantist but are not conceptually difficult. So academics who had struggled in Calc for Business Majors 1 need something to make themselves sound smart and sophisticated

>North Korean novel
>famine scene

>>7219259
>any of the Henry VI plays
>not some of the worst shakespeare works
>mfw

>>7108674
Read the book.

>>7070681
>lesbianus, you defecate and you write "Hello everyone!"

>>6989431
One time I did five hits of acid and I felt exactly like Daenerys Targaryen.

I'm a dude tho

The Prince should be considered the first work of modernity. It sincerely presents the horrors of humanism.

>>6909405
was someone literally so mad at logic that they made an image macro?

>>6896705
>Found some quotes that were so memorable I wrote them down. "my asshole is doing more to keep me alive than my brain" and "Brought product to surface of Mars, it stopped working. 0/10" Gold


Why did i look? I knew it would be bad.

>>6800366
>want to watch big sleep
>get the Robert Mitchum version

Im so fucking retarded

Notes from the neet basement of piss bottles

I honestly believe that capitalism is something we need to deal with intellectually; and this is because it has already been demonstrated it can be included more effectively into authoritarian states than it can be into democratic ones.
The patriarchy insofar that it ever was used to enforce power under capitalism was just a cultural boon, and feminists have spent decades throwing their bodies at the sword of patriarchy only for capitalism to set it down when dull, and pick something else up.

Capitalism incentivizes so much bad shit for humans, and there is zero reason to conclude that it is the final end-all-be-all organizational method for human production.
It's such a natural thing to want to talk about. But that all being said; the discussion, if you could ever call it that, has become so polluted that no matter how rational or reasonable your position the guilt by association is such a titanically crushing burden that you will never be heard outside an echo chamber of left ideology.

What makes the nightmare worse is the echo-chamber has slowly been filled with subversive ideologies and professional victims.

We need to return to Hegel and start over.


On a side note, can anyone explain to me why the last volley of french thinkers who fuck around with existentialism, post-structural, linguistics etc. Why do they all inspire such fucking retards?

Most of these people when you read them are not saying anything all that radical towards anything besides capitalism. Even Foucault reads as if he was a closet christian, and he certainly believed in definite meanings in many of his books.

Is it just an epidemic of misreading? Where does this POMO=anything goes no meaning generalization come from? I'm more and more starting to believe that these failures of social revolution, which are only folded into capitalism once they occur, are further proof that we are fucking about with the wrong issues.

I'm sincerely worried that philosophy has fucked up and lost its general credibility. Science is in the reigns of capitalism, and the likelihood that it will save us without proper guidance is very low.

China is forming the new Epoch of voltron ideology with capitalism the body and eastern totalitarian communism as the head.

We are so fucked.

>>6666093
teach me of the meme toad oh wise one

>>6636434
>the aeneid
>greeks
are you being really subtle?