/lit/ - Literature

>>4229597

And Bloom's the parent with the champion-sprinter child who doesn't want participation medals handed out.

>>4039962

You can tell the difference between a Richard Yates and a Stephanie Meyer in less than a page. Besides,

>Implying you oughtn't adhere slavishly to the canon, putting your faith in the venerable intellectual institutions of the past

>>3884521

I love you, /pol/ly baby, but I just can't talk to you when the other kids are around. I have a reputation.

>>3864380

And this is the prevailing attitude among undergraduates the world over. Get some negative capability, dullard.

>A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing;
>Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:
>There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,
>And drinking largely sobers us again.

these 4 lines are the most relevant to browsers of /lit/.

the fedora thread and the
>meeting a person over 20 who never read a book
thread made me open this thread.

reading a little bit IS WORSE than reading nothing at all for many reasons, and it's why people who are actually educated look down on dilettantes.
reading a little bit allows you all the benefits of being smug that comes with actually putting in the effort that comes with becoming learned in a subject.
it's this kind of faux education that leads to /r/atheists and /lit/ browsers (you really aren't much better, you're ignorance is just a bit more dressed up by having read a half dozen more books).

There's also that bit in Plato where Socrates is said to be the wisest man because he's the only one who knows that he doesn't know. It takes FAR more wisdom to come to grips with knowledge of what you do and don't know than it does to parrot some clever, sophisticated opinions gleaned from German philosophy books.