/lit/ - Literature

>>19900721
If you're so smart, why don't you have two girlfriends?

>>19397469
The understanding I used to have, is that anime girls are an ideal expression of how we (humans) want to express the female form. That real woman are a fundamentally flawed version of woman, and that anime girls are our expression of how we want them to look and behave. However, under a platonic metaphysical system, this is actually the opposite of the case. Anime girls are actually a further degradation of the ideal female form.

Plato's world of perfect forms is essentially the highest (most Godly) realm. Everything that reflects a form and manifests in our lower reality is an incomplete copy of that perfect original. Because we humans are also imperfect creatures, nothing we create or conceive of can ever be above us. Meaning everything we create is a further degradation of the original form. Since we ourselves only have an incomplete appreciation of a form, seeing it through the flawed lens of reality. When we create, we are basing things off of that incomplete image. Because anime girls are created by us, it means that they are an expression of our flawed conception of woman.

Anime girls are an even further degradation of the ideal (ineffable) platonic form of woman than real 3D woman are. Under Plato's metaphysical system it would look like this:
Platonic form of woman > Real woman (which to some degree reflect God's image) > Anime woman (which reflect man's image, not God's)

Just bought Tricky Dick's book Leaders
Anything similar to recommend, /lit/? I'm interested in the topic (not interested in reading about faggy FAGMAN-type CEOs though)