/lit/ - Literature

>>9964325
>Why is contemporary literature so fucking bad?
Because the nature of scholarship has changed completely. Many of the best writers enjoyed classical educations, their upbringings and literary conditioning is/was VASTLY different and superior to those of people today. Who do you think will have better discipline form and understanding, someone whose entire life was saturated in intellectual pursuit or someone who went to public school? At best we're all dilettantes by comparison to those who came before, when it really meant something to both write and read.