/lit/ - Literature

>>13659440
>modernism's natural form is democracy
That’s ego. The republic established less than 300 hundred years ago is already falling apart. So much for the “natural” form of democracy.

The fundamental mistake made by those who choose weak methods of control is to assume that the abscence of control is left to the individual, when in fact it is left to other conditions.

>>13504799
>You can afford a 1914 standard of living
Except for in anything that matters.
>DUDE JUST ENJOY YOUR KEK WORK, VIDYA, AND WOKE NETFLIX

>>13505311

>>13285850
Not him but having sex to make friends is a horrible argument for it and just speaks how low we've come as a society
It leaks over into having sex to get a job etc
General social discourse has fallen so far and you can read any older novels to get a feel how intricate they were. Everything is just lowest common denominator shock socialities

>>13272953
Yeah Aristotle made an interesting distinction as well. He said there was a noble type of, rule of 1, rule of few, rule of many.

The positives were the when the rulers worked for everyone, the negative, for rule of many, was placing the poor above the rest of the population.

>>13272063
U give them rights the obv happens