/lit/ - Literature

>>21903610
>The decline narrative is played out and mostly false (not to say we are always in an upward trajectory, just that history fluctuates and is generally difficult to pin down in grandiose terms)

I’m trying to think of a particular saying/question. It’s a philosopher or something being asked what the weather is like in Athens or maybe Jerusalem, the response is something to the effect of “what does it matter” but not quite. Anyone know what the fuck I’m on about?

why did darl set the barn on fire?

I literally can't write unless my mental health is in order

>>20201515
>penguin classics

>It's another boomers complain about Zoomers thread
Literally every generation does this. Your cope is going to be 'but it is!' even though the generation before you thought you were all hopeless retards in a crash collision with self destruction. You have nothing to say besides children are stupid (This is universally true regardless of generation) or that the majority of people aren't interested in what you are.

>>19367115
>There is essentially no ideology in question at the time that someone else other than raskolnikov would use to justify his actions for him.
Are you fucking retarded or what? Nihilism>morality is arbitrary>the advantages of murdering an abusive old lady nobody likes outweigh the disadvantages in every rational aspect>if the former is true, the only thing possibly stopping one from doing it is cowardice and fear of deviating from social customs
How fucking hard is that? I literally went through these ideas when I turned 12 and learned some people don't believe in god and you think nobody was thinking this some quarter of a decade before Nietzsche wrote the gay science?

Books on how to escape eliminative materialism? I want meaning to be real but it seems like everything we can process has a computer like material substrate. I understand Plato's forms but it somehow doesn't convince me that reality is greater than materialism.

I'm unsure as to why I just spend 16 or so gruelling minutes watching this tripe, and yet I did in some kind of daze.

The irony of her calling 1984 "like, DENSE" isn't lost on me.

>>18138554
>tfw Bookdepository CEO who is in for tax evasion is in the same cell block

>>15090523
Hehehe