/lit/ - Literature

What in the world happened to things being considered either "cool" or "uncool/lame/gay"? Like, there were movies, books, and lifestyles that were cool, and there were others that were gay. And you didn't have to describe why something was bad in coherent, logical terms. You just called it uncool and chucked it into the lame-hole. Now, when people describe their taste in whatever (politics and lit especially), it is always done in a way that would impel a healthy man to shove the speaker in question into a locker. Talking about philosophy and aesthetics and shit. One should them a purple-nurple to get them to shut the fuck up about this dumb nerd stuff.

Where did this binary go? What replaced it? What are some cool books? When will pic related return to save us from this?