/lit/ - Literature

I live in Boston and know rapture IRL
Otherwise have gone to a couple of readings of famous authors as they pass through the Boston area

>>17501427
this is what i don't understand. here's my experience: i'm a white male who has attended/taught at princeton, nyu, stanford, cornell. i've never once turned in an assignment that deals with identity politics and have been at the top/among the top of my classes/programs since day one. i concentrate on writing sophisticated, original and critical takes on whatever interests the most in any given class. this has never once not been rewarded--and this includes plenty of professors and teachers who are certainly liberal, certainly on the politically "diverse" bandwagon, etc.

WHO THE FUCK IS MAKING YOU WRITE THESE THINGS? that is my question. i know people who study these things, but because they themselves are diverse, have some political stake, etc.--i know plenty more, in poli sci, english, anthropology, classics, etc. etc., that simply dont study politically correct lit, who study this or that random topic.

why are you under the impression that this work doesnt happen, that it cant happen? it simply does. when i was at stanford, the english lit grad students i hung out with were pursuing things like a dissertation on the cross-over of science fiction and comic books in the late 20th century, or the use of color in the works of dickinson, or the emergent role of artistic "perspective" in the development of late renaissance literature, or the role of the letter "K." in Kafka, Mann and Musil, etc. again, sure there were some things like "slave imagery in the works of Melville" but this was part of a massive curriculum and incredible spectrum of academic interests.

how do you all just strawman academia so goddamn much? do you all really just have no original thoughts that arent just regurgitated alt-right conspiracy theories?

jesus my experience is just so radically different from yours. how the fuck did you all fuck up your education so badly? how did you not find people with different interests? be honest with yourselves: did you truly even try?

Which books will help me break free from the matrix?
This is not an ironic post.