/lit/ - Literature

>implying you can convince the mindless horde of positivist materialist moderns to read anything edifying to the soul lest it turn out to be "useless"
99% of zoomers are so entrenched in the nexus of scientific materialist nihilism they can't imagine sitting down to engage with something abstract or conceptual. Self-reflection, any philosophical or spiritual engagement is automatically slandered as "useless" if it doesn't enable wage-earning, GDP growth (increase levels of mud and coom ad infinitum), or some utopian political goal ("equality" and maximising pleasure like a pig in shit). Metaphysics don't exist, everything is made of mud and coom, epistemology can be substituted for "trusting the science", ethics can be substituted for blind obedience to the technocratic clergy of salesmen and scientists. Observe even the disdain for poetry in this thread, abstraction, intuition, feeling is just seen as a useless artifice that stands in the way of the utilitarian, prosaic, expository. I know a HANDFUL of people my age that appreciate literature, but I think poetry and philosophy in particular are being relegated to some sort of fusty pastime that racist white men used to indulge in. The modern world has manipulated the psyche into repressing the introverted functioning of the mind and privileging the extraverted functions of action, physicality, engaging with sensory world ONLY, in order to enable more mindless productivity. And zoomers fucking fall for it hook, line and sinker.