/lit/ - Literature

Why is /lit/ so meek, self-pitying, and needlessly humble?

A sense of profound self-confidence to the point of delusion is something you'll find in most great artists. J D Salinger in his first interview in his early 20s said he expected to be no less than the greatest American writer of his century. Yukio Mishima quit his job at 23 and promised his father to be the best Japanese writer of his time. Adolf Hitler refused to become a clerk in the civil service as his father wanted him to be and instead suffered poverty and misery as an unemployed bohemian in Vienna before making it big. I can name others. But even by avoiding full-time work and focusing on their art most great writers communicated their ambition to be far more than some mediocre Sunday Painter. Van Gogh refused to work after the age of 27 and openly told his brother that he felt he deserved to be given money because of his talents. Lead Singer Syndrome, referring to the megalomaniacal behavior of a band's lyricist / lead singer is a consequence of their self-confidence and a by-product of their immense talent and ambition. The greatest footballers are often described as overly-demanding and stubborn. The fact is if you want to be more than anonymous and mediocre in this world you have to demand more out of life than what is afforded most people. You will be accused of being ungrateful, of being childish, of being delusional and pretentious, but only by asserting your demand to succeed will you ever do so. Take me for example. I am 36 years old and have never had a job. My mother supports my artistic ambition and has done so for around 20 years at this point. I simply refuse to be cajoled into working some dead-end, energy-sapping job when I could be using that same time and energy to produce the greatest works of art our species has to offer.

>/lit/ continually attacks the past 70 years of Art, Literature, Cultural output etc. in the world
>/lit/ continually shouts down any reactionary or traditionalist view in a thread

Hm, really makes you think...

When did you realise people only attack Islam because it's the last bastion of Tradition and that when people speak of Western ""Civilisation"", what they're actually referring to is Capitalist/Socialist Modernity?

When did you realise people only attack Islam because it's the last bastion of Tradition and that when people speak of Western ""Civilisation"", what they're actually referring to is Capitalist/Socialist Modernity?

I just can't 'get into' it.

>be me
>attend an elite university
>university union is apparently one of the best in the world at debating
>attend three debates
>all of them are shit and posses no class, taste or brevity about them
>mfw this is modern day education

Was there ever a more apt time to self-educate than now?

Any books to get over women and advice on how to become chaste?

I'm tired of these dumb whores.

Are you all losers who feel the need to display a false kind of masculinity to compensate for your sheer lack of intellect? Inane conversation and posturing without any authenticity or a slight modicum of humility and sincerity?

Pretty embarrassing!

I have never lost an argument with any of you losers and I never will. Not in any capacity nor any chat!

*Steps on your heads*

>mfw people attend University instead of reading stickies and wikis on 4chan and Reddit

>be me
>sitting in class
>lecturer unironically uses Wikipedia as a source in his powerpoint slides but tells us not to use Wikipedia in our essays

Explain to me why you still attend Academia?

>>9193560
>blames buddhism for its subversion by/alliance with authoritarian regimes
>mfw such blatant broad strokes

How do you deal with the fact you can never safely say "I am this!" and are constantly moving from ideology to ideology day by day as you are presented with different arguments?

>tfw anything I write or say my heart isn't in it

>>9159597
> demands to know why Russell is bad at philosophy
> holds up Principia as "philosophy"
>mfw

Friendly reminder to abandon Academia and obtaining a literary degree in favour of Autodidacticism.

>tfw I've gotten to that point in my intelligence where I don't care what anyone in real life thinks of me because I'm a genius

>>9112445
>mfw "logic" is still positivism's discredited unicorn of an ideal language to some ppl

>tfw modern-day genius but none of my University professors will help me with my publications because they're jealous

>>9096325
>I've been teaching philosophy for 15 years and never really read anything "analytic", j

>mfw I'm not even 25 and I know more philosophy than a lecturer

brainlets cant compete

>>9090156
>continental-analytic distinction

Friendly reminder to abandon Academia and obtaining a literary degree in favour of Autodidacticism.

>tfw I stopped browsing 4chan for 6 months and have finally completed my first novel

Why are you still posting on this shit site?

>tfw there are more books in my HDD than the entire continent of Africa

>tfw everyone thinks I'm a lefty SJW but I'm actually a fully-fledged right-wing traditionalist who believes in Tolstoyan Christianity
>tfw I'll never be able to obtain a literary career because people in the future will just edit my wikipedia page and claim I was a lefty
>tfw Hell truly is OTHER people