/lit/ - Literature

Love is real. I'm sorry.

>>19267381
i think women have a greater transcendental capacity than men, but it's extremely rare for one of them to tap into 10% of it in her lifetime. the existence of simone weil will always perplexe me.
i met someone like that a little while ago. asian woman, really eloquent and sincerely enthusiastic, was nerding out over vuillard and kierkegaard intensely, then proceeded to make some of the most lucid statements about responsibility, education, detachment, and visual literacy that i've ever heard in my entire life. i was amazed the whole way through. and what's more interesting is that almost every other person in our age range is a buzzword robot infected with memes and other copy and paste method of communication, but there wasn't a single trace of that in our long conversation. it was all very clear. i wish i had gotten her name before she left, but we were both under this romantic, in a purely literary sense, impulse to not divulge any personal information except writing our own intiials down in each others notebooks. i think she will make a great mother.
women can be so pure sometimes. a shame that most of them tend to be pitiful.

>>18906812
you know what's really saddening man? i live in one of those countries, and there's been a dramatic shift in people's (surface-level) economical views with the very rapid invasion of the internet, where they are now clamoring for the same systems applied in the first world to be implemented here, especially among those of my generation (twenty somethings) and i imagine it's going to be even worse with the next crop of net-babies. they've been tricked, thanks to short sightedness, a considerable level of inferiority complex, the technological machine, into believing that the dehumanizing nature of contemporary western society is the best solution to their problems. so many of these folks want to sacrifice a relatively honorable life into one where they can finally get their precious designer clothes & chain restaurants. the staunch supporters of that system tend to already be quite suicidal and, i don't like saying this, lacking in the human spirit which springs all things original and beautiful, and when i point out that what they're calling for will only make matters worse, i am met with dismissal.
It really depresses me bros. I truly believe that those of us who were fortunate enough to be somewhat detached from the gray, dull machinery of modernity can find a way to forge an alternative way of life that sincerely respects human life, by effectively retaining our own identity, heritage, and sense of community, while avoiding the pratfalls of contemporary western living thanks to rigorous studying. I don't want to see a future where my brothers and sisters kill themselves due to an alienation that they chose to bring. I don't want to reach the age of 65, and see the country i loved so much be continuously diluted into nothing but insulting parody, devoid of any real value.
I really love human beings, not just those with whom i share my blood & land, but anybody who is earnestly trying to make it. I feel a lot of grief when i read about westerners losing all hope due to the incredibly sad nature of their environment, so the grief will see a tenfold increase when i witness the last few bastions of respect have the soul choked out of them by that which spits a radioactive phlegm on dignity, which is globalism.

i love hammershoi a lot

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