/lit/ - Literature

>>23283312
>implying words are a sufficient medium to communicate ideas

>>22977989
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>>22977989

If you have to explain to someone the use of learning ancient languages (which used to be self evident to the middle and upper classes), then they wont even understand your explanation. We have been in Idiocracy territory for 50 years now.

It's a hopeless endeavor with even my university educated friends, they just dont get it. I simply pretend my hobbies are watching bullshit on Netflix and buying junk on Amazon and we get along fabulously. I've learned to completely avoid the tiresome conversations where they hostilely demand justification for learning "dead languages"; none of them can even explain what that means or why it's advantageous for a language to be dead.

tldr; you dont have to justify shit to nobody

>>22954406
It's you. You are the midwit OP. You are also a huge faggot.

>>22397498
Dude the people reading the books grew up with the characters, as did the kids in the movie, as did Rowlings own writing. It's nothing but a story of growth and hardship, that we all undertook together.

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>>19553684
I find even the most “attractive” porn stars to be subpar, and drawn pornography always looks like shit.

>>19400716

>>18916505
The end of religion and of eschatology means the end of expectation directed towards the future. Man thus stands before an absolute void. Such is the position of nihilism, which throughout the West has ceased to be a mere philosophic position and has become a reality of the streets and marketplaces. It is an attitude of desperation. All theologies, "isms", and programmes which not long ago possessed Messianic force hang like cobwebs over the rubble and ruins of the age.

Being deprived of history, however, does not mean having nothing to look forward to! It means that expectation, formerly directed to the future that is Far Off and Ahead, is beginning to move back into the vertical and to be directed "Upwards". Striving to escape from the void of this material world and the despairing conspect of nothingness, man is waiting for all the things he lacks today: a new saner experience and the fullness of a new inner living.

If this transformation in the depths of Western man is associated with external manifestations which lead us to assume a Decline and Fall of the West, the assumption is itself an outcome of pessimistic eschatology, and does not correspond to the truth. For in truth Western man is starting a new epoch in the history of mankind by beginning a search for inner transformation, renewal, rebirth. That is the only essential question before mankind, and it will condition the next centuries. All else is unimportant.

>>18645388

Is it illegal to sell books on lulu etc. which portray themselves as some honest "academic" -style studies and first 20 pages or something would be actual content, but the rest of you would just kinda like write some gibberish like adgdfsfsadgzfccxsjdgusdusdifjsdiofjsdiogjsdiogjsdoigj so as to maintain the page length like +200?

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