/lit/ - Literature

>>9194156
We were talking about culture and identity, not borders, but even borders change all the time.
Even among friendly neighbours, border disputes are often resolved by giving and taking. It's only the 90s that many new countries were created and border were re-drawn after the fall of Communism.

And nations have a shared identity and language, I never said we shouldn't have those either, I'm saying that it isn't healthy to demand that neither of these things change, or forcing a return to an era that has nothing to do with the current political and social climate.

>You just want us invaded by ebil Muslims!
How are you going to defend a singular national identity and culture when there are so many different identities and cultures, even within the most homogeneous societies?

Read some criticisms of your own political ideas for fucks sake.

>>9194188
Ofcourse there are certain basic ideas, but even the most basic ideas of any culture have had very different interpretations throughout history. Take the Bible for example, we have an entirely different idea based on our current culture, social climate, and thousands of other factors that all modify the way we look at the bible.

This thread is hurting my brain, start with the Greeks?

How to grow up:

1. Being an adult is soothing in some ways, you can spend your time on things that truly matter, the other side of the coin is that the sacrifices you've made to get there are a pyrrhic victory.

2. Life is never the same when you stop being a child, it's just that nobody tells you how much is really required to become an adult.

3. Balance the forces, deliberate on the aspects of your life and the effects they have on eachother, don't preoccupied with pop-culture like a manchild, but don't spend your entire life reading books like a shut-in

4. Man's life is an inherent struggle for heroism, men want to be like the heroic knight killing the dragon, and at the end a woman waiting for him to settle down and have a materialistic life. Life is always meant to be lived to the fullest, but none of us actually do.
There's not going to be a dragon to slay, almost nobody is meant for greatness, but the woman is still there waiting, just take the shortcut, stop chasing your dragon, and stop dreaming like a 12 year old.