/lit/ - Literature

I have consciously stolen and/or reworked ideas and phrases from these threads. I have no idea why anyone would ever put their serious work on here. If you do, then you can only blame yourself when you finally get that manuscript off to a publisher, and a deep plagiarism search brings up that oh-so-profound turn of phrase in one of my cheap literotica novellas.

No. Reading things has made me realize everyone else is uneducated simpletons who would prefer to watch tv and drink away their problems instead of taking any action to do anything. It’s as if all of human history has been forgotten in the past 40 years. Radio stations still say 80s, 90s, and today. It’s been today for a long time and the placated masses have forgotten what happened yesterday. The more I read the more I know that I don’t know anything. I have a JD and all it’s proven is the vast amount of information that could be useful for others that no one cares exists. The same is to be said of philosophy and literature. It’s as if the corpse of humanity had been gutted and hollowed in exchange for profit and mass propaganda sedating everyone. I fall victim to it. People I know who are smarter than I fall for it. Consumption of product designed to appeal to the widest audiences has given everyone the audacity to believe they know what is best. There is no experience anymore. The democratization of fact has poisoned the discourse. Those in power have structured it as such. The world becomes gelatinous, a sand pit where the more you struggle against it, the deeper you sink. Reading has be nothing but a burden on me. It is a curse, for now I see no other activity as having nearly as much merit.