/lit/ - Literature

>>18679311
How can Rousseau seriously write something like that and people take him seriously when they could have gone to America and seen those "noble savages" slaughter entire villages and kidnap schoolchildren for scalpings by themselves?
Thats really what continental Philosophy entails for me; just write what you feel like and hide your lack of evidence or any kind of source behind some elaborate prose.
Well, I guess thats why they say Belphegor is the ambassador to Paris, everything that comes from there is just lazy.