/lit/ - Literature

>>6695146
>One is a blatant confirmation bias for your own normative perspective
I disagree. Strong empires have generally coincided with periods of economic and cultural prosperity, this follows naturally from the establishment of a linguae francae and secured trade roots.

>Seems to exclude empire
I'm borrowing most of my ideas about nations and state building from Gentile and the futurists here, so not really. States are organic organisms and should be examined as such. Languages, if seen as the the manifestation of the polis, would benefit from language reform by allowing civil society to hold a mirror to itself and become self reflective, while at the same time actively (as opposed to passively) shaping itself.
In our globally capitalist ru-ha-ha of a society, this meditated self reflection is especially important on a state level.

>As opposed to the transcosmopolitanism of English as actually used by the international proletariat?
Except the proletariat generally uses regional dialects and slang. Transcosmopolitanism is just consumerism in ethical disguise, and in my part of the globe radical left wing politics walk hand in hand with radical environmentalism and regionalism.

>Do so. It'll make you more interesting
Real mature m8

>>6685370
The reason this is happening is because of education cuts. If Herr Stalin was in charge this wouldn't be happening.

Call SJWs 'leftists' all you want, but they're just putting band-aids on capitalism.

Concisely, the unsung reason for public school is to deprive plebs of their cultural capital and make them easier to control. By not teaching Shakespeare she's doing her job swimmingly, and the only way she could improve would be to attempt to teach Shakespeare and sully the great man for her entire class.

>>6685440
The difference is, mass culture is seen as "white". The reality is of course that it's a manifestation of capitalism and has nothing to do with the great European traditions of art. The one is seen as the same and so on and society suffers at the ugly maws of consumerism.

What's truly hypocritical however is the fact that I, and my peers, growing up in a small town in Canada, were never given privy to the great civilizations that existed before European conquest. For thousands of years Native tribes had settled the very purlieu I live in and carry about my affairs in today, yet I scarcely understand their myths and language. The entire new world, with perhaps the exception of Mexico, is culturally castrated because it attempts to live on the brink of history.

>Be 18
>Constant feelings of alienation and anxiety
>Unable to reconcile my megalomania with the extreme mediocrity of public school
>Can't find any meaning in contemporary society
>tfw unable to find validation for my angst because teenagers are exposed to feel this way

Rousseau helps ebb the ennui if you're looking for suggestions. Bataille, weirdly enough, makes me feel strangely optimistic as well.