/lit/ - Literature

>be me 2019
>decide to read philosophy
>decide to start with the greeks
>decide in order to understand plato I need to understand his historical context so read a dozen supplementary ancient historical texts
>read Plato
>decide I need to understand him better before reading Aristotle
>start reading academic scholarly texts and essays the size of novels to understand Plato
>start rereading plato to understand the academics
>realize it's been 3 years and I've read nothing but ancient greek platonic texts and no other philosophy
>realize I didn't really get anything out of plato
>but it was fun

What are your isms?

>>14470575
I did that once I felt like a prisoner. I got the sense of being a domesticated animal. Those corporate jungles are one dimensional in spirit. Disneylands in all but name. The shops blared the same garbage radio friendly music, strategically placed there by university trained psychologist assholes to make sure nothing but the most neutered emotions persists in its listeners. Also everything was marked up in price. I honestly wish I could chimp out and burn the place. I would love to smell the commodities burn and appropriate a old pagan god in that very spot.

What are some light reading books that are not for manchildren? Sometimes I cannot devote a full brain to my book like if I'm tired on a plane or something, and don't want to open some dense treatise. Yet even still, I would not waste my time on genre fiction.

Post an excerpt from something you've written.

>>5898994