/lit/ - Literature

>>3952553

Gallomania is unbecoming of a philosopher living today. The French have thoroughly disgraced themselves over the past 200 years and ought not to be given parlance anywhere.

>>3921010
>1) That they are uninterested in you despite the fact that you know more about literature & philosophy than they do. 2) They know nothing about literature themselves.

Well said.

And fuck these bitches, I swear I care bout everything BUT these bitches

>>3476785

>Crass materialism is a kind of subsidence into which one sinks from a protracted lethargy in thinking. ‘Everything is explained from the position and constitution of atoms throughout space, together and in accordance with the immutable laws of the universe’ — there is a fine case of the intellect devalued and swept low in its own estimation of things. Man is truly in a bad way when he aspires to abstract himself altogether from the account of being, as though this ‘abstracting away’ did not presuppose some other consciousness from which one subtracts himself as a spurious aberration, a precipitate which remains over after the solution is distilled, further referencing a special datum which can be reduced to obtain the ultimate kernel of all explanation in itself. But here again is the old routine of undertaking to finish things ‘at one blow’ and have done; as always, the attempt does not come off as one had hoped. Quite the reverse in fact: with materialism one is always put back where one started, wondering after the essential composition of matter, the invariance of cosmological laws and constants, the interference and distorting effect of the observer; so on and on. For the materialist there is no hope; but the sensitive and more spiritual mind that sometimes has dread to think, ‘suppose in the end we are, all in all, no more than chemicals and their manifold reactions?’ should not despair on account of this. It is, as we have said, a postural slouch that the intellect is known to slip or relax occasionally, and a good night of sleep followed by a few brisk morning gymnastics will be enough to recover one’s better form.

>never take the SAT
>don't even bother applying to school
>fuck the whole business, I'm not going
>pursue writing and philosophy independently
>attain to mastery in both; meanwhile my former classmates get stupider and uglier by the day in college
>mfw I cannot contribute anything to this thread