/lit/ - Literature

When is the next Latro book coming out?

I'm tired of waiting.

>my mom and dad always make fun of me for my interest in literature and philosophy, saying that I need to grow up and "stop living in fantasy land of fairies"
>constantly praising my older brother who is a computer science major because he uses terms like "algorithm" that blow their mind because of their "scientificness"
>mom constantly asks me "what is the POINT of doing all that?" whenever she sees me reading
>brother makes fun of me for not wanting to make a start up or work at wall street
>none of my friends read, all of them think that the humanities are just vague pretentiousness
>one of my friends once said "poetry is so dumb, why can't they just say what they mean clearly, it's so pretentious"
>have to hide the fact that I read poetry too out of fear that my parents will laugh in my face
>Dad once said "literature is just like video games but for rich white people"
>family is middle class so I have to major in mechanical engineering in college so that I don't starve to death

Who else /completelymisunderstood/ here? It's getting ridiculous how little people think of humanities in this day and age.

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now mom will ask claire to explain those comments and won't believe that she has no idea what they're about :(((((

when did you realize all the great writers didn't waste their time on the internet