/lit/ - Literature

>>22029680
because Im tired of women’s word salad. It’s so fucking obvious that OP is a femanon. Walls of text with zero cohesion but a lot of smart person words. Makes you sound like a man, ain’t that right sweetie? An actual smart man has a system of thought that he compares to others’, which is how a debate goes. This whole thread is OP attention whoring on 4chan bc she’s too fat and crazy to have Chad listen to this shit irl. I’ve known too many women in academia, they all have the exact same modus operandi. Create an illusion of intelligence by flaunting jargon and qualifications while making your opponent sound dumb so that everyone around pats her on her childish head and says “good girl.” That’s women’s goal, not searching for truth through a Socratic dialogue.

>>21979185
>likes of McCarthy
He didn't get traction until well past 40. It's the same as music -- there's always great things going on, you're just not in the limited market loop to catch wind of it, and neither are the music studios/publishers whom have dropped the ball on proactively scouting talent with human intelligence + taking risks on it, versus the Boomer facilitated lazy version of swooping in on established acts that have grinded through those early filters.

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>>21979339
>There’s basically no market for that anymore
And it's the exclusive domain of ne'er-do-well haute bourgeois MFAs where there are such monetization opportunities that remotely approximate that.

>>21979380
Book deals are a routine payoff and money laundering modality. No one reads this shit, and trees die for nothing.

>>21979780
>Film has risen to be the dominant cultural art form
The return to theater may be an atavistically good thing, but it has more in common with poetry than prose when it does everything right. The ones that aim at what the novel does end up looking like Haneke.

>>21979859
The likes of Peter Thiel yanking funny money out of Pandora Papers tier Silicon Valley Bank runs may be a good sign of Astroturf going the way of the dodo.

>>21980298
>a race of bug men who's only real raison d'etre is to make the numbers of them and their patron's portfolios go up
>the force of blood will overcome the force of money
It is in the end as Mao said, and these Foxes are in for a rude awakening by those Wolves holding both real power and the moral high ground to dispose of them however they see fit. This is not Red-posting.

>>21980343
This is an idyllic limited hangout fantasy that will garantee a breakaway civilization rules like unto gods behind the scenes with what is effectively UFO grade tech as automation facilitates the retrograde slide of civilization as the capital basis the biomass represented is no longer required.

>>21981406
>more men are born following wars
There are epigenetic cues with societal stressors - like the world war - precipitating such things.

>>21981666
>checked
Joseph Suglia, Table 41. It's about Chicago and an entire novel of a Thalidomide Kid episode from The Passenger.

>>21981850
>civil unrest occurred between a large body of students and the campus police, which was then covered by major news outlets
The Berlin Wall settled nothing and we are living the prolonged hangover of the Cold War because of half measures by Silent to Boomer generations.

>>21984857
>t. infant mortality zombie.

>>21988650
>It really appears that this post-modern world has no space for literature
Silent reading was a regression. Literature - poetry - must be heard and spoken. ~ Nietzsche on prose composition ancient vs. breathless modern.

>>21989745
What passes for 'philosophy' has nothing to do with wisdom, metis, or the exercise of will so as not to be compelled by one's inferiors. They're intellectual fidget spinners