/lit/ - Literature

>>20319216
Unfortunately I believe that the two world wars irreversibly damaged society and culture, and our civilisation today, after a two brief moments of prosperity after WWII and the Cold War, is in a downward spiral to inevitable collapse, or at least to something as devastating as the world wars were.

>>19758017
I'm 19, and though I've started to lag a bit in my reading recently I still read a decent amount, mostly classics, but a fair amount of fantasy and science fiction (none of that modern trash though, more works by Peake, the Strugatsky's, Le Guin, the more literary kind of author). However, all but one of my friends don't read regularly, and she's one of those hyper-competent types that can do almost anything they put their mind to. She's learning Latin, Greek, and French too, God, I have no chance. But, I and her are the exceptions I would think, the rest of our generation too enamoured with other, more exciting distractions. Even if they did have the attention span to attend to books and literature (which very few do), what makes books better than videogames, tv shows, or the latest marvel movie? I've tried to get some of my friends to read books at times, with middling success. There just isn't much reason to read anymore unless you grew up with it and had that kind of talent and interest fostered by your parents, a problem that will just compound as the years go by. The current state of learning and education among my peers is one of the few things that can thoroughly depress me.

>>19758373
I don't.