/lit/ - Literature

Index cards.
Why would you need anything other than index cards?

If you want to know where human rights mostly come from, it's from atrocities.

Humans witness these horrible things happening to themselves and others, and say. "Okay, we should really make a rule that says that shit shouldn't happen any more." and then it takes generations for it to be adopted into the zeitgeist to where humans born and raised in modern society just accept that women have a right to vote or that slavery is abhorrent, thinking that it is natural and obvious, and forgetting that it had to be debated and fought over in the past. It just feels natural for them to believe that women should have the right to vote. Not because they've decided that on their own, and not because of their religion, but because it's been collectively decided by society that that's what we're going to do.

It is only then, after the moral has become collectively accepted, that people, upon questioning their morality, which was socialized, ie conditioned into them by their entire environment, will look for a rational, a justification for why they believe that something is correct, and if they are off a society that ascribes morality as an accomplishment of religion they will say, it's because of religion, whether they are religious or not, and whether or not the moral is actually reflected in the religious material or not.

Because people would rather believe that society is built on a solid foundation, any solid foundation, even one built on an absurd text, then to believe that society is loose and shifting and that they themselves are malleable.

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Yes and no,
Catch 22 is funny and you can have a lot of fun with it, doing clever things. But don't limit yourself to just a rote analysis of the concept.
You want to do better than that, take Catch 22 and analyze it as a metaphor for all kinds of frustrating futility, the easiest would be war, but you can stretch it further.
Take Washington Irving. The name used in the book, He argued for copyright protection, there's a paragraph right there, you can argue that copy right enforcement stifles creativity and communication which is the very thing that it is supposed to protect. But on the other hand without copyright protection the authors cannot profit from their work and creativity an communication is stifled. There's a Catch 22 right there, crudely arranged, but enough to be used as an example, if not the core example of the paper.
Professors love creativity, and when you take your paper's thesis to creative places, you can usually get away with being lazier on the details, finding several generalized examples that fit your theme, instead of researching one ironclad argument that you can found your paper on. And you can pad the paper by having to spend time explaining the relations between the work and your concept.
Try taking the paper and analyzing the characters according to their reactions to nonsense,

Haiku's in English
No Japanese Syllables
It's not a challenge

When you make words fit,
Without much difficulty
In tight sets nicely ordered

The rules of English
Come with their own arrangements
For you to defeat.

Working against these
Under pressure comes beauty
Lines of refined Thought.

Not exactly,
He is overhyped, but that's not his fault.
The main problem is that he doesn't outline or do a lot of revision on the edit, preferring to write as it comes. Resulting in a lot of anti-climactic endings.
It's bad enough that over a third to a half of his stuff is crap...
But.
He is so prolific, that cutting off the crap still leaves a lot of really good stories.
And what he does do well, he does really well.
There was a thread a couple of months back about putting together a recommendation image for Stephen King, cutting the wheat from the chaff. But nothing ever came from it.
Come to think of it, I should do it myself when I get a block of time.
King understands how to get a reader inside a character's head. He understands tension and terror, (not horror, terror, which is completely different) He knows how to build imagery and suspense and part of the reason his anticlimactic books are so much of a let-down is because he built up the first and second acts so well.

So, it's a case of "read with caution" or "ask someone before-hand if it's going to be one of his stinkers)