/lit/ - Literature

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A little levity goes a long way towards lifting men's spirits. But a shitpost? Your honor I was following the precedent of medieval tradition! Was it not the prerogative of the court jester, no, their very duty, in fact, to point out the folly of the high and mighty? To poke fun and through satire show the underlying truths that others feared to speak out?
It's true that we put overmuch stock in the number of words written. It's true that we take ourselves too seriously, when our pursuit should be a joyous one, our camaraderie merry and upbeat.
It is also a fact, that people fixate on content, content, content, while forgetting the other con, that is context. What is the context of their work? Whom do they follow in style and substance? Do they even have either, or are their words mere mechanical typing, a flood of characters in the document that exist to see an arbitrary number go up, perhaps in some vain hope that they'll fix it in editing, when they have no idea how to do so?
Far from a shitpost, I believe I am in fact providing an effortpost.