/lit/ - Literature

>>9318888
first post, inspired analogy, and quads. buy a lotto ticket m8

>>9320763
OP can't know he is ready for Stirner because he is oblivious to the vastness of what he does not know. He is unprepared for philosophy in general. This, incidentally, makes >>9318888 extra-brilliant because that is the overarching theme of the Dialogues: disregard rhetoricians and sophists, their supposed wisdom only proves their ignorance. Approach every problem with an open mind and with critical tools. Do not fall into the trap of hubris. (As OP did.)

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26
Washington DC
IT Consultant for DoD

Why is literature peddled as enriching? Why do you guys pretend that it's anything more than entertainment?

This "human condition" stuff is bs. Why not just go and live a life, if that's what you want to feel. Fair enough if it's stuff like All Quiet on the Western Front. But most of the time it's not.

I read somewhere that the study of literature, literary theory, was pretty much an accident. Rhetoric professors (or something like that) were suddenly forced to do research as well as teach, like the other professors.

Also the publisher model is laughable and its telling that you guys still worship it. Book choice, especially for the less discriminating masses, was centralised among a few people of homogeneous backgrounds, and now the internet changes things, yet you guys reject things. There's the laughable sight of the "aspiring writers" on here wanting to be chosen by the publishing gods, or else be condemned to self publishing. And even when the publishers wave around their Tao Lins and their maria whatshernames, you still won't contemplate any other measure of quality. Fair enough if you went to Oxbridge or Ivy League, wishful thinking otherwise.

it is true
philosophy is a load of shit, but literature isn't good because it solves problems, it's good because it kills time while also encouraging thinking skills

>>7291123
By hot I means seasonal or climate that causes significant need for competition for resources or survival traits.
Northern Africa a desert, competition, India and Europe challenging and seasonal climate, Mexico actually didn't develop as far as is projected, but they did have a weak written language and some interesting rituals.
Defiantly not near the level of achievement of the Egyptians.
>>7291115
>2015
>not wanting to make America great again
I mean come on
>>7291134
They were about other values such as mastery of skills and more critical knowledge. Now we are also very heavily weighted in English and other lesser aspects that appeal to men.