/lit/ - Literature

>>20179061
OGEY

>>18407489
anime website, newfag

>>14253001
do you honestly think the only thing keeping nihilism/hedonism at bay is not fucking or masturbating?
i sincerely pity you

>>14166489
What are the ups of being an INTJ?

How the hell is Nietzsche taken seriously? It seems the only people outside of stubborn academics who like him are those who haven't actually read him, who've only seen snippets here and there, who see a quote and think, 'I like this,' and just take it; but anyone who looks to him seriously to see if there's anything of worth, they find nothing. He realizes the problems with nihilism, yet he offers no real solution beyond mere conjecture. His work sounds good if you're already an atheist but no intelligent religious person could ever be convinced by it. God's certainly not dead, so his work deals with the totally imaginary implications of a society where God's existence is the assumption having somehow come to the consensus that God does not exist. As much as I despise New Atheists, at least they actually try to make logical arguments against God, like 'but there's no empirical evidence'—even that nonsense is preferable to Nietzsche's aphoristic feel-good bullshit—and as much as I also despise Stirner, at least he realizes that no amount of cope will save you from nihilism once you've rejected religion and just embraces it.

Storm-and-stress period of women:
>In the three or four civilized countries of Europe women can through a few centuries of education be made into anything, even into men: not in the sexual sense, to be sure, but in every other sense. Under such a regimen they will one day have acquired all the male strengths and virtues, though they will also of course have had to accept all their weaknesses and vices into the bargain: thus much can, as aforesaid, be extorted. But how shall we endure the intermediate stage, which may itself last a couple of centuries, during which the primeval properties of women, their follies and injustices, are still asserting themselves over what has been newly learned and acquired? This will be the age in which the actual masculine affect will be anger: anger at the fact that all the arts and sciences have been choked and deluged by an unheard-of dilettantism, philosophy talked to death by mind bewildering babble, politics more fantastic and partisan than ever, society in full dissolution, because the custodians of ancient morality and custom have become ludicrous to themselves and are striving to stand outside morality and custom in every respect. For if women possessed their greatest power in morality and custom, for what will they have to grasp to regain a comparable abundance of power once they have abandoned morality and custom?

>Sometimes it requires only a stronger pair of spectacles to cure the lover, and he who had the imagination to picture a face, a figure twenty years older would perhaps pass through life very
undisturbed.

What did Nietzsche mean by this?

>>13538737
Damn, she's beautiful.
I want her to be my gf.

>As our arts themselves grow ever more intellectual, our senses more spiritual, and as for example we now adjudge what is pleasant sounding quite differently from the way we did a hundred years ago: so the forms of our life will grow ever more spiritual, perhaps to the eye of earlier ages uglier, but only because it is incapable of seeing how the realm of inner, spiritual beauty is continually growing deeper and wider, and to what extent we may all now accord the eye of insight greater value than the fairest structure or the sublimest edifice.

Nietzsche would have viewed things like anime and video games as being deeply rooted in a love for simulation, which he would view as being part of this spiritual and intellectual growth, wouldn't he?

>>8785391
>LN are not american
No shit. I am of course talking about Japanese culture.

>>8785385
They are there to fill a void caused left when a society is obsessed with manchild shit and doesn't want to read a full-fledged book. People should challenge themselves instead of gobbling up junk food. Light novels would not exist otherwise. Like anime, they are a mistake.

>>8785786
>>8785802
I actually intend to read NHK because I'm fascinated with hikikomori and have a version of it on my Kindle. Didn't know at first that it was a light novel, but I will give it a fair shake.

>>8785927
Destiny can be subverted by failure.

Nietzsche's book is so easy to read that loli can read his book.