/lit/ - Literature

>tfw too smart to believe in God

>DFW ripped off Mcelroy and Pynchon with a little bit of Don Delilo thrown in the mix
>All the semi decent horror authors heavily ripped off Lovecraft to some degree
>Murakami ripped off Kobo Abe
>All the post modernists ripped off Joyce
>Just about everyone trying to write surrealist fiction rips off Kafka
>Everybody rips off the Greeks like Illiad and The Odyssey and other ancients using them as a templates

Is all literature and writing just ripping off your predecessor while trying to one up them until your own style has developed enough

Mediations by Marcus Aurelius is considered to be an important book not because of whats written in there, but because it was written by Marcus Aurelius the Roman Emperor. If Meditations was produced exactly the same but by a common man, it wouldn't be of interest to anyone

>>21590476
What events in your personal life do you think may have caused such hare trigger anxiety? This is a maladaptive and excessively neurotic response to unassuming everyday stimuli.

>>21442570
Thank you. To be clear I believe in the human powers for adaptation. What's troubling is that zoomers have been exposed to so much change across so many dimensions simultaneously, with no context or education to keep them up to pace with it. Indeed their ability to absorb this context is diminished by these technological changes even if it were up to date.

And up until now we haven't even gotten started with AI promising to possibly cause far more profound disruptions than anything that's come before.

Zoomers are cut out of time. They are the first generation without a shared past, without touchstones to ground them, binding them to a continuity . They are technologically encouraged to live in the present, which on its own has tremendous limitations for bearing the full psyche. And the future is a writhing mass of uncertainty and anxiety, with portents of doom and chaos being its only readable signs.

What zoomers need is some universal, collective focusing event which snaps them out of the tech induced hypnosis and allows them to find discover themselves unmediated by digital interlopings. Their problem is that their experience is too mediated, too indirect, and so they cannot connect with what's real and true to themselves. Instead they are adapted to being coupled to a digital interface which is tampering with their minds. Something must happen to sever this mediated experience which interferes with the "naked brain" coming into its own authenticity .