/lit/ - Literature

>>22771679
Honestly I'd probably have a much more pleasant life living in Huxley's dystopia as a Beta than living in the modern world. But this is probably partially explained by the fact that our current world is basically already an extremely shitty Brave New World, with none of the redeeming features.

>>22673138
>he's evil and uses his subordinates as chess pieces

>>22580144
Stoicism is popular chiefly because people don't understand it. They think that stoicism is about being a hardcore Chad who's badass and can endure anything, "holds frame" in any situation - a real one man army that takes a firm stance against fate. But actually stoicism is an extremely soulless philosophy that posits a mindless, materialist, mechanical, deterministic universe, where the flow of fate has you on a short leash as a slave of circumstances, and you "hold frame" against this and against your internal despair for... unclear reasons. I guess because it's "virtuous". But why be virtuous in such a universe? Stoicism has no answer. This, of course, does not bother most people, because what draws them to Stoicism is not the philosophy itself, but simply the emotional sentiment of being a badass that can endure anything.

>>22137129
>be me, the Buddha
>see people chattering away about liberation without doing the work
>"I should make my own tradition where people just do the work instead of speculating"
>centuries pass
>Buddhists no speculate instead of doing the work
>certain monks decide to split off and create their own tradition where they just do the work instead of speculating
>that tradition is called Chan/Zen
>fast forward to the 21st century
>anon posts on a Tibetan basket weaving forum (prudently avoiding /x/)
>"hey guys I am interested in the speculative side of Chan Buddhism and how it relates to anime idealism, can someone help?"
>tfw

>>22094171
>Most of Russian history is terrible, yet they produce great literature. That would seem to be a counterpoint to your assertion.
Who produced this great literature? You will find that, even when we are dealing with very traumatised authors like Dostoyevsky, we're *also* dealing with aristocrats. And Tolstoy also was an aristocrat. These are people with a certain level of hereditary sophistication to their psychology, and also good connections and wealth. A nine-to-five wagecuck zoomer today will not write Crime and Punishment even if he has the exact same character and insights as Dostoyevsky did.
And what about the Soviet writers? Notoriously not on the same level. But when they did make it big, they made it big in an environment of revolutionary fervour and state support. Again, not something you will find today. The closest thing you will find today are libtards grifting on the intersectional grift, and they are indeed very successful and productive - they are just banal and uninspired writers.
Deep, profound and well-developed works require deep life experience on behalf of the author, as well as wealth, free time and connections. Even if the first criterion is present, without the others, you get nothing.

>>21803955
I've been studying philosophy for a while and I've gotten used to complete mouthbreather readers that can't understand or even remember a piece of character information unless you constantly spoonfeed it to them whenever it is necessary, so I noticed that my writing skill suffered a lot as a result. A while ago I read a story that was closer to my intellectual calibre and that reminded me just how "discontinuous" a narrative can be, you don't need to trace every logical development from that to finish. That's been an important insight for me, something I'd forgotten. ATM I am trying to reintegrate that into my writing and to go easy on the autism. I am glad you've already got past that point anon. It might not mean much to you, but I've really become a giga writing autist, so I am happy when I see people who don't have that problem.

>>21751615

I wrote a 50k word outline in like a week, then stopped working on the novel and haven't touched it in 4 months. It might be over for me.

>>19884786
>mfw story I'm writing is technically about the antichrist