/lit/ - Literature

I got sucked into trying to read some of these outsider intellectual twitter accounts again, and it's giving me a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. Is this really the best we can do? A bunch of faceless nobodies spewing out prose poem screeds against the status quo in 280-character stanzas? It's a fucking dead end, nothing good can come out of that website. Everything is fragmentary and disconnected, if somebody feels like being coherent they have to post on another website and link it back to their twitter feed. You can never tell if someone is being serious or ironic, there just isn't enough space. People bashing Deleuze & Guattari as the destroyers of western civilization are only one degree of separation away from Nick Land and his accelerationist pals. Same goes for promoters of traditional sexual morality and people with little anime girl profile pics. It's all so schizophrenic. How could this have happened? People (idiots?) tell me twitter is supposed to be ground zero for the defining literary and philosophical movement of our era, but all I see is a factory farm for castrated opposition figures, un/intentionally churning out more "content" for Big Internet. Some of them seem like pretty smart people, but I'm convinced they'll never accomplish anything meaningful as long as they use twitter. But what's the alternative?