/lit/ - Literature

>If I could go back in time, I might confront him [Nietzsche] as follows: “I am a superman: hard, cold, terrible, without feelings and without conscience. As you recommend, I will achieve heroic glory by exterminating some chattering dwarves. Starting with you, Shorty. And I might do a few things to that Nazi sister of yours, too. Unless, that is, you can think of a reason why I should not.”

how did enlightenment fetishism go out of style so quickly? 10 years ago these guys were the official thinkers of secular institutional power and now their function is just to inadvertently say mildly politically incorrect things and get castigated for it. did the fecundity of intersectionality memes provide a more efficient strategy for institutions to spread ideology? even though it was always cringey as fuck there’s something uniquely embarrassing about a guy invoking Voltaire and everybody squirming in their chairs because they know he’s about to quote some retarded shit with no point to it.