/lit/ - Literature

It's hard to believe but outside of this website being a far-right nationalist who tried to instigate a coup is considered a bad thing

>>15644799

You're probably not old enough to remember but people used to be equally as obsessed with Roald Dahl and books like ''Danny the Champion of the World''. Or with Beatrix Potter and ''The Tale of Peter Rabbit''. Fuck even the Thomas the Tank Engine books had a huge following.

Obviously people remember these things but they just form part of a wider vague body of ''British childrens books''. They don't have this weird cult following that Harry Potter clearly has now

But that cult following will fade and Harry Potter will just become another flavour of Roald Dahl's work. In fact i'd even go so far to say that they'll end up less remembered than Dahl's work. At this point it's childhood obsessed millennials who are keeping Harry Potter alive and they're steadily going to drop it - especially now that JK Rowling has been cancelled. Zoomers don't see the appeal in Harry Potter and probably wont pass it on to their children.

>>14164396
Yeah, but still. I live in a third world country, and retards who don't bother reading here don't go around pretending to be "poets" or listeners of "poetry". The only people that like to pretend that are faggots in college campuses, but the uncultured retards don't even acknowledge their existence. They just keep themselves to their gettho stuff.

It amazes me how the american equivalent of those uncultured retards go around pretending to be a modern Shakespeare, and how they have a whole cult of middle-class and upper-class people (not only children) actually willing to believe it. Your country sure is fucked.

>>14061634

>>13964240
How will the minarchic state prevent men to go astray and freely follow the opposite path of the "übermensch"? What prevents the egaliatrian mainstream culture of imposing itself in a free market without oversocialized laws?
If you argue for an authoritarian leadership only on those aspects, what will prevent the people in charge of this system from getting corrupted and start using their power to push the egalitarian mainstream culture anyways?

>>13773884
>Subject philosophy starts with Descartes and was really formed by Kant, and it has been central to European philosophy

Subject philosophy it's not equivalent to subjective philosophy, you dummy. Descartes highlighted the relevance of gnoseology over metaphysics as a first science within the field of philosophy; it was a response to the traditional Aristotelian epistemology, it wasn't about how "the object is built by the observer" or any thing like that.
I'll a admit that you can find some of that in Kant though, but then again, he both inspired the Frankfurt School and the Vienna Circle.

>And scientists don't really care about philosophy, not even the Vienna circle

And that's where you're wrong. Read the Vienna Circle manifesto or "the elimination of metaphysics through logical analysis of language" by Rudolf Carnap. They're both pretty short texts, but show really well the active interest of the group in reducing philosophy to the linguistic analysis of science through formal logic, and the elimination of any form of metaphysics, ethics or aesthetics. And they won that one, also; all those fields are seen as useless by the average STEM student or teacher.

>>13561833
>i consider myself able to judge something of which i haven't read the main source

Great job butterfly, you really managed to surpass your average level of retardation once again.

>>13515557
I would also like to add that the word Cretin comes from Christian.

>>13384451
False dilemma. Ethics is supposed to be an abstract field where you can extract solutions to everyday problems, not vice versa.

My published friend is starting a magazine and wants me to be a regular contributer

>>12655126

but you have to accept that you might not be like Balzac or Proust

>>10201997
>the"greeks were basically lgbt activists" meme

>>9653015
>I'm trying my best to find a deeper meaning to it, but bleh
that only means you are dumb lol

Hedonism is a shit philosophy for people trying to justify laziness.

>With his dick in his hand, this one was his best,

>But what should he call it? Infinite Jest!

>>7939341
>>7939309
>tfw I've already done this