/lit/ - Literature

>>15583853
humans are fundamentally (in their natural state) free creatures

humans are fundamentally rational creatures (in areas that really matter)

combined, people should be free to pursue their rational desires

a totalitarian state prevents people from pursuing self-interested rational desires (which are most desires)

that is the TEXTBOOK reason, OP

>I think it also sums up one of the fears about this period that we’re living in now which is the idea that we’re generating so much paperwork and so much communication that it might actually become impossible for future historians to construct histories because there is just so much material out there. What do you pin down and say, ‘Okay this is what defines the year 2016?’
What do you make of this quote? Will authors in the future be incapable of replicating our voices today just as we struggle to make authentic historical fiction now or do you think things are so banal that there's no difficulty to be had?

>>12810512
Thanks for sharing, I feel enlightened

>>12482273
>t. edgy zoomer
Zoom, zoom!

>>12254473
I’m the one that posted this on reddit stfu fakeposter

What are some good books for a 13-14yo? My brother only reads stupid YA bulshit, how do I make him patrician, or at least appreciate good lit?

What is the literary equivalent of fortnite?

Is fortnite a work of literature?