/lit/ - Literature

>>10888272
Of those, History and Philosophy are by far the most worthwhile. Social sciences aren't going to challenge you sufficiently if you're smart enough to actually belong in college.Your classmates will also be much sharper than the people you'd study with in psych or sociology.

Dunno what your school is, but at mine people in the humanities like history and philosophy were very employable by competitive employers (IBM, Goldman off the top of my head) so long as they did internships or also developed some minor technical skills. Social sciences were for burnouts.

If you must spend a lot of time in the social sciences departments, at least make it a second major.

>>7096989
They're both power structures that manipulate humanity's basic neural circuits to keep the status quo.

Brave New World satisfies everyone's Oral/first/reptile/survival circuit and tries to imprint everyone to focus on that circuit above all others with the exception of a few Alphas who are imprinted to also value their third/cerebral circuit just enough to do complex tasks but not to innovate. This is far from ideal for humanity because the population is still controlled through fear of losing their oral pleasures, and imprinting is controlled strictly enough that there is no hope of anyone breaking free from that fear.

1984's government uses the anal/territorial circuit to cow people into either fear of their leaders or brainwashing them into identifying with their leaders and fearing rejection by those leaders. Any sign of an individual leaving that fear behind is met with violence and traumatic re-imprinting.

In short, both worlds not only use fear to control the populace (even existing governments do that) but they limit themselves to one kind of fear and so exhibit a frightening amount of control over most people and create an absolute hell on earth for anyone whose imprinting doesn't go correctly.

>>7044024
>>7044043
The denial's pretty funny. I graduated from an Ivy last year and knew other guys browsed 4chan there. It's not rare for accomplished people to show up here but they like to meme around because, tbh, most discussion here isn't as interesting as the ones you could start by walking into the common room and starting a conversation with real people.

>>7044014
This guy gets it. I've lived a pretty interesting life including an elite university where I got up to some wild shit with some fascinating people but when I tell people here they just decide they don't believe me, and that sort of provincialism is probably why the guys from my school who post here don't bother acting serious. You people really need to get out more.

>>7039122
bumping the most /lit/ thread in years

>>6756914
At an actual good university. If you can't get into an Ivy League university, Stanford, or OxBridge you're shit out of luck when it comes to patrician women.
>inb4 mad peasants

>>5953098
matisse has been dead a while now

what do you like about murakami? i've always found his work hammy tbh

>>5897970
What's the last slide?

Art thread

>>5143028
I like Murakami, personally.