/lit/ - Literature

>>17736278
>that all can be learned from self-help books
>90% of "deeper thoughts" are accessible by cracking open a beer and sitting under a tree for an hour
It's posts like this that convince me that some people are genetically incapable of conceiving abstract concepts beyond the most basic level

>The only reason you disagree with us is because you are flawed/fearful

>>12576075
Man I thought you were a reasonable type, butter. You usually post sincerely and thoughtfully, even if I don't agree with those thoughts. Now I see you've had your fill of the kool-aid too. Oh well.

>>12047817
>neo-Nazi

What part of OP's post made him seem like a neo-Nazi to you?

I'm a philosophy major and I'll be starting my third year soon. While I genuinely don't regret my choice, on the contrary, I wouldn't recommend anyone to become a philosophy major, either. For my plans and the path I've chosen majoring in philosophy is an excellent choice; I will teach philosophy, psychology and religion in high school after I've graduated. As a side note, being a high school teacher might seem like a very mediocre and ambitionless goal to some of you, but unlike in (presumably) many countries, in my country it's actually a pretty respected and desirable profession. Philosophy fits my personality and my way of looking at the world, and it offers me tools I'll be needing in the future, most importantly for my writing and metapolitical endeavors. I was meant to study philosophy, as cringeworthy as that might sound.

However, it seems that many of my peers have no clear plan about what their doing with their life. Many have quit their studies, or are not progressing at all. Why do taxpayers have to pay, so that a thirty-year-old alcoholic can study, or "study" philosophy and literature, or better yet, philosophy and gender studies? I see quite little worth in what is going on in the department: unless the students are finding "real" jobs, such as teaching, what is the point for the whole pseudo intellectual afternoon club? Why do regular people have finance the research of a bunch of Marxist professors, whose most important job seems to brainwashing their students to think like them? From my point of view, they are doing more bad than good to society.

The whole department is a huge leftist, liberal circle jerk; compared to them, I'm literally Hitler. The students and professors alike are incredibly narrow minded, all the while claiming to represent the enlightened intelligentsia. They scorn the people who are paying for their salary and studies, because they are a bunch on uneducated peasants, who haven't even read postmodern French philosophy and can thus never understand anything about the world. They see themselves as individual thinkers, although many of them are the very definition of herd mentality. There are some exceptions, but very, very few.

>it’s another thinly veiled thread about politics

>Wherewithal
>Ergo...

>Freud was wrong.