/lit/ - Literature

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wJdNrCeUdhc
Thoughts /lit/? Can the eternal mutt even be saved at this point?

Can we discuss memes in depth?
For example, I kinda want to talk about the psychology of why memes arise and their deeper meanings, i.e. I think that the kinoplex memes are in part reactions to the absurdity and overengineered nature of modern society (mixed with a healthy dose of absurdist humor)

Franz Kafka's "The Hunger Artist" is about NEETdom
>while things start off okay for the Hunger Artist, he quickly descends down a very steep decline towards forgottenness as he rots away in his cage, just as the NEET starts life loved by his family until siding into inaction and being unplugged from society.
>the hunger artist loves his cage, and loves his hunger, in much the same way that the NEET learns to love his bedroom and his NEET lifestyle (/comfy/). He defends his "art" in the same way that the NEET defends his comfy lifestyle.
>as society becomes more and more mechanized (symbolized by the near conveyor belt-like assembly of people that pass by the hunger artist's cage) the hunger artist is completely forgotten, an obsolete part that won't die but isn't worth the trouble to remove anyway much like the NEET is an acceptable loss for the rest of society
>the NEET rests easy in the knowledge that his solitude is self-imposed, much like the hunger artist takes pride in going further than usual, even if it is to his detriment and no one really knows; the NEET either consciously or unconsciously chooses to see how far he can take the Hiki/NEET lifestyle as an affront or to prove himself
>when the hunger artist dies, he admits that he never wanted to go hungry, just that he never found anything worth eating. Here the metaphor becomes most clear. No one wants to become a NEET, but they do it because they are not built for society or not built for this time; they check out because, while they are offered buffets by society, for whatever reason they never found anything worth eating
>when he dies, he is replaced by a panther, in the same way that NEETs will never breed and will be replaced by stronger, more physically and interpersonally fit people that will take their place and please the masses in the way the hunger artist and the NEET never could

How do I get a gf and what're some books that will help me get a gf?

Does your average person think about their mortality at all except in broad strokes?
If this isn't literature related enough then I'll ask for books for this feel

>>11009848
>Of course he was wrong, he doesn't deviate from Anglo tradition in that regard

http://www.vulture.com/2017/08/the-toxic-drama-of-ya-twitter.html
>write a YA book about how prejudice is bad and, naturally, include characters that are prejudiced so you can refute these ideas
>people jump on you for being prejudiced because you dared to write those things
When did reading become like this /lit/? When did the author having a character who they disagree with not become a thing that readers thought about? Do readers nowadays think that Joyce was an antisemite because of the Cyclops, or that Nabokov was a pedophile because of Humbert?

>>10957799
A female with high IQ may make less unreasonable demands on you in a relationship. They will still make demands but I would expect them to be less questionable. It's just a reasonable guess more than anything. A female with 150 IQ is going to be more competant than one with 90 IQ. I'm not really sure what your issue with it is.

Does an anime where all the famous philosophers go to the same high school exist? If not, who would do what?

Ulysses>Gravity's Rainbow>Infinite Jest
Prove me wrong

>>10816497
>nihilism that inevitably gives way to hedonism with a little faux Judeo-Christian "just be nice :)" morality on it
>being used to justify immorality
What? No!

Which one of them is the greatest novel ever written?

>>10789041
>tfw I can't write for shit
Will I get better as I read more?