/lit/ - Literature

>>17693022
Same here, anon. Walden might be up your alley.

Reminder to sage these psuedoscandals every time they get posted

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>>17336676

This. We deserve it after all the years we've help nurture your literary aspirations.

>>17028117
Did you know that when you go to jail they take your shoe laces away?

>>16624934

It's another beautiful day mates. Hope you all have had a chance to work on what you need to, and if not that you don't forget to by the day's end.

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin

>>16258481
I met a friend of mine in an MFA ceramics program. He always wore basketball shorts and grandpa button-up shirts. He was totally unencumbered with the unkempt ennui pretension. He just loved to throw clay. He was ten years older than the oldest other student in the program and he was the only one making art for its own sake.

>>16127894

What the other anon said about mainstream media / newspaper / news in general is correct. These things do not educate, they are tools for controlling and manipulating you.

Each country creates a 'story', or 'narrative' about why they are the good guys, and why you should want to be one of them. Political parties push different varients of the national narrative. The narratives conflict and contradict rach other, and various factions battle to control a very subjective global truth. So there is 'chinese truth' and 'american truth', who report contradictory information.

The newspaper you are subscribed to is trying to control your worldview. Reading political works will let you understand what politicians are trying to achieve (power at any cost) and by what methods.

1984, animal farm, the prince, brave new world are some basic entry points to get food for thought.

> Imagine getting filtered by Stoicism and then seething about it every single day because you have no control whatsoever over your own emotions

Iliad
The crying of lot 49
One, no one and one hundred thousand
Bhagavad gita
White nights
A farewell to arms
Plato's erotic dialogues
Tractatus logico philosophicus
A portrait of the artist as a young man
The gay science
Pessoa's poems
Oedipus rex
The savage detectives
On the heights of despair
>currently reading
Don quixote
Aristotle's metaphysics

>>15837817
I don't think there's any question that industrial progress has greatly challenged and will continue to challenge the integrity of our adherence to social norms that have over the course of human history proven instrumental to our civilizational well-being. These norms evolved and endured as a natural function of environmental influence, and while I'd maintain that the majority of them still are, the industrial revolution has shaken our relationship with reality to such drastic measure that clear delineation between useful traditional principles and outdated modalities has become less immediately apparent. Demoralizing and disheartening as our current growing pains are, my hope and belief is that over time we'll figure it out through trial and error.

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