/lit/ - Literature

>>23137247
The realisation that most (all?) women are incapable of true, honest, faithful love has done more to blackpill me than any excess of suffering or injustice in this godforsaken world.

>The richest, most successful woman in the world larping as a tortured "poet"
>All that money and she can't even pay someone to write better rhymes than Dr Seuss
>Much less learn how to write some herself
The absolute fucking state.

>>23028970
>the PhDs usually come from diploma mills or shit tier schools.

>She was a recipient of the UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship with a joint appointment in the School of Public Health and Department of Sociology.
The big universities are the ones pushing this garbage. There's no stopping them short of total collapse.

>>22925602
The absolute state of culture these days where even its defenders degenerate and corrupt the name of truth-seeking and higher purpose.

>>22746405
>BAKA young writers essay competition finalists announced
>All essays are about contemporary bullshit
I fucking hate the state of our "culture". It's so awful. Here's the list of finalists:

Taylor Angelo’s essay Foundations of Utopia about climate change, housing affordability and the need to dream;
Sophie Blewitt’s essay on sunscreen, skin cancer and sun safety;
Elizabeth Bourke’s essay Pound of Flesh on animals, pets and vets;
Adam Gottschalk’s essay Careering on first jobs and climate change;
Charlie Kennedy’s essay A Haunting in Reverse about family, mental health and moving out;
Giselle Laszok’s essay The Last Australian about the Tasmanian tiger, climate change, and “the last Australians”;
Dayeon Seo’s essay Liminal Spaces: Between Domestic and International Students, ‘Permanently Temporary’ Residents Forever in Limbo about being an international student after more than 15 years living in Australia;
Abbey Sim’s essay on Christianity in Australia;
Eleanor Swan’s essay Picky about eating disorders and their treatments;
Flynn Shan Benson’s essay Our Language; Or, How to Say Shibboleth in an Australian Accent about language, power and politics.