/lit/ - Literature

When did you realise that you can't actually learn anything consciously? Like, the self-aware part of your mind can only gather and hold in the facts, while the actual transformative work is done independently but the unconscious, intangible part of your identity through wholly undecipherable mechanisms, and this alone proves idealism beyond the shadow of doubt?

These days I simply instantly dismiss anything said by someone who is not a straight while male. Gotta keep to your own.