/lit/ - Literature

No matter how perfect the girl you get married to is, you will after a few years be ready to murder someone just to fuck the ugliest of her friends. You'll also grow bored and tired of her, the cute things she did will start to annoy you, etc. this is just the way things are. Your marriage is like your job: you don't really to find lasting happiness in it, just a comfortable arrangement that you can die in.

Also, It seems like the only thing genuinely bothering you is your feeling of underachievement.

I'm not going to watch it but I really hate these videos.

It really needs to be articulated more often that philosophy is not like science in the sense that has something to gain by becoming "popular" at the expense of content.

If a particular scientific discovery or theory is made popular, the people still have the certainty that there's a distant group of eggheads making the proper observations and experiments to validate its claims of truth with a high degree of certainty. Philosophy on the other hand has no unifying methodology and the argumentation and reasoning behind the claim made is 90%, so there's really no point in dumbing it down for mass consumption if the average Joe is going to be presented with something as simplistic and cartoonish as "Nieztsche believes in a superman!" or "Marx thought capitalism was shit!" to which they will obviously be skeptical. It spreads more misconception than knowledge.

Would you agree with the notion that every institution: social, political or economical, is developed out of an immediate material necessity, that after this material necessity is no longer present the institution in question tends to be romanticized and this romantic dimension will eventually be the seed of its destruction for allowing us to detach ourselves from the mold while remaining true to its narrative?

Take for example the couple. It was the basic, most fundamental unit of society for centuries until economic liberalism and economic independence made other arrangements (or no arrangement at all) just as manageable, and thus the idea of the couple as a romantic rather than a religious unity was born to keep it alive. But this romantic narrative also allowed future generations to disregard it completely and follow hedonistic instincts instead ("I love you, but I'm no longer in love with you" and so on)

Yes I'm a bit high but give me your thoughts I think I'm on to something here

>>5897925
>sitting with mom in the living room
>50 shades commercial appears on tv
>mom gets all excited
>part of the commercial where the dude opens his dungeon
>mom says 'ahh yes, the play room' (or whatever it's called in english)
>mfw
>mfw we have 50 shades right above our tv in the living room
>mfw she brought up the books a couple of times in conversation

Anyone else gets depressed as fuck studying history?

We can be truly horrible to each other sometimes.

Serious question here

How can some of you guys be raised with internet, be literary types and not love nearly every artistic medium available?

I get really shocked when I see someone who cares about books or music but clearly doesn't care about, say, films or videogames. All that shit is interlaced to me, from comics to classical music.

>>5128110
My nigga. I love when this happened. I understood the passage, and was struggling to formulate it clearly in my head, then you tl;dr'd it like a God.

I'm taking 20th century lit and victorian lit classes to satisfy my college cores, and they make me feel fucking stupid. Most everything we read feels very convoluted, and I have to use lots of brain power to untangle the meanings. Writers back then seemed to explain simple things in very confusing and cloudy ways.

Is this a normal experience for people who first delver in older literature? The books always seem so boring and convoluted. The only one so far that felt like a good, natural read was Gatsby.