/lit/ - Literature

>Saw this on /r9k/, /lit/. You might find it interesting:
Arcanine, I'm a sociologist that for some silly reason decided to study the decaying husk of 4chan. Conclusion:

4chan is a Carnival. Not the lame festivals that exist in modern society, but a proper ugly Carnival with masks and vulgarity and sex and indulgence and ridiculousness. All the carnivals in western society were taken over by the powers that be and turned into pretty and safe festivals cause the carnival is pretty dangerous to dominant folk. See the table to the left if you know how to brain.

>however, I want to point out that the key difference is that 4chan is permanent, whereas a carnival is not. In the end you could almost compare it more as a cross between a "failed state" with boredom/social and a carnival