/lit/ - Literature

>>22621886
Has anybody bothered to point out that the reason New Atheism got ruined is because they won, and the result was fucking terrible?

Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris, etc. literally got everything they wanted. Christianity was discredited, Evangelicalism in particular was made a laughingstock, atheism became the acceptable default mode of the West.

And the result? The result wasn't enlightenment, or euphoria, or a greater, more noble society. The result is that everybody became a fat, tattoo-covered druggie slowly medicating themselves into numbness and collapse. The New Atheists got everything they wanted but the glorious future they thought would be the result wasn't the result, the result was the Western world becoming an open sewer.

Have any of those fuckers ever bothered to address this? Hitchens of course is dead, but have Dawkins or Harris ever bothered to point out that they won, and the result was fucking terrible? What do they or Dennett have to say for themselves? Look at the world they've made, man, it's fucking awful.

>>22436603
I actually am big on Twitter, but I'm a faithful Catholic who has a lot of right-wing views and is skeptical of the American Project, so I have to assume I'm radioactive to most publishers.

I've gotten a few short stories and a few poems published but I'm still waiting for my big breakthrough as an artist. I don't know how to make people really notice my art. How do you as an artist get the spotlight on you? I'm confident enough in my abilities that I know if I got a big break I wouldn't squander it, and my writing is good enough that I know I could win the appeal of many.

I just don't know how you get the world's eyes on you in a positive, productive way. I've already tried the traditional publishing game and it hasn't worked out for me, so I don't know what to do.

I realize Discord is the devil, but man, there is kind of a part of me that wishes I could interact with you guys in a way that lets me use my real identity. I've never liked breaching anonymity on 4chan and I am generally very averse to doing so; I don't want to get a tripcode, don't want to be an attention whore, that sort of thing. But as a result, I really can't share my own writing and poetry in a way I feel comfortable with. And I wish I COULD, with some of you guys, and that I could absorb you guys' writing and poetry myself, under my own name.

Basically you guys are my friends who are into literature, but you don't know who I am and I don't know who you are, so there are some things we really can't do, which we COULD do if we knew each other better.