/lit/ - Literature

>>16318711
Wait til you get to the Romans and realize everything else in the western canon is commentary on the Greeks.

>>10988238
Sorry anon, I started browsing in 2010 and I'm still here.
You never leave.

>>10957127

>>10189631
This post is very on point to why I keep visiting 4chan. The possibility of a unique conversation is always here, and the search for such a thread keeps that dopamine pumping. However, some threads do predictably degenerate to shitposting, usually due to the very topic of the thread, and the topics that come up on /lit/ are most of the time predictable since they have a nostalgia for non-contemporary literature.

I do admit I unironically enjoy visiting /pol/. There are always new discussions happening every day, every hour. /pol/ has a very keen eye on the 24 hour news cycle. You can post whatever you like, and even if you go against the board's group think, the worst that'll happen to you is you get called a shill or a cuck.

In many ways, 4chan is a mental prison. I easily get distracted from reading, and getting work done by browsing threads and posting. Yet, I do feel it has a therapeutic purpose. In an age of hyper-connectivity, I think a place where we can have unrestricted anonymous communication with little to no consequence is needed. Anonymity gives us a voice without a face. We can amass all of our grievances and frustration in our day-to-day lives, and shout it all out to the ether, and the best part is, we don't know if other people read it or not. What matters is we THINK we are being heard, and that is enough to give our irl conflicts, no matter how small, meaning but without the consequences which stem from truly expressing how we feel and think. It's cathartic in a way.

write whats on your mind

>>9667196
Fair point about the diary format, I did not consider that.

I'm flattered that you'd consider me a grad student, but I'm more of a loser. What do you find pretentious about my post though? Would you disagree with my criteria for being a pseud - someone who propagates pale ideas taken out of context?

I don't see anything wrong with reaching out to a wider audience per se, but my criticism of the content still stands.

>>9667278
Pic related

Well of course we SHOULD leave, 3chan is the internet equivalent of a crack den.

>>9480234
>I've grown out of 4chan.
hahaha

I'm sure someone can direct you to a "grown-up" website. you'll frequent it for a week, then start lurking 4chan again. a year from now you'll have forgotten about the other website and make this same thread a second time.

Friendly reminder for the newfriends who came here in the last 2 years.

>>8866516
>implying your books can fulfill the instant gratification that reading short pieces of information provides