/lit/ - Literature

>Kazuo Ishiguro on newsnight saying he wants all leave voters to explicitly say that they're not racists

Literature, not even once. and he's part of academia. What a cancer

Why is reading literature shoved down my throat by lit and the media and "educated society" as something I have to do or else I'm a stupid and bad person? It seems like a marketing gimmick to me. If I sat and read all day then I'd have no money. But society wants me to use my limited free time to read while telling me that it makes me a more valuable person.

As if "muh human condition" has to be learnt from books written by the same sections of society (the ones with access to the media-publishing-academia industrial complex). (inb4 /lit/ moves the goalposts about why they read books)

It seems like a big scam to me. lit is a bunch of delusional people who want to venerate literature and publishing companies either to gain pseudo intellectual cred or in the vain hope that they'll be published one day.

Also many novels are exercises in narcissism or self indulgence by the author. But because it's packaged and distributed by a publisher then I am supposed to care or else I'm dumb. What if I don't give a shit about Dostoevsky's spiritual or moral views? Hume already showed that none of it is based on logic (see the Münchhausen trilemma). Anyone can choose the axioms they want.

Why is reading literature shoved down my throat by lit and the media and "educated society" as something I have to do or else I'm a stupid and bad person? It seems like a marketing gimmick to me. If I sat and read all day then I'd have no money. But society wants me to use my limited free time to read while telling me that it makes me a more valuable person.

As if "muh human condition" has to be learnt from books written by the same sections of society (the ones with access to the media-publishing-academia industrial complex. (inb4 /lit/ moves the goalposts about why they read books)

It seems like a big scam to me. lit is a bunch of delusional people who want to venerate literature and publishing companies either to gain pseudo intellectual cred or in the vain hope that they'll be published one day.

Also many novels are exercises in narcissism or self indulgence by the author. But because it's packaged and distributed by a publisher then I am supposed to care or else I'm dumb. What if I don't give a shit about Dostoevsky's spiritual or moral views? Hume already showed that none of it is based on logic (see the Münchhausen trilemma). Anyone can choose the axioms they want.

scientists then
>Nichopedes of Euripides measured the circumfrence of Neptune using a leaf, a rock, his severed finger, and shadows.
>Augustus Aquintosh was an 18th century English priest known for his contributions to mathematics, logic, theology, physics, the cataloguing of ladybugs, and the theory of aesthetics.

Scientists now
>Chaim Herschelstein is a New York born Harvard Neuro-Neurologist-Psychologist who is known for his theory that brain scans and experimental psychology can give fundamental information about free will, the big bang, the existence of God, and the identicalness of all races and genders.
>Tae Sun Woo is an American mathematician who skipped 15 grades and university years from the age of 1 and who has made fundamental contributions in Delta-Sigma-Banach-Triploski Onomatoepoeaic Implosion theory.
Is specialisation / modernity cancer?

>>7461263
>every permutation of words has been created

>you will never have a college experience like the characters in The Secret History

JFMSU
JDIMSA

>tfw not socially acceptable for men to have handbags
>tfw if I want to take a book to work to read on the bus then I'll have to carry it on its own
>tfw people will judge me for reading / carrying a book
>tfw people will judge the book

Why should I, as a male (early 20s, been to university) who has never even been on a date or had attention from a girl, contribute to society, or charity, or act selflessly, (without hoping for anything in return) when all women are more highly regarded than me?

I once gave money to wikipedia but regretted it soon after when I remembered it talking about the lack of female editors being down to sexism by men blabla. Why do you guys completely deny this permanent cultural movement that moves resources from men to women?

I made that topic where i asked about your views on the sexual market being lassez faire while people are taxed for their money btw. No satisfactory answers.

>23
>live in the UK
>never even flirted with a girl
>only had escorts
>no girl has ever shown interest in me
>finished university
>6'0", lifted for years

So now that my youth is over, officially ending any chance of an "authentic" youthful relationship independent of social / monetary status, and I'm a sub-Chad in terms of looks (I'm not part of the 20 % of men who get 80 % of the casual sex / 80 % of tinder matches if I tried), should I just give up any hope of ever getting girls?

Topic inspired by the university terms starting and seeing tonnes of 18-23 year olds flood my city.