/lit/ - Literature

>>9252861

>My advice: Fuck Joyce, authentically b yourself, read your Wittgenstein and create something. Not being able to stop reading something, that's GOD speaking to you my bucko!

I refuse to commit myself to specialization because that destroys perspective, especially considering that now, during my formative years, is when I need it most. Right now, I feel like I'm suffering because of overspecialization, since I have a hard time connecting with my fellow man in the present and from the past. Just because I'm naturally good at things doesn't mean that I should neglect other fruitful pursuits that will help me grow as a person, as challenging as they would be.

this kind of shit makes me think that the intellectual life is not worth pursuing

>be Noam Chomsky
>be a paragon of intellectualism
>have your ENTIRE book shelf transformed every few years because you read so much
>continuously revolutionize linguistics because you're a genius
>take up politics in your free time
>write Manufacturing Consent, the biggest "redpill" on the politico-media complex for people who don't like to use the word "redpill"
>2016
>discard life's acquired knowledge and join corporate media to support Clinton in general election because "muh waterboarding"
>as if you believe that the statists still aren't torturing dissidents in CIA holdings

Noam Chomsky is a big, fat disappointment. Makes me think the journey isn't worthwhile if turning into a mess is the end result, despite constant thinking.

>>9079378

why I oughtta