/lit/ - Literature

>>9822194

Based fellow Scottish poster. I only came in to contact with these financial companies to tell them to pay my tuition fees.

Is it even possible for someone to sit in their armchair, by a fire, in a cozy old English home, while smoking a pipe, and think of non-trivial ideas that aren't immediately realised as being worthless? Or is that age gone? Or was it never there in the first place and people only believed in it out of stupidity?

>when I was younger
>"Lol the curtains were just red, who cares, why am I being told to find subjective conclusions and being judged as if they're objective?!"

>When I was older and smarter
>"The curtains were red for a very intelligent reason by the genius author, a reason which gives maximum insight in to human nature and the objectivity of aesthetics, not that I will dare ask why I should care about those or why everything is so obscurantist!"

>when I reached my final form

Literary Theory, as it is practised and as a whole is a set of intentionally vague, contradictory, and ever changing rules that create a logical system used by the academia-media-publishing industrial complex in order to monopolise the judgement of art, secure government funding, compete in the form of social posturing (by far the strongest reason), promote a large government, and guilt trip insecure members of the public in to paying for and proclaiming enjoyment of art.

>inb4 you say "I don't know art but I know what I like" in a non RP accent

I'm not even passing judgement on the "value" of this dominant version of "literary theory". I'm simply awaiting the butthurt that will inevitably commence just from pointing out that other forms can exist and not genuflecting towards the dominant form.

>look at my copy of war and peace
>literally the whole book is broken up in to bite size chapters a few pages long, as if it was written by and for ADD idiots incapable of the sustained attention span needed for intellectual thought

Why didn't anyone mention it was a pleb book?

A typical normie has a mid-life crisis. They have an existential crisis around the middle of their life.

I have mid-mid life crises. These are existential crises during the mid point of the mid points of my life. And so on for the mid-mid-mid points etc. (1/8,1/16...). I have crises during every single moment of my life, encompassing all points on the existential crisis function. Now multiply it by almost infinity, because I have crises not just about my life in general (and every second of the life) but stuff like, "What should I eat today?" and so on.

Now do you understand my predicament?

>>9752863
No, my friend, more, "Here lies Anon The Great, inventor of the first fully autonomous AI clit massager, proud fucker of yourus mommus"

How do I deal with having a higher IQ than 99.9 percent of people, /lit/?

Serious question. When turbo low IQ types socialise they do so about pleb things like television, football, and the works of other plebeian folks. I don't participate in any of these things so I can't relate to them, or other people.

I can't make friends because I'm too clever for them, and even when I'm not trying to do so, I outshine them and they hate me for it.
I mean, I still get laid... but afterwards I usually call the chick stupid and never speak to her again, or insult her in some way because I don't like stupid people.

This is /lit/ related because I read at least a book a day, and have done for the past 8 years.

How do I deal with drongos?
How do I stop being too smart?