/lit/ - Literature

>>15423620
It's a classic work and really a stand alone rather than a successor to part 1. More about the symbolism between ancient and modern times.

I'll tell you why I read it since I heard the same criticism as you: you'll never have a better opportunity to read it than after part 1. As another anon said, takes more time to read and understand references since he references Hellenistic Greece alot throughout along with many other sources. Don't go into it expecting a coherent story and plot but rather look for the deeper meaning.

Side note: do NOT read the shitty Penguin edition in your pic OP. No footnotes, translation is not the worst but pretty bad. Don't have a recommendation for a better version. I've heard good things about Oxford for both, someone mentioned Norton which you can't really go wrong with. Do some research.

you keep saying I said that, but I didn't. I said that OP was referring to /pol/ incels, and not literal nazis. I also said that I empathize with OP's need for a new board. because this board is declining in quality.

i've been here for longer than you, stop trying to measure dicks with me senpai. and go drink some tea or something, you're hotheaded and jump to conclusions.

>>12637095
anonette, I am not against you. I have grown past that phase too. but I know for a fact that manipulative behaviour under very attractive looks works

>>12470771
I vaguely remember hearing him say something in one of his anti mass media remarks that it wasn't uncommon for working class neighbourhoods back in the early 20th century to have weekly get-togethers discussing the works of Shakespeare and so on.
I appreciate that less social mobility left genuinely bright and engaged people at the bottom back then, but this image of literary get-togethers in most working class neighbourhood always seemed preposterous to me.
Especially preposterous is his premise that the media has dumbed us all down and therefore the working class now would be engaged in high art forms in their leisure time if not for trash entertainment. The modern working class in countries with welfare nets and 3rd level education that allows people too poor to attend through grants has created a situation where most of the people who are working poor are generally either unintelligent, have a poor attitude towards work, or a combination of both.
Looking back at most of the people I grew up with in England who lived in council estates, it is just one case after another of genuinely stupid and loud people with terrible habits that they pass on to their children.
Voting to leave the EU is the first principled thing they have done for the country in their whole lives.
>>12473060
The hedonistic culture all around us is more a product of left-wing cultural liberalism than it is of capitalism, which has existed for longer alongside a restrained society than it has alongside this nihilistic post-60s devolved culture of cheap pleasure-seeking.