/lit/ - Literature

>reading carlyle's Heroes and Hero Worship
>"I liken common languid Times, with their unbelief, distress, perplexity, with their languid doubting characters and embarrassed circumstances, impotently crumbling down into evr worse distress towards final ruin; all this I liken to dry dead fuel, waiting for the lightning out of Heaven that shall kindle it. The great man, with his free force direct out of God's own hand, is the lightning. His word is the wise healing word which all can believe in. All blazes round him now, when he has once struck on it, into fire like his own. The dry mouldering sticks are thought to have called him forth."
>start thinking, this really is weimar isn't it
>something is about to happen isn't it
>check 4chan absentmindedly
>pic related
Carlson isn't the Great Man, but there are a surprising amount of Carlsons out there preparing the way for him