/lit/ - Literature

Tomorrow work.
Save me from this nightmare.

>>14246265
Disney continues to ruin everything in its wake

>>13973005
Anyone else slightly perturbed by the influx of people needing to know "how to read/how can i read more?"

>>12729654
>"Pareto had argued that democracy was an illusion and that a ruling class always emerged and enriched itself. For him, the key question was how actively the rulers ruled. For this reason, he called for a drastic reduction of the state and welcomed Benito Mussolini's rule as a transition to this minimal state so as to liberate the "pure" economic forces."
Wut?

>>11867344
>look up how to make DMT
>find that I'll need a certain root to get the best out of it
>look up where I can buy said root
>directs me to Kijiji where someone within two blocks of me is selling 10 kilos of it
>too afraid to message due to paranoia that its some sort of honeypot

>>11779910
>tfw mother is an alcoholic and you grow up to be an emotionally unstable distant person

Is it just me or is society actually getting dumber? Without invoking political leanings, its ridiculous just how easily swayed or influenced people to become. Have we become a people solely following reactions and wants.

I'm not perfect but the number of people I've seen fawning over Nike in the past few days because of their latest campaign you'd think it was some sort of life-changing art piece

>>11557495
I don't think there are too many books about that particular issue, but if you want to know what a lot of internets and social media can have on a developing mind, read "The Shallows" by Nicholas Carr.

Other than that, a lot of people fantasize about a great many things. How is it you are physically drained by thoughts?

>>11350603
this gets to me

>>11092275
Why do you have 40 pictures of Japanese women from 1996?

>>11068260
Are you seriously denying that there is a political elite that have a vested interest in preserving the present system???

>>10113713
Or you could not fold your books like a newspaper. Also if you handled your hardbacks in the same way you would snap their covers too. The reason that Hard backs tend to last longer is that people are nicer to them. Not only because they are nicer or more expensive but because the tactile sensation you receive from them tells your brain ''This is stiff an' brittle **Ooga Booga** MUST BE CAREFUL TO NOT BREAK'' and you subconsciously correct your behavior in order to not break them.
Learn to control your mind, Dingus Erectus.

>>9769559
>to read, i guess

>Die while looking up at the sky
>the sky appears to fall towards me
>one half is blue and the others red
>blues side appears to be falling on me
>assume I'm going to heaven
>sky get's closer
>both sides are actually hell, but the side I' going to has blue fire

>>5465932
>Diewhile looking up at the sky
>the sky appears to fall towards me
>one half is blue and the others red
.blues side appears to be falling on me
>assume I'm going to heaven
>sky get's closer
>both sides are actually hell, but the side I' going to has blue fire

>>5429195

Go to class.
Read.
Watch movies.
Contemplate my astronomical loneliness.
I hate being with people, they mess my mind and my feelings.

>>5346906
Is this shit for real? Does anyone else have sub-vocalization? I can't read more than 100 pages in an hour and a half (minimum).

>heidegger
help me

ridiculous things you've heard professors say

>reading the lost paradise
>professor tries to sell theory of eve being a lesbian