/lit/ - Literature

>>11748071
Out of curiosity, how "gay pride" are you? Even though I was fairly conservative I used to not really have a problem with gay people, but the more I meet the more I dislike them.

Of all the gay people I've ever met, I've only really liked one, every other one strikes me as having some form of mental disorder. Again, I'm not set out to hate gay people or anything like that, I just have noticed that I dislike the personalities of pretty much every one I meet. They are excessively hedonistic, lack loyalty of any sort, and also lack a filter and will say disgusting things. It's hard not generalize like this when almost every one fits this mold.

I imagine if you are here that you aren't really a typical gay person, and I'm curious what your thoughts are.

>>11726510
Literally untrue for most of history. Given that for most of human existence, humans existed and competed as roving hunter-gatherer bands with little class stucture, most conflict was ethnic and not class-based.

It's true that as human civilizations grew throught Eurasia, various classes emerged, but even those had a fundamentally ethnic core. Look at India, the proto-Indo-Europeans conquered the Dravidian natives and established a caste system based on PIE supremacy over the native Dravidians. Then look at the divisions within the PIE peoples. The top was the Brahmins - spiritual and intellectual leaders - followed by Ksatriyas - esentially warriors and nobility. This would be reduced to class distinction in Marxist though but was really much more; this reflected a metaphysical idea: the supremacy of mind to matter.

This distinction arises again and again throughout history. Whether it is the estate system in France or a hunter-gather village, humans have long recognized the superiority of priests/shamans to warriors. What may be referred to simply as "class" is actually a metaphysical idea of mind over matter.

Hello /lit/, I apologize in advance if I this thread is a copy of a recurrent one or uses buzzwords or otherwise inflammatory material (or if it comes across as a blog post), but I am currently in a mental fog and could use suggestions for getting out of it.

For what it's worth (and I genuinely don't want to come across as a bragging ass) I am a Senior in a prestigious engineering school, and as a result I can only reason linearly/mathematically: by this I mean, that deviations from a clear and definite "problem-solving methodology" mentality prohibit me from understanding philosophy or good literature where, as you know, concepts are comparatively abstract and require inductive reasoning- and given a writing project I've been working on on and off for years, this inability is frustrating and intimidating. Outside of brute-forcing my way through, what must I do to rid myself of this frustrating inability?

TL;DR: my reading comprehension has become mediocre and I cannot read through Hegelian or Kantian philosophy without grasping the dialectical discourse