/lit/ - Literature

How do I decide between a life of trying to simply exist and going as deep into Christianity as possible? Whenever I consider the former I end up thinking that I'm just being lazy and that it's possible that Jesus was right. Whenever I consider the latter I think that I'm probably wrong.

Does anybody else just read philosophy because it's fun and harmless mental masturbation? All these faggots that take it too seriously or say it's 'their religion' don't seem to get that it's a fun bending and straining of the mind and need to relax the fuck out.

This guy's stuff is really cool. Don't know if you've heard of him, though.

>>6145708
So you excuse sophistry because it acknowledges itself to be sophistry?

>>6145708
So

>>6075526
Didn't you read any of my dialogues, plebeian?

Classicism is dead. No, you should not "start with the Greeks". James Joyce showed the logical extent of trying to keep this farce up in the modern world with Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. Do they contain great writing? yes. Are they good models for writers? Not at all.

The 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st century world is different from Shakespeare's world or Homer's world. Yes, certain aspects of "human nature" can be realized throughout all literature. But making an allusion to the monster or god or character that's supposed to represent something, without caring about what it actually represents, is literary failure; being stuck between Scylla and Charybdis is a clever maxim, but many of the dreadful, boring "greats" of the 20th century probably would have found themselves at a loss as to how to effectively describe a character being in a situation like that without using vague platitudes and allusions.

It's time for authors an poets to stop being stuck in the past. The reading public today doesn't really care about Greek mythology and philosophy, or Laurence Sterne who knew a lot of Greek mythology and philosophy, or Joyce who knew a lot about both of them and more. The most courageous possible act learned writers could do nowadays would be to forget about the existence of these and truly write about the modern world, without bogging it down in a morass of allusions, to risk being unoriginal.

So, /lit/, put away Plato's Republic. The arts of the 20th century would have been much, much, much better if they all could have simply forgot.

>>5899157
>physically stronger = better
ayy lmao
I bet you didn't even read The Republic, homo.