/lit/ - Literature

Surely it depends on the letters, no? For letters such as 'f' 'h' 'k' and 'p' I start at the bottom, but for everything else it is the top. With some variation between cursive and block lettering. I can't even imagine how to start at the bottom for letters like 'w' or 'v'.

Nazi's don't believe in Humanism
Tardcaths don't believe in secularism
Marxists—while both secular and humanist—think that 'secular humanism' is liberal bourgeois ideology that distracts from class struggle
These three group are in abundance on /lit/
I could be more specific as to why each believe that, but mystery solved.

>>16340991
In the myriad turds that clutter the catalogue, from e-celeb/youtube/twitter screenshots, /pol/-tier race-baiting politics threads, soijack spam, to /r9k/ '"I'm a pathetic loser, fix me" blog posts, you find philosophy threads the most objectionable?

The more a photograph tries to be meticulously natural, the more unnatural it becomes. I cannot help be be drawn away from the apparent candidness by the unbelievability of it being candid. The framing, the lighting, the pose and setting—all highly controlled and planned out. The thought of this girl and her friend/photographer arranging the pillows—likely purchased from a charity shop for the shoot and never used again—in a casual apogee; the books, sourced from the local used bookshop for their vintage and worn look, meticulously arranged in apparent chaos. And strewn perfectly between them, our 'exhausted bookworm' is tastefully posed. All this only makes the scene evoke it's cold manufactured nature rather than the intended charming endearment. You know that she isn't asleep, there's nothing accidental about the way she crooks her legs, how her hair sits, or her glasses. As if the premise of someone reading sixteen different books at once isn't ridiculous enough, we're also meant to believe that she stopped exactly halfway in each of them. You can picture the scene perfectly, the photographer asking her to close her eyes again and again until he has 'the perfect shot'; the hours in the editing program to alter the colour and brightness, to smooth over any imperfection.
I'm not offended by books being reduced to pointless paraphilia, bric-a-brac items to pose with then discard. I'm not offended by any potential vanity and the desire to appear as something you're not. I am simply disoriented by how much effort is made in an attempt to manufacture such a simulacrum, and the attempt to pass it off as real.
I even prefer stock images to this, as at least they're honest about their superficiality. Maybe photography really does steal soul.

Now I want to be serenaded by a barber-soi quartet