/lit/ - Literature

>>19533770

That's because we are wannabe Americans. We care more about their politics and are becoming more like them every year, we watch all of their shows and movies, we ape their music, we adopt their style, use the exact products they produce and use, their corporate bodies make up most of our industry, restaurant and retail spaces. We then proceed to ignore and look down on home grown stuff. We are an unconnected state. One with less brain-worms, for sure, but anyone talking about Canadian culture is a having a fucking laugh.

>>19438807
Because this is supposed to be a board about literature and instead of discussing works with homoerotic themes they're asking base questions like "What's the most you've cum in a day"

Come on

>Even /lit/ is plagued with mindless race-bait

>>19185338
>writing about the lives of refugees and the consequences of colonialism.

>>19066488
Exodus was probably made up, yes.

>>19032264
I've been a NEET before and I desperately want to go back to it. I don't understand people like you. Can you not keep yourself busy? Get a schedule, start listing down activities, stick to that schedule. Simple as. You can do all of the things you'd like to do with your life because you have time. If only I could back. I hate office work so much.

>>18994986
Went to a party the other night and drank myself silly. I acted like a fucking tool around people who I had never met before. I embarrassed myself and my friends. I burned bridges that I hadn't even crossed. The whole night I thought I was just having fun, and I woke up the next morning hating myself for what I did. Today I feel a little less miserable, but not much better. What's funny is that I went to that party thinking it was going to be great, that I would be more social and meet new people and that things would start to get better for me. It's just another mistake in my life, I guess. It feels like every time I think my life is improving somewhat I'm just leading up to another large mistake and I will always end up back where I started. I wonder why I keep going if this is the case: that if everything in my life is just a mistake, and that I would be better off not doing any of the things I've ever done in my life, then why not just neck myself. The scary thing is that I don't have an answer to that question, and every time I think about this I feel like I'm getting closer to realising that there never will be an answer and when I do get to that conclusion the only thing left for me to do is take my own life. But I'm not there yet, so I suppose I'll just keep on going.

>>18946268
What am I even watching? Who are these spotty teenagers?

>>18850061
>the eternal translation debate
Glad I'm not a native anglophone.

>>18666238
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>>18668064

"God, I'm so fucking lonely. Both intellectually, as well as physically, and also in the spiritual sense. When will this ride end?"
- Me, 2021

>tfw cucked out of german by WW2 and the Marshall plan
I'm sorry, germanons. I only speak my native language and english.

My first crush was from Hamburg.

>>18531023
>The current scene in the UK still has loads of white male writers
>still has
>still

>>18480708
Unironically banged 3 different women last week and still want to kms

>there is no cure for the human predicament but death

I told you, anons. I told you about the Kalevala-autist.

Recently I received dante's divine comedy as a gift. I had told a family member that I would like a book that was old and rich with story and characters. I really want to read this but I'm just not at a level in which I can articulate what is being said. I tried to find podcasts or audio of someone reading it but the translation was different to the one I was reading. is there any way around this?

>I just want my stuff read
>Offer to read other people's stuff in exchange
>Read and critique their piece
>They re-edit and re-send the same scene
>They do it again
>And again
>and again...

>>17993045
>>17993048
>another day another leftypol thread trying to push the frankfurt school as based and redpilled right wingers on /lit/
why do they do this?

>>17962624
>A movement to rebuild the literary canon using an antibias, antiracist critical literacy
How is it possible for someone to be this much of a moron? Whenever I see people advocating antibias, antiracism, and so on, I remember that part from the Unabomber Manifesto:
>Feminists are desperately anxious to prove that women are as strong and as capable as men. Clearly they are nagged by a fear that women may NOT be as strong and as capable as men.
Leftists are so obsessed with equalizing everything, disregarding important criteria in the process. Absolutely absurd.
>inb4 Kaczynski ywnbaw stupid manifesto
I'm not saying Kaczynski is right about everything, nor that his writings are original, but he compiled a nice set of ideas in a short text; the parts on leftism in particular are absolutely spot on, the other parts are debatable.

>>17962653
>implying
Posting on twitter how reading the classics doesn't make you a better person doesn't make you a better person. And saying that the classics are unimportant and outdated doesn't make you a better person. Why do they have to be such smartasses?

>>17962826
>Were they actually important parts of children's education?
Yes, they were.
>but they can do this at home or in the later years of their schooling
At home, that's kind of ridiculous. In the later years of their schooling, that can make sense.
>Surely there are far more relevant and better texts out there for engaging young students in reading to produce lifelong reading habits and engagement?
That is debatable, and I agree with you to an extent; some books are too difficult for a middleschooler or highschooler to understand, but are they worse and less relevant than other works? No.

>ANTI-BIAS
This pure nonsense, there is no such thing as anti-bias, everything is biased, and by putting equal measure of gay, trans, women, black, and white male literature you are disregarding the actual quality. Yes, women and minorities were getting fucked for the past couple millennia, but now we finally have equal opportunities for writing literature, and we should support people to write good books, not try to throw out old good books and put some other ones in their place. Perhaps, in my opinion probably, in the near future there will be a great number of high quality literature produced by women and minorities, but by fucking around with the western canon you are achieving nothing.

>>17918264
Marx's life proved marx wrong

>>17849385
>Wrongk
Why do people pronounce it like this?

>>17797888
>don't write the truth, my feefees can't handle it!

Are there any actual methods by which you can improve your mentality and in a self-directed fashion, work through your traumas?
I am someone who struggles to cope with smoking weed for instance, after a few years of smoking it many subsconcious thoughts came to mind and I found myself struggling to cope with them. My flaws were laid bare. To this day, I struggle to smoke weed.
In other words, is there a way to communicate with and befriend my anima? Or is it a wasteful and even insulting effort to aim for that?

It's getting to the point where I'm not even sure where I stand in the midst of these cringe culture wars. I think trans people must be pretty courageous for example, but having suffered identity issues myself, I worry we're just democratizing and solidifying mental illness. I don't mean that in a harsh way, I just worry that people are being sold down the river and it really saddens me.
The same could go for a lot of other things. This express racism I see on both sides makes me shrug a litlte bit and I just feel neutral about the whole thing.
I also feel afraid of actually saying that because I'll (quite rightly) be seen as a pussy by one side, and a stupid bigot by the other. I'm milquetoast but often because I'm not sure what is actually best for people and I don't profess to know. Someone asked me to use their new pronouns recently and while I did, I just felt a little scummy about the whole thing. Surely this many people can't be trans, surely it's just a huge fashion trend?
Are there any books for midwits like me struggling to find his feet? I don't want to be a pawn for either side to use and I surely don't want to be as ravenous as these dramatic idiots on both sides. That said, it would be nice to feel sure of an opinion from time to time.

What reading material led you to where you are on the political spectrum?