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Well, /lit/? Which literary intellectuals' writings would you say are the most important in American society today?

I would say

1. the writer and author of literature Steve Sailer
2. the writer and author of literature Matthew Yglesias
3. the writer and author of literature Noam Chomsky
4. the writer and author of literature Paul Krugman
5. the writer and author of literature Curtis Yarvin

>> No.10560719

>>10560705
>1. the writer and author of literature
>2. the writer and author of literature
>3. the writer and author of literature
>4. the writer and author of literature
>5. the writer and author of literature

say some dumb shit like that one more time and see if i don't come over there and slap your dumbass

>> No.10560722

Peterson

>> No.10560731

define "important"

>> No.10560746

>>10560705
None of them are important at all. I think literary critics are like kites (note the t), all they do is float with the wind, they never actually have an affect on the discourse itself

>> No.10560760

>>10560705
Me and my shitposting desu

>> No.10560766

American "intellectuals"? Youtube fraudsters, hardcore demagogues and con artists.

>> No.10560808

>>10560719
This is a literature board. If you don't want to discuss literature and writers and authors of literature you should find another board to post on

>> No.10560810

The last true public intellectual in the United States is probably Chomsky, and even he's just a pale shadow of, say, Gore Vidal.

>> No.10562521

>>10560705
Can this pleb not count to 5?

>> No.10562549
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10562549

1. Witten
2. Edward Witten
3. Edward Witten, the most important living physicist
4. The only physicist to ever win a Fields Medal, Edward Witten
5. Ed Witten

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>>10560705
In popular culture?
In order of greatest influence on current American society with the prerequisite of being currently alive and publically recognizable
Chomsky, Bannon, Krugmen, Peterson, Zizek
in that order

american 'left', alt-right, actual american ''left'', republican babby's first intellectual, man who every leftist follows on FB in addition to Humans of Late Capitalism

>> No.10562599

>>10562593
Need to inseminate this thot

>> No.10564189

>>10560705
PLEASUREMAN

>> No.10564198

>>10560810
Vidal is not anywhere near Chomsky' s level of analysis.