/lit/ - Literature

this thread is on topic. don't delete this you fucking faggots

He should have tricked them into reading max stirnir, and watch the world slowly crumble as every argument anyone makes no matter how thought out be dismissed with a single word.

>>10641702
Fuck you, this isn't on topic anymore than your chronic masturbation is a sex life. Take your shitty eceleb threads and fuck off.

>>10641702
he's not even a booktuber
get fucked manchild

>>>/tv/
>>>/yootoober/

Next PewdiePie Book Club book revealed!

>tfw 1 of the 60 million tweens
feels good

START

>>10641726
what the fuck does this have to do with pol or nazism?
>>10641741
so threads about a nobody like cliff are fine but when the most popular youtuber alive starts a book club with /lit/'s favorite book it's not okay?

source?

Can't blame him for making videos about something that genuinely interests him and trying to get his audience to do something productive with their time.

>>10641776
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ_qiYc133U

>>10641770
Pewds is a Nazi and everyone that watches his videos are also Nazis. Now anyone who reads Neech is also a Nazi. Shit is getting out of control. You’ll know it’s going off the rails when he starts reading Jung and teases Miguel Serrano that shit is going completely off the rails.

>>10641770
>so threads about a nobody like cliff are fine

two wrongs don't make a right

>>10641755
That would be horrible. Can you imagine a bunch of kids suddenly bringing up Infinite Jest whenever they want to sound smart?

>>10641780
He’s a fuckboy and he thinks he’s so smart now and reading is a fashion accessory for him and he doesn’t care about the wellbeingness of his fans.

>>10641873
why do you think so?

>>10641876
he's a millenial. His whole life is a performance

>>10641696

OK /LIT/ IF THERE HAS BEEN ONE MOMENT IN HISTORY WHERE THIS BOARD COULD HAVE HELD ANY POWER OR RELEVANCE, THIS IS IT.

THIS IS AN "ARISTOTLE TEACHES ALEXANDER" SCENARIO.
DON'T FUCKING SCREW IT.

THE GUY IS CLEARLY BROWSING THE BOARD AND HE'S CLEARLY STARTING FROM THE LOW TIER BOOKS.

THE BOARD SHOULD BE IN THE BEST STATE POSSIBLE. GIVE GOOD ADVICES FOR BOOKS. DON'T CALL EVERYONE A BRAINLET. DON'T BE EDGY OR YOU'LL TURN HIM EDGY.

FINAL OBJECTIVE: TO MAKE 60 MILLION VIEWERS LAUGH AT A JOYCE FART JOKE.

JUST IMAGINE THAT

JUST DO IT

>>10641876
It’s easy to read him. I’ve been watching him for years and you can just see that he’s a big fashion guy, and the way he tries to be “intelligently funny” in all of his social media is just so visible. He’s so big on his ‘self label’, like he really cares about how people perceive him. And I don’t believe anyone could honestly care about their fans, I think it’s all just a formality because you can’t say otherwise. Or you have to compensate for your inner insincerity when you’re showing off your intellectuality or taste, idk.

>>10641696
How do we get him to read IJ? That would be genuinely interesting desu

>>10641903
START--
WITH HEIDEGGER

I remember subbing to him when he was below 10k subs, discontinued when he just screamed 4 dick "joke" phrases over and over. I'm glad he developed some years down the line. He seems so sincere nowadays compared to what he used to be.

>>10641873
>he's threatening my ability to feel special.

Note that he goes to /gif/ every week to gather content for his YLYL show. So, either he already browses /lit/, or we should get him to.

>>10641903
This, but honestly.

is this what he had to turn to after youtube demonetized him? amazon affiliate links for books?

>>10641726
>most influential youtuber makes the youth read 19th century philosophy
>not /lit/ related

kys, this guy has more reach and the entirety of traditional television.

>>10641903
>pewdiepie reading the letters to norah on youtube

this has potential

>>10641926
>>10641934
>>10641966


OK MOTHERFUCKERS NO JOKES HERE

WE ALL AGREE HE SHOULD START WITH THE GREEKS

1. HOW DO WE SEND HIM FROM THE GREEKS TO JOYCE FART JOKES

2. DOES SOMEONE HAVE A CHART FOR THAT

3. SHOULD WE LEAVE A COMMENT TO THE VIDEO AND UPLOAD IT SO HE STARTS TO READ NEXT MONTH

WE WON'T LET YOUNG ALEXANDER SCREW THIS TIME

THIS TIME HE'LL BE A VIRTUOUS CHAD

MERRILY CRACKING JOKES ABOUT MERRILY CRACKING FARTS

the pewdiepie influx is coming.

probably better than when reddit found our top 100 list

>>10642016
to be fair, our top 100 list is reddit-tier as fuck

>>10642016
oh I missed that
got any screenshots?

>>10641991
BRAP memes could simply be a good way into Joyce

how the hell is he supposed to understand Beyond Good and Evil?

>>10642034
I don't think he will finish it

>>10642034

This is not how it works. Booktubers don't need to understand nothing. They just need to popularize the book until they find some nigger genius in Rwanda who reads Plato because he saw it on youtube and decides to make the Republic real

>>10642016
no no No NO NO NO NO N-

>>10642049
>some nigger genius in Rwanda who reads Plato because he saw it on youtube and decides to make the Republic real

Everyone make a twitter account and @ him with the tweet "start with the greeks" , for the next few weeks we must make /lit/ a greek themed board

>>10641724
what word?

POP THESE NIGGAS LIKE A WILLY NIGGA YOUS A SILLY NIGGA

>>10642083
weelie*

>>10641843

>>> /lit/

>>10642075

/clas/ here: I'm on the mission and ready to die for it. Wish me good luck.

>>10642083
this is what a subhuman looks like

>>10641933
/gif/? You mean /wsg/, right?

>>10641696
Nietzsche fags will get more prevalent and annoying, same as always.

>>10642085
>>10642091
IM ON SOME ROB A NIGGA SHIT
TAKE A NIGGA BITCH
DO THE DASH IN THE WHIP
CUT SOME CASH IN MY DICK
SHUT UP
BUT I FUCKED THAT NIGGA BITCH

>Farenheit 451
>1984
>Brave New World

The guy is literally using the /lit/ starter kit chart. He's probably reading the thread.

This is truly the abyss.

>>10641903
Go back to redd*t

He's likely here right now. I know he goes on /gif/ by proof in his YLYL videos.

You should read Joyce though and form some army of literate teenagers and preteens.

>>10642102
They're well known books anon.

wtf

Ok, I get that mods are lazy pieces of shit that dont even care about deleting the gorillions of peterson threads, but they really need to get their shit together now
MODS: DELETE ALL PEWDIEPIE THREADS, I BEG YOU, PLEASE DONT LET THIS PLACE GET ANY WORSE, WE HAVE /tv/ FOR THIS TYPE OF SHIT, LETS KEEP IT THAT WAY, PLEASE?

>>10642102
He's literally using the baby's first authoritarian fiction. If those are the books it'll all be "as we can see here, big brother is a metaphor for people who don't like me saying 'nigger'".

>>10641882
You're a millennial too unless you're 40+ oldfag

>>10641741
>he's not even a booktuber
False. He became one today.

>>10642128
Kek

he's following oprah's playbook, dude needs to do a movie tho, and have studio guests if he really wanna get on the big o level

oh no, i know what he's up to, this is all just a setup to promote that shitty peterson book

>>10642153
>dude needs to do a movie tho, and have studio guests if he really wanna get on the big o level
That's the exact kind of stuff he said he doesn't want to do.

>>10642167
well then he just doesn't have what it takes to join the billionaire class

>>10641696
>holy shit lads 60 million tweens are going to read BG&E next month what effect will this have on our solar system?

woah, millions of teenagers parents are going to freak when their kids start revaluating their parents values
this is a game changer

>>10642080
spook

>>10641696
>what effect will this have on our solar system?
nothing

Seriously, has someone even considered the meme potential in making this guy read the trilogy and listen to a very confused 10 minutes video on his personal confusion at interpreting Slothrop's erections?

what do you think he might bring as next reads to this book club? i fear something retarded entry level redpill tier shit

>>10642144
the most successful booktuber in the history of the internet within one video

>/lit/ is desperate for validation, attention and HABBENINGS so they want to reach out, and won't and this is all psychotic OMG GUYZ dorm room delusion, to a crypto-fascist capitalist YT superstar whose audience is teenagers and prepubescents who he farms for his personality disorder and also they don't give a fuck at all if he understands the books, nor does their "Disdain 4 plebz" register despite the plebeian nature of this man's mind which is blatantly obvious when one watches any video he's ever made
good stuff, never change internet

>>10642222
>i fear something retarded entry level redpill tier shit
he's starting with beyond good and evil

>>10642222
I want him to review this after dyeing his beard.


>I dip my forefinger in the watery blood of your impotent mad-redeemer (your Divine
>Democrat — your Hebrew Madman) and write over his thorn-torn brow, “The true prince
>of Evil — the king of the Slaves!”
>No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me — no cult or dogma shall encramp my pen.
>I break away from all conventions. Alone, untrammeled. I raise up in stern invasion the
>standard of Strong.
>I gaze into the glassy eye of your fearsome Jehovah, and pluck him by the beard — I uplift
>a broad-axe and split open his worm-eaten skull.

>I blast out the ghastly contents of philosophic whited
>sepulchres and laugh with sardonic wrath.

>Then reaching up the festering and varnished facades of
>your haughtiest moral dogmas, I write thereon in letters of blazing
>scorn: — "Lo and behold, all this is fraud!"

>all these elitists
Calm down he’s just starting out

>>10641696
>what effect will this have on our solar system?
Relatively none. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

>>10642227
(you)

>>10642237
wow someone copied Nietzsche and did the nordicist LARP

>>10641903
>>10641991
Holy shit you fucking redditor. You're what's wrong with this board.

>>10642262
>>10642105

Why is that reddit?

>>10641903
>>10641991
i'm in only to spite this fag >>10642262

>>10642229
we know why, will he yield a good direction or slip into /pol memes?

Good on him for starting to read and encouraging others to do so. I'm trying to find a valid reason to hate on this, but I can't. It wont stop me though.

I can't help feeling utter disgust knowing that normies and Pewdiepie fans are going to suddenly find literature "cool" and completely ruin things by misinterpreting classic books.

I don't believe his influence will be a positive one. It's all a part of his "I've grown up now! Look how serious and trendy I am!" act. I'm not falling for this neo/hipster Pewdiepie shit. Give it a few years and wait to see what other bandwagons he can jump on and ruin with his fanbase. I'm disgusted at how he's using this board's beginner's suggestions (painfully obvious) in order to make himself seem smarter and more sophisticated.

Everyone talks about how "Pewdiepie isn't that bad anymore" but literally all his videos are just him reacting to recycled memes posted on Reddit, and smug, lazy commentary of whatever is trending at the moment. He is making MILLIONS of dollars off of everyone else's work and/or passions. Everything about "new Pewdiepie" is stolen off of 4chan and Reddit.

Pewdiepie, if you're reading this: kindly fuck off. Find something else no one gives a shit about and use and abuse it until something else comes up that you can make money off. Some of us see through you and what you're doing. Just don't ruin literature for us.

Here's a suggestion: Try educating your fanbase on how Europe and western civilization and culture is dying before our very own eyes. Being Swedish, you should be very knowledgeable on this subject.

Sorry if this post is a messy rant, but Pewdiepie now trying to jump on the literature bandwagon is just completely ridiculous. He's really outdone himself this time. This might be the worst thing I've seen this year, and possibly for the rest of 2018.

>>10642304
Go back to reddi*

>>10642314

>>10642304
>he gives a fuck what other people do
lmao, I remember being 12.

If he does it annual then that would be cool I guess

>>10642304
Hej Felix, hur er läget?

This thread is proof enough of how dead this board is.

Have fun with the incoming Pewdiepie fans asking about Nietzsche and other dumb shit. I'm out.

>>10642323
> implying we don’t already have retards asking about Nietzsche

>>10642323
I feel like it got really bad the past three days

>>10642304
How does it ‘ruin’ literature though? So in order for literature to NOT be ruined, it has to stay obscure and untouched by ‘normies’? You can still do what you want, idk how it’s called ‘ruined’. Maybe you’re the faggot one. Maybe, for you, one of the enjoyment in literature is when people can also appreciate what you’re doing. And when people can’t appreciate you anymore, even if you can still do it anytime, you feel like it’s “ruined”. You put too much value in ‘recognition’ and ‘appreciation’, not the whole stuffs that you read themselves.

>>10642335
If you even have to ask this you're part of the problem

>>10642304
> western civilization is dying
Please go back to /pol/

>>10642323
>>10642328

I don't understand these kind of comments. What the fuck are you even on 4chan for? Do you expect to have high tier intellectual discussion on the internet? Join an actual book club. Get a PhD in literature. These are examples of places where people try to have serious conversations about books.
Why are you searching for serious discussion on a korean board which was made to post anime titties in the first place?

>>10641882
What a superficial and ambiguous criticism. In a sense it's the perfect criticism becaise it sounds intelligent, yet doesnt require empirical evidence (in fact no such evidence could exist for such a claim, since it's not even empirical in nature), it can be levied at anyone, it's difficult to refute, it calls into question anything the individual being criticized does or says as "ungenuine", and it simultaneously suggests that the critic is themselves authentic.

That being said - and in fact for those very same reasons - labeling someone's life or behavior as a mere performance is a slippery slope, since it's liavle to cone right back at you. Anyone and everyone is living a life characterized by inauthentic performance. Anyone and everyone is also completely overwhelmed by their utter inability to esacpe their own authenticity and sincerity.

>>10642337
No but it’s just weird how something has to be obscure first, before we can enjoy it. I personally don’t give a shit if more people abuse this activity, because so what, I still get to read anything I want anyway, so Idk why I should care. Except if appreciation and recognition is part of the enjoyment in getting into literature. This whole ‘flight’ thing in hobbies is ridiculous. It just proves how you never belong in this hobby from the first day.

>>10641696
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPe8EuWNqHA

>>10641903
buddy he's gonna read whatever he wants to read. yeah he goes on 4chan + a million other internet holes.

his 'dumb tween influencer with quirky malapropisms every 20 seconds' schtick is at least 50% an act. nigga wiped the floor with the Wall Street Journal and made it look easy.

>>10642346
No the problem is that it shifts from shitposting about lit to shitposting about yt celebs manlets soyboys ect and the former material is atleast funny or has effort like a jobless husserl shitpost or that one about stealing a fucking artemis fowl book from barnes and noble

>>10641696
I only read esoteric shit so I don't care.

>>10642109
>Yfw he creates an army of fart fetishists, endlessly brapposting on every sight, causing the resurrection of Joyce, who manifests as a giant green cloud

>>10642304
This is a messy rant

>Good on him... I can't help feeling utter disgust...

I'm trying to find a valid reason to hate this and I have found a reason. Were you beaten as a child?
>I'm disgusted at how he's using this board's beginner's suggestions (painfully obvious)

He picked three well known books that happened to be a part of lit's starter kit (or at least one of the many variants of it) which he says he picked because they're very much so related to 1984, I'm expecting that if he showed a copy of Clockwork Orange within the video you would have ejaculated, point into the retinas though perhaps that poster behind him didn't stop you. And Dorian Gray was recommended by his gf if you paid attention
>He's lying

Jump in some compost and rot into worms.
I was going to go through this whole post utter shite by utter twoddle but I can't be arsed and deleted a majority of what I was going to post in order to be more coherent, a less messy rant if you will.

>>10642304
>Try educating your fanbase on how Europe and western civilization and culture is dying before our very own eyes.

You could have summed up your post by just writing "I'd rather he read Schopenhauer."

Oh my god I didn’t realize /lit/ was full of elitist faggots. Like, something is so appreciated if there’s a chance that normies find it ‘difficult’ and ‘obscure’? That when normies found it and start to meme it, it stops being good anymore? Man I thought finding 4chan was the greatest enlightenment I ever had.

>>10642352
You're missing the entire point, newfags reading Nietzsche ruins discourse on Nietzsche and his reputation. It has nothing to do with obscurity. Descartes and Plato are not obscure thinkers but they don't attract bottom of the barrel readers and they're much easier to interpret as well

>>10642373
Nope you're just part of the "normies who find it and start to meme it"

>>10642362
fuckin love jobless husserl bro that was one of the greatest lits

i dont feel very strongly about this in either direction

>>10642373
>Oh my god I didn’t realize /lit/ was full of elitist faggots.
How new? Literature itself breeds elitism. Elitists run rampant in the domain.

>>10642374
But it shouldn’t be important. It should be more about what you can personally learn from the book and how it shapes you as a person, not the communal jerkoffery about a person. This is not literature related.

>>10642362

I agree but how many threads do you see with that level of effort on every board? You are lucky if there's one out of every ten. You stay here, you insult people in shit-tier boards and call them plebs, and then once in a while you receive a good thread as a gift.
I mean, I hate the Peterson's thread as well, but I've never seen a board on 4chan were there are more god-tier threads than shit-tier threads

>>10642387
>This is not literature related.
Discussing literature is the entire point of this board. That requires interaction with other people familiar with the works, when those people are juvenile fools who misinterpret the author and lower the level of discourse, it becomes a problem. You're dodging around the problem and attributing it to some elitist vanity affecting personal enjoyment while reading, when it is fucking obviously a problem regarding discussion around what is read after the fact. That is how I know you are part of the problem, because this should be intuitive

>>10642319
I hope you realise 60 million people are subscribed to him. 60 million of the worst kind of people in the world.

I don't give a shit about him personally. I do give a shit about how much negative influence he has on anything he even breathes near.

It makes me very angry to see that one single completely unoriginal and uneducated person is about to make a lot of money off of literature. It is a complete disrespect to us and many others.

>>10642335
Ask yourself, why did you start reading? What attracted you to books? What attracted you to philosophy and/or gaining knowledge?

Most of our reasons and intentions were valid, pure, genuinely curious. Some of us even felt like we were lacking something, a void that only books have managed to fulfill. Now this asshole has made reading "cool". As a result, thousands, if not millions, will start reading ONLY because "Pewdiepie read this book, it's cool now!".

I'm not going to elaborate any more. Think about it, for fucks sake. It's just painfully obvious why this is wrong for so many reasons.


Also, this >>10642374

>>10642407
Yeah it’s a natural intuition of an elitist who ‘hobby flights’.

>>10642407
To add on, as a result obscurity actual does increase the quality of discussion because it forces a kind of barrier of effort. On the internet at large people discussing Kant are going to be more useful than the rabble around Nietzsche, similar to discussion on this site around meme thinkers like Evola compared to a Guenon

>>10642417
>‘hobby flights’.
What?

>>10642344
Please go back to the Karl Marx thread so all the retarded commies can be contained there

Everyone was a newfag once. Time will tell whether they stay because they really are competent or leave because it gets boring.

>>10642420
>people discussing Kant are going to be more useful than the rabble around Nietzsche
A better example might actually be Montaigne vs Nietzsche discussion

>>10642424
Like white flight but hobby. You know, when you stop liking radiohead when it’s not seen as ‘difficult’ or patrician anymore. Like the patricianism of it was judged merely by how normies see it as patrician, not the actual quality of the stuff itself.

>>10642427
Or enough come at once to change the demographic drastically enough to alter the board culture to their own...

>>10642426
>WHAT?!
>YOU DON'T THINK THE WORLD IS ENDING!?!
>HOW DARE YOU THINK FOR YOURSELF, DON'T YOU KNOW THAT THE JEWS ARE THE CAUSE OF EVERY PROBLEM EVER?
For someone who hates Jews you sure act like one.

>>10642431
No ones doing that here, people are abandoning the medium for discussion, they condemn /lit/, not the authors. Although in the case of Nietzsche his pop culture status has been affected enough to where even in academia if you study him there's that initial residue of teen edginess, let alone the connotation of it to the laymen

>>10642416
>I'm not going to elaborate any more. Think about it, for fucks sake. It's just painfully obvious why this is wrong for so many reasons.
Not really because I'm not a pretentious loser

>>10642407
I’m not dodging around the problem, I just don’t see it as a problem and I see something else as the problem.

See, the thing is, you can always have your own patrician opinions on something and it will always be significantly obvious when someone is a newfag and interpreting it wrongly. Argument tramples everything. I still can’t see how this whole thing is a danger or a red flag. A discourse will not be ruined as long as YOU and other people like you who still have the right and effective perspective, still exist. The most sensible voice will always be heard the most.

Why are you guys ranting about the board? Is it that important what happens here?

>>10642457
>Is it that important what happens here?
It's the only place to discuss literature and philosophy in a relaxed funny way

>>10642416
>Some of us even felt like we were lacking something, a void that only books have managed to fulfill. Now this asshole has made reading "cool". As a result, thousands, if not millions, will start reading ONLY because "Pewdiepie read this book, it's cool now!".

How does that ruin books on how they fill the void in you?

>>10642467

How about real people? Here there is mostly bitter and lonely people - which is fine - but if you want to have actual funny and relaxed discussion real life is usually better

>>10642474
>How about real people?
>just go outside lol
Do you think before you speak? Or are the colleges on the west coast of America intellectually barren wastelands, because I do- am not even going to finish typing, what the fuck do you think? Have you ever met anyone in real life actually interested in Greek literature and German philosophy? Even in literature departments most don't read that for fun

>>10642433
No one mentioned jews except you

>>10641873
grow up you twat

>>10642485

In Italy we learn Greek and Latin in high school so yes, I've been talking to people from different backgrounds who enjoy reading that classics for fun since I was 14.
I'm sorry to hear you live in a barren wasteland, though.

>>10642506
Well fuck then

>>10641843
This is irony, right?

Pewdiepie doesn't actually appeal to Gen Z, his viewers are all 25+ marketers and trend-watchers trying to figure out Gen Z.

Thread not fun anymore.
Everyone is super butthurt and bitter about life for personal reasons in here, I'm going to report a couple of Petersons threads before sleeping and post some memes on the optimistic nihilism thread if it's still on - goodnight.

>>10642485
Just talk to your mum, dude. She will listen to you all day long talking about Heidegger or whatever. She misses you, anon.

>>10642304
>>10642337
>>10642374

Totally understand your sentiment. But it’s not THAT bad like what you implied. This too happened to me. For me, it was /fa/. It’s basically normiechan 2012 now, it’s totally dead. But what am I thinking now? I’m just thinking where all the old patricians are right now. Cus wherever they are now, I want to be there with the likeminded. I don’t regret /fa/, I don’t blame anyone for coming in, because /fa/ wasn’t created by people like me or for people like me. So I’m not entitled to it. I don’t wish normies could be abolished from 4chan, I just wish i could regroup with the patricians that have left 4chan. Because I’m not entitled to this shit, I didn’t create it, nor was it created specifically FOR me.

Let me tell you something anons.
Have you ever heard about videogames? popular youtubers like Pewds play them all the time, and people assume that if you get him to show your product to millions of people that will translate into sales.

That actually rarely happens, its all down to demographics, if his audience cannot be arsed to play the same videogames he plays I doubt they will be arsed to read Nietzsche.

>>10642525
owwwww

>>10642373
>Oh my god I didn’t realize /lit/ was full of elitist faggots.

Kek

>>10642023
because it wasn't ""ours"" in any sense

>>10641696
>Implying this man child can comprehend Nietzsche

He's doing it for the views and angry detractors will generate more hate and outrage untoward his channel.

>>10642025
Why would we want that? Post-ironic accelerationism? Joyce might be more of a pseud than Nietzsche.

>>10642695
>He's doing it for the views
yeah dude nietzsche book reviews is where all the money is at

>>10642373
>Oh my god I didn’t realize /lit/ was full of elitist faggots

I read everything from Plato to Schopenhauer before I even read the wiki on Nietzsche. Why are YouTubers so arrogant.

>>10642726
For a lot of modern people Nietzsche is a trigger, he's a Nazi etc. Pewds probably knows this to antagonise

>>10642136
> big brother is a metaphor for people who don't like me saying 'nigger'"

/pol/ in one sentence

This is like when you have had a niche hobby for years and it suddenly unexpectedly becomes popular but with the wrong crowd of people. At least he isn't encouraging Murakami.

>>10642099
>CUT SOME CASH IN MY DICK
what did he mean by this

>>10642237
its liked aliester crowley popped his fedora on

>>10642695
>implying Nietzsche wasn't a man child.

>>10642432
keep your racism to yourself please
I welcome these pewdiepie posters #welcome

>>10642809
That is the only way to do it. I just don't understand anyone who wants to read Nietzsche without familiarity with the subjects he critiques

>>10642857
>At least he isn't encouraging Murakami.
....what? That would be much better and make much more sense

>>10641991
The Greeks? Yeah fucking right no one who doesn't give a shit about philosophy has any care in the world to start with greeks

They need existentialism and nihilism as the discovery point for why philosophy is relevant at all. That's how it was for me. Ironic memes and popularity of Rick and Morty are inexplicably tied on a philistine level to the likes of Camus and Dostoyevsky.

>>10642900

I know what you mean. Murakami is basically books for people who din't like real literature yet want to sound smart for reading a Japanese author.

>>10642900
in what timeline would reading murakami be more important than reading nietzsche

>tfw pewdiepie has more viewers than nietzsche has readers

>>10642921
Nah I'd wager Nietzsche has had more readers since the 19th century than PewDiePie. The real question is who is going to be more influential

>>10642134
Mods? On Lit? Surely you jest.

>>10642347
spotted the Kierkgaardian

>>10641882

>criticize someone for the period of time they were born

>>10642857
>Murakami
Now I really want him to trick his followers into reading 1Q84. Like >>10642153 said, he could be the millennial equivalent of Oprah's Book Club if he keeps this up. It is a great opportunity to get some young impressionable people to read some actual /lit/.

>>10642525
>tfw I was an edgy teenage atheist who quoted Nietzsche and Ivan Karamazov in "Rebellion" and "The Grand Inquisitor"
>my sweet, Baptist mother read Darwin, Dawkins, and Sam Harris in an attempt to connect with me

>tfw I became an edgy teenage theist who loved Either/Or and Paul Tillich
>my sweet, now-atheist mother read "Fear and Trembling" in an attempt to connect with me
HOW DO I REPENT?!