/lit/ - Literature

>Adulting [Full Post]
>The guy who created Spider-Man and the Hulk has died, and America is in mourning. Deep, deep mourning for a man who inspired millions to, I don’t know, watch a movie, I guess. Someone on Reddit posted, “I'm so incredibly grateful I lived in a world that included Stan Lee.” Personally, I’m grateful I lived in a world that included oxygen and trees, but to each his own. Now, I have nothing against comic books – I read them now and then when I was a kid and I was all out of Hardy Boys. But the assumption everyone had back then, both the adults and the kids, was that comics were for kids, and when you grew up you moved on to big-boy books without the pictures.

>But then twenty years or so ago, something happened – adults decided they didn’t have to give up kid stuff. And so they pretended comic books were actually sophisticated literature. And because America has over 4,500 colleges – which means we need more professors than we have smart people – some dumb people got to be professors by writing theses with titles like Otherness and Heterodoxy in the Silver Surfer. And now when adults are forced to do grown-up things like buy auto insurance, they call it “adulting,” and act like it’s some giant struggle.

>I’m not saying we’ve necessarily gotten stupider. The average Joe is smarter in a lot of ways than he was in, say, the 1940s, when a big night out was a Three Stooges short and a Carmen Miranda musical. The problem is, we’re using our smarts on stupid stuff. I don’t think it’s a huge stretch to suggest that Donald Trump could only get elected in a country that thinks comic books are important.

Back in the day people also had the assumption that liberals were the fighers for human rights, decency, and free speech. Apparently they grew up and became militant communists.

>>12096291
i for one, enjoy watching the left eating their own.

I think the wheel breaks when Bill Maher flips

>>12096298
>I don’t think it’s a huge stretch to suggest that Donald Trump could only get elected in a country that thinks comic books are important.
except that I doubt these groups of people intersect at all. hmmm

>>12096337
They both have no roots or knowledge of the traditions of their ancestors. But people in the old world are dumb enough to imitate everything Americans do wrong so soon this won't matter anymore.

>>12096298
He was well on his way of making a good, albeit banal point on the millenial's arrested development, until he betrayed his own lack of self-awareness by bringing "le orange clown man" into it. If I'm not mistaken, there were times he referred the left as "The Resistance."

>>12096291
can someone post the link

>>12096330
Bill Maher isn't really a leftist. He's always been more of a liberal.

>>12096315
3/8 needs more spice

>>12096404
you can see it in his eyes that he supports trump.

Trump is the most liberal Republican president we will ever see.

It's a shame Bill won't be true to himself

>>12096404
based

>>12096403
see >>12096298
https://www.real-time-with-bill-maher-blog.com/index/2018/11/16/adulting

>>12096298
I liked Spiderman when I was a kid. I think most people who care about capeshit are kids?

>>12096298
>I don’t think it’s a huge stretch to suggest that Donald Trump could only get elected in a country that thinks comic books are important.
What a stunning lack of self awareness. I do more or less agree with this tired point though. Man-children belong in camps

>>12096337
The common denominator is anti-intellectualism

>>12096656
i mean the left and their childish ways paved the way for Trump, they just don't like to see themselves in a mirror
https://viaobscuramedia.com/2018/11/16/the-normalcy-of-donald-j-trump/

also isn't Maher all about using profanities on polite discourse? hasn't he been one of the biggest promoters of the kind of speech and public norms where now Trump stands?

>>12096298
>But the assumption everyone had back then, both the adults and the kids, was that comics were for kids, and when you grew up you moved on to big-boy books without the pictures
God I miss the times when adults consumed adult media like Spielberg movies and Grisham novels.

>>12096676
There's a difference between using profanities and behaving like an all-out clown. Far from making any attempts to heal the cultural divide, Trump with his characteristic lack of diplomacy has done all he can to exacerbate it, dividing and conquering. And then of course there's his lying problem. He lies so frequently and pathetically that we've simply begun to take it for granted.

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>>12096298
You must be insufferable.

>>12096711
the slippery slope fallacy is not a fallacy at all if you pay any attention. lol, yeah, no politican lied blatantly before trump. the only thing i can buy from everything you said is the diplomacy thing

>>12096711
>entire institutional power including media, academia, entertainment, and both political parties literally call him a Nazi
>get mad when he wins and doesn’t extend an olive branch

Lol ok kid. I think Trump is a dumb nigger faggot but he was elected because of your kind of people, not his kind of people.

Seems odd for someone with a television program to mention the immaturity of pictures.

I think more general awareness of the classics and their mythology would alleviate people's need for comics as a frame of reference.

But what do I know