/lit/ - Literature

>>13134711
Unrelated, is Ellul based beyond The Technological Society? Didn’t the man write like fifty odd books and a few hundred articles or some shit? Are they worth reading?

>>13134873
Yes, he also wrote a book on propaganda, two more books on technology, and a shitload of books on Christian theology, namely The Subversion of Christianity, which are all criminally underrated.

“It is what it is”

Yes I understand what it means and yes I get that the redundancy is part of its charm, but as a platitude it really is worthless. It’s often used in situations where it isn’t necessarily written in stone that it has to exist in such a way, and when it does ring true it never contributes or does anything to further the conversation. It’s the verbal equivalent to a fart.

>>13134711
>just be yourself

anything resembling
>pull yourself up by your bootstraps

>>13135205
C'est la vie

>>13135205
It's not very deep but it has an integral social and rhetorical purpose, hence its overuse. All platitudes and aphorisms are the written/spoken equivalents to a fart, intelectuallyspeaking.

>>13134711

This is not properly a word of wisdom by itself, but there is the often used beautifully shallow interaction:

>If only you agreed exactly to my specific and particular views on the matter at hand you would be absolutely enlightened and leave at once your absurd deviations of the truth.

>Very well then, enlighten me!

>...You just do the research yourself, I will not waste my emotional labor with you.

>>13134711
>'Paradox' is the name idiots use to coin the truth.

>>13134711
>>13134711

>if you dont love yourself you cant love others.
>if you dont love yourself nobody will

>>13134873
He wrote lots of interesting books, mostly about theology. But I don't really like him, he's kinda of an American boomer, with his Protestantism and muh liberties. A really interesting and underrated author though.

>>13135205
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj8ifpehLHU

>>13134711
Might not be as common in English as in my native language.
>It is always in the last place you look

Of course it is, you're not going to search more after you've found it. It seems redundant.

>>13136196
First one is true second one isn't

>>13136280
He was Catholic you moron.

>>13135205
it's an empty response when someone's complaints are trivial

>>13135228
What did you just say you entitled millennial?

so /lit/ is now just complaining about the phrases girls post on their instagram stories?

>>13136895
You obviously know nothing about Ellul, his Protestantism is present everywhere in his work.

>Of Logic and its neglect, and the consequent strange Illogicality of many even of our principal writers—hence our Crumbly friable Stile, each Author a mere Hour-Glass, and if we go on in this way, we shall soon have undone all that Aristotle did for the human Race, and come back to Proverbs and Apologues
>The multitude of Maxims, Aphorisms, and Sentences and their popularity among the French, the beginners of this Style, is it some proof and omen of this?