/lit/ - Literature

Because I care about human art and enjoy exposing myself to new mindsets such as those of ancient people.

>>15354765
If you really have to ask... then maybe this isn't for you. You shouldn't read the canon. Do not bother.

>>15354784
All I'm reading is "I don't have an answer"
>>15354776
"new mindsets"

They're both things people should be doing for enjoyment.

I do not think I will, actually, and the reason I won't is quite simple. I'll explain it to you. The reason I won't list any reasons that make the canon worth reading is irrespective of what I say you will continue to be a fuckwit, very probably addicted to video games, pornography and memes, an inference I make by your choice of attached image and the way you structure your question. You're a vulgar triviality who lacks honest appreciation for even the simplest things, so to provide you with even any reason that makes the canon worth reading would be to cast pearls before swine, something I have been advised never to do. Do you have something vulgar and trivial to say in response maybe?

>>15355314
I fucked your mom lmao

she loved it

>>15355326
Thank you for proving me right, you subhuman ape. Stay retarded.

>>15354765
>this level of insecurity and anti-intellectual faggotry
Filtered.

>>15355338
Lol he's so mad his mom got that long dick
>>15355339
>needing to read dry old books to feel like an intellectual
found the guy that failed pre-calculus

>>15354765
Knowing how humanity itself developed, what writers and works had the effect on society etc. is more important than knowing about "Stranger Things".

>>15355441
Oh so you are a STEM bug? It all makes sense now

>>15354765
The most material answer, which strikes me as the one that is going to hit home the hardest for you, is: cultural capital.

Read Bourdieu’s “Distinction” and then come back.

>>15355441
brainlet cope

>>15354765
>>15354822
>>15355326
>>15355441

The levels of faggotry in this bait attempt are impressive.

>what's the difference between several thousand years of the most important expressions humanity has chosen to cherish and one decade of disposable pop culture
Fuck man, who knows

>>15354765
>Is it really more "enriching" to know a bunch of shit from hundreds of years ago if nobody else knows it?
>Are you doing anything more than slow-jerking your ego and circle-jerking with a bunch of people who have a bunch of extra time to read boring bullshit?
Aren't those two parts of your post in contradiction with each other?

>>15356357
Not really considering the "nobody knows" portion was hyperbole.
>>15356334
OK
>>15356283
>can't learn anything important so just reads books and thinks it makes up for it.
ouch.
>>15356252
>they make more than me, are smarter and more creative BUT I READ THE CLASSICS SO I'M BETTER
This is you that's how you look.

>>15356355
OP BTFO'd

>>15356645
STEMfags are anything but creative.

>Stranger Things

I swear this /tv/ fags surprise me everyday.

>>15356665
yeah dude actually building something or improving on an existing design isn't creative at all.

>>15356696
Yes.

>>15354765
>how does understanding the works of choice geniuses throughout history any better than understanding references in jewish sitcoms
I have nothing to say here, anon. If the answer isn't apparent, it will never be apparent.

>>15356701
> this is what people who read books for college actually believe

>>15354765
It trains your brain into recognizing systems of symbols and communication that operate on a level which most people are ignorant of. Almost like seeing the matrix.

But also it is fun.

It’s like lifting weights
If you just do bench press every day, you’re not going to see much of any results.
If you do a variety of exercises And eat healthy you’re going to get ripped

>>15356724
I'm in STEM. There's absolutely zero creativity here. Art is fundamentally more fertile.

>>15356911
I work with databases and NOSQL for a living and I have found that reading novels has increased my ability to visualize the code I write out and data tables I’m building. It has made my mind’s eye very powerful

>>15356926
Interesting. What kind of novels?

>>15355326
Lame. Not impressed dude.

>>15354765
reading is fun you dipshits

>>15354765
"How does reading the canon and understanding muh references make you better or more intelligent than someone who memorizes a bunch of 80s trivia so they can understand the nuances of a show like "Stranger Things?""

This is only a problem if all you do is memorize plot points and of course there's more to reading than that.

>>15356665
Yo, OP is a moron but don't shit talk Stem.

>>15354822
>"new mindsets"
Well if I've never experienced it, it's new to me.

>>15357030
I'm a physicist and I can tell you firsthand that he's right and 95% of stemlords are creatively bankrupt. Engineers are narrow-minded autists and CS kids are bumbling retards being outcompeted by third-worlders raised in mud huts.

>>15357008
Anything really, but over the past couple years I’ve made a dent in the major classics. So Moby Dick, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Dostoevsky’s works. It’s hard for me to put it into words, but I am certain it has helped me to improve my critical thinking

>>15357084
I think it makes sense that reading helps you visualize code given that when you read a novel you are visualizing the action in your mind, so later when you engage with a programming language (which is obviously another language at the end of the day) your brain also begins to do this process because it has been trained to do so. Maybe there's even some study about this already. This could be of help to many people, I presume.

>>15355314
I dangled my pearly balls before your swine mother's mouth, and she licked them real nice

>>15354765
You are comparing being able to read something like Ulysses to reading Ready Player One. Come on dude we can do better.

>>15357617
There are no objective values

>>15357598
>still seething after all these hours

>>15357642
There's still critical consensus on what constitutes great literature.