/lit/ - Literature

http://marcelproust.blogspot.com/2007/01/philistines-and-philistinism.html

wow, it's almost as if you posted a thoughtful soi boy thread.

>>17447152
It's pretty easy to imagine a connection between clichéd expression and clichéd thought, someone lacking the faculties to fully consider a political issue will also fail to express himself in an original way

Try semiotics. What you're interpreting as a verbal-semantic message can instead be interpreted as an impression generated from signs and acting. Rather than each phrase conveying an idea, the communique as a whole is intended to convey an impression. In the case of your Redditor, it's that he is smugly superior intellectually. It's the verbal equivalent of a smirk.

Much of normalfag socialising consists of similarly empty signs. Most of their phrases are not meant to be taken literally. They have adopted the phrases for their impressionistic qualities only. For example, "we should hang out soon" is almost never an invitation to make plans. It's just a friendly way of terminating a reunion.

>>17447152
Oh, sweet
summer child
ah, yes, wow
its almost as if

>>17447152
Sweet summer child is from Game of Thrones so that one's self-evident

I saw a normie meme the other day. It went:
>Take care of your 1998 friends. They're turning 23 soon, and no one likes you when you're 23.
Can someone explain what it means? Does it mean anything? It seems literally content-less. I'm not sure what is meant to be funny. It had hundreds maybe thousands of likes and comments.

>>17447546
It's a Blink 182 song anon. "What's my age again" the name

>>17447573
oh

>people who say condescending shit are condescending
Well no shit

>>17447546
It's like the normie equivalent of a frog image