/lit/ - Literature

>>17683573
Purge it with promethium!

>>17683573
Yes you should be banned from reading philosophy until you are over 50 years old and have passed a test
also no academics allowed

>>17683601
basado

>>17683573
Philosophy already has filters to trap the nitwits. I don't know what Pewds recommended but it's probably one of them, like Meditations by Aurelius.

>PEWDIEPIE READS PHILOSOPHY JUST LIKE US

>>17683573
Gatekeeping literature is much more than wanting people not to read the books you like. The key aspect is to relentlessly harass and bully those that misinterpret the books you like, and to make fun of them for being shallow and pretentious. 1 million people could read whatever book this is, and that would be totally fine with me, as long as they get made fun of online when they misunderstand it.

>>17683573
>should we stop kids from reading because it might dilute my pseud cred
You should be ashamed of yourself op

>>17683573
The good philosophy is already self-gatekeeping, see Heidegger for example (why do you think he said philosophy should be purposely unintelligible?).

>>17683573
How can we gatekeep literature? We can be hostile to people who ask stupid questions here or act like retards but that's gatekeeping /lit/ (which I support mind you), it's not effectively gatekeeping literature. We can't stop people from buying/downloading books and reading them. You know who can gatekeep literature? Trannymedia. Trannymedia, if left unchecked, will systematically construct a cultural-systemic wall preventing anyone developing within their system from appreciating (decent) literature. As the decades progress they will:
1) attack the value of all classic works
2) rabidly promote new works that are brain-mush
3) reinforce the new works by means of socio-cultural pressure and institutional process
So one way or another a gate is forming that will deflect most normies from literary enlightenment. Do they deserve literature? I'm not sure they do. Texts will be preserved/rediscovered for the next renaissance so don't worry.

>>17684131
This. If you don't gatekeep the plebs out of academia, they will eventually climb their way to the top and systematically remove the classics for being too elitist and racist and such, and replace them with modernist slop.

>>17683653
I don't think that's what he meant

>>17683653
>>The good philosophy is already self-gatekeeping, see Heidegger for example
Do atheists really admire a nazi cumbrain orbiting a jew whore? Is atheist democracy truly dead?

>>17684247
>Is atheist democracy truly dead?
You say that like it's a bad thing

>>17684229
>>17684247
>>17684253
Cope

>>17683573
Philsophy is worthless, let the zoomers have it

>>17684200
Also, those people have ideological intentions and have no love for the classics and preserving them for sake of posterity. Banning so-called problematic books is one step away from book burning.

Someone should but it sure as hell shouldn't be /lit/

>>17683573
the first step to being not retarded is to be kinda of retarded

>>17684268
Based

>>17683573
I'd rather they attempt to read philosophy than watch some Youtube goof play video games while yelling at the game

>>17683573
Yes let's keep every pseud on /lit/ and especially this guy >>17683601 from reading philosophy please, they're an embarrassment that never moves past maybe a first year level of undergrad philosophy major knowledge.

>>17683573
What book is this?

>>17684247
Heidegger was an unorthodox catholic.

>>17683573
can't give worse takes than modern academia

>>17684381
Redpilled

>spent all lockdown having a golly good time learning chess and just generally working my way up
>mention it to a few others that was one of the things i did to the pass time
>oh nice, that sounds quite boring though
>oh like checkers isnt it?
oh well atleast you had fun... :/
Flash forward to queen gambit
>suddenly chess is totally epic and every normie is playing it and snapping and instaing about it, basically for clout

I know i shouldn't be angry, i know i shouldnt hold hate so dearly... But for fuck sakes you guys on here see the problem right? Its not being angry about the fact that youre space has been taken over by an influx of new people, its the fact they havent arrived at this point on their own personal journey. Its group think mentality, they see the leader do something and they follow suit.

>>17685763
I hate Netflix so goddamn much.

>>17685763
>Its group think mentality, they see the leader do something and they follow suit.
Read some evopsych you retarded nigger

>>17683573
Kill me

>>17683573
This board simultaneously complains that kids aren't reading are addicted to vidya and porn, yet will also complain when they actually read and will claim we should "gatekeep" literature, because their interest in reading didn't come from social ostracization and a need to define themselves in opposite to the society that excluded them; it came from imitation of someone they look up to (which is the way it works for most normal humans), in this case a YouTuber, therefore it isn't "genuine". You are nothing but clowns without a hint of self-awareness, the greatest irony of this site is that the "NPC" meme came from it.

>>17683573
No, I don't think so. People will read what interests them. What we should do is get rid of all of the commentary and supplementary reading/sparknotes. The reader should do the heavy lifting, and people that use these things to understand a book tend to develop an inflated sense of importance because they shouldn't have been able to read it. Either that or stop attaching notions of superiority to reading altogether. A world where nobody cares that you read Schopenhauer is a beautiful intersection of time and space.

>>17685856
I seriously doubt it's the same people saying those things. People come into threads to complain about a thing, not to support it

Because we really need more people misunderstanding things or just using some barebone elements to act as if they know everything.

>>17685856
>without a hint of self-awareness
you think the 'ostracised' arent aware they had to find interests to feel included in their own way that helps them feel less alone? Any trend or movement that is majority social butterflies, you just know they'll forget about it and move onto the next thing the pack is talking about. They're like lotus.

>>17685763
>its the fact they havent arrived at this point on their own personal journey.

jesus christ, says the pseud who wouldn't have touched chess with a ten foot pole if it wasn't the typical "smart person" game. literally the only difference between you and them is you got into it on 4chan instead of through a netflix show

get over yourself, freak.

only women

>>17685919
Does baby need a wipe wipe awhh abloo bloo

>>17685919
People like you are the worst. That guy perfectly explained what it's like to enjoy something because it caught their attention on an individual/personal level for what it is in itself, and face indifference or sometimes even ridicule for it, but then witness a complete 180 on that attitude and ostracism just because of a mainstream media push to glamourise and market something.

You want to put him down while elevating the plebs, because you're the ultra smart man of the people. But you a fucking shill for normalfags who get pulled from pillar to post.

Absolute faggot, I hope you're dearest sentiments and interests become commercialised and disrespected.

>>17685820
How is that going to change his opinion, if anything it's just going to make hime hate biology too.

>>17683573
You need first to demonstrate that kids larping as intellectuals is a bad thing. I see it like martial arts, many people enters a dojo thinking they'll be like Bruce Lee in no time, only to leave one year later because it takes discipline. This process guarantees that fresh blood keeps discovering martial arts. My first book was Zarathoustra and, may Guénon (pbuh) forgive me, I misunderstood it completely (*). Now I'm more aware of being an ignorant pleb, but I don't think stopping me would have improved m'y life / protected philosophy.

> * I must confess that I remember a passage where N. Seems to agree with you, complaining that everyone fancying himself a writer will taint litterature itself
Well I left the dojo with a fit body as shredded as R.C.Waldun so fight me at my own risks.

>>17686432
good for you :D

>>17683640

>>17686406
No, he'll understand that it's something natural in humans and his understanding will calm his anger. Anger comes from a lack of understanding.

I’d much rather kids today read books than veg out on their smartphones, but feel free to yell at clouds anyway.

>>17683573
Mass literacy was one of the worst things to happen to mankind.

>all these PDP apologists who probably grew up with him

>>17688004
After a quick duckduckgo search I will take this as a compliment

>>17683573
>giving a review before even reading it

>>17684268
based

>>17685919
shit the fuck up you emotional, retarded, blind, midwitted faggot

>>17685919
GO BACK

>>17685919
GO BACK PLEB

>>17683573
Whatever that review is for, if PewDiePie recommended, it must be entry level garbage, something like Kierkegaard or Soirelius. Meaning you are gatekeeping entry level reddit garbage that you think is special or hard to understand. You need to go back.

>>17684268
baist

>>17685763
Go peasant-post on Reddit, feeling special about reading and chess says more about your upbringing and frame of mind than you’d probably care to realize.

>>17685919
based chad making all the incel chuds itt seethe

>>17688844
>>17688877
>>17688930
here comes the bro army