/lit/ - Literature

>>18900247
I love the “books are not good enough for forming strong personal opinions” he wrote in a book. Classic

Schopenhauer once said that reading too much made you stupid.

>>18900247
Cicero was far more practical than Locke and Bacon.

>>18900289
>Curious!

So this is the power of American "philosophy"...

>>18900247
This is why it's important to be /lit/, /fit/ and /out/. The holly trinity.

>>18900384
>The holly trinity.
That would be /lit/, /sp/, and /mlp/.

>>18900247
Yeah, Cicero, the meek young man defending lost cause controversial cases as a lawyer, serving in government as a goad to political elites in a time where any politician was vulnerable to assassination, traveled widely and, as far as mere language is concerned, established the parameters for persuasive, moving and engaging language more than perhaps anybody in history... not to mention his ideals laying dormant, flourishing as the Renaissance. Of course, any donwtime could be excused by having a lifelong infirmity. What did Emerson do again? Like, single-handedly liberate a country or something?

>>18900428
>reading comprehension

Literally all three of these guys wrote their greatest works when they were past age 50.

>>18900247
i read self reliance last year and i absolutely hated it. what a load of crap this guy is.

>>18900441
Self Reliance was based fuck you.

>>18900445
yeah man fuck you too

>>18900247
Emerson, 'just be yourself, bro' the philosopher.

>>18900445
>>18900451
Can you stop fucking each other, please? /lit/ isn't some cheap brothel. It's a high-class one.

>>18900428
>Like, single-handedly liberate a country or something?
Only retards who believe in personality cults think deeds like this were done by single men, and that circumstances never played a part.

>>18900434
Statement: they were young men in the libraries and, it's clearly implied, that's the origin of their wisdom.
Reality: Cicero's earliest works were transcriptions of court cases, later works written as an old man, nor was he meek man in a library when young.

There is nothing to comprehend about what Emerson is saying (except the general sentiment of, as noted above, his gentle and accordingly inane just-be-yourselfism) because it's so ignorant and discordant with historical facts freely available to anybody for the last 500 years.

>>18900441
Self Reliance is just petty bourgeois non-sense and puritan apologia for capitalism. Americans always speak of "individualism" when their "individualism" has been nothing but a fraud. Americans are privileged labor aristocrats who believe their good fortunate come honest work. We all know that's an honest lie; its just a product of slavery, genocide and US imperialism.

>>18900480
You realise that part was written ironically to discredit Emerson...

>>18900491
Are you saying that slavery, genocide and imperialism aren't hard work?

>>18900480
only layabouts and mediocres go out of their way to argue against the impact one person can have. "muh collectivism!" "muh circumstances"

get out of bed and do some pushups

>>18900491
What product of slavery has benefitted an American in the last hundred years?

>>18900491
and now this bait will derail the thread

>>18900554
All of America is stolen land. All the resources, firms, most of the people on it are colonizers larping as proletarians. America the home of the lazy and parasitic. Late stage capitalism, and imperialism, over there is slowly just churning it down the drain. Hopefully, it isn't taking the entire world with it.

>>18900539
"Individualism" has infected that putrid American mind of yours. No great men have existed, and certainly have never existed in America.

>>18900607
Do leftoids/yuros really believe this

>>18900646
please don't take the bait

>>18900646
I'm not sure why you would use Ben Franklin as an example when the founding fathers were explicitly against personality cults. You don't even know the beliefs of the people you praise. What a fucking retard.

>>18900671
>no great men existed
>certainly not in America
>why did you post Franklin
Ahehehohohuehuehue

>he thinks i elevate Philosophers or Authors to flawless all-knowing god status
If anything realizing how autistic and weird some of them are makes me more drawn to them.

>>18900247
young bad

>>18900599
>America is stolen land
capitalist trillionaires gave you this opinion
>All the resources
in control by asset management firms like Blackrock and Vanguard
>most of the people on it are colonizers larping as proletarians
Americans are basically slaves. Go to the third world and see they literally live better and freer lives than us
>America the home of the lazy and parasitic
Most Americans can't even pay their rent and are killing themselves en masse
>Late stage capitalism
This was a term given to you by trillionaires (Marx is taught in publicly funded universities)
>Hopefully it isn't taking the entire world with it
Don't worry my sweet naive summer child, we're the ones who are in trouble

>>18900599
>All of America is stolen land
And now we're the rightful owners. I invite you to come fight us for it though

>>18900247
Look, there isn't a frontier anymore. If there is one, we're on it right here. This is our transcendental landscape. Emerson would be proud of /lit/ bros.

>>18900395
>/sp/ and /mlp/ are going to improve your life in anyway

>>18900247
Nonsense, because I am writing my own books myself.

>>18900646
Do americunts actually believe this man was great? Fucking hilarious.

>>18901494
yes

>>18900247
>Cicero
>young man at a library
Dude spend most of his life as a member of the Republican institutions, what's this retard trying to imply?