/lit/ - Literature

nah, that was soi, redditors, marxism, and video games

>>22774621
FPBP

>>22774621
fippy bippy

>>22774613
Yeah really what a fag

He meant that you shouldn't be so pretentious that you feel that playing with your kid is beneath you, not that you should be jacking off to funko pops until your 40th birthday

>>22774831
Christianity was a jewish plot to emasculate the white race. It succeeded.

>>22774837
Cope

>>22774837
Yeah what a smashing success

>>22774613
I don't understand the quote. What does it mean?

>>22774848
He meant that you shouldn't be so pretentious that you feel that playing with your kid is beneath you, not that you should be jacking off to funko pops until your 40th birthday

>>22774837
>>22774839
>>22774846
Kys

>>22774848
Childhood is using Batman metaphors.
Adulthood is not giving a shit.

>>22774848
He's defending Christianity from fedora wearers calling it childish.

>>22774860
it was more about the inklings and oxford and the literary critics etc

>>22774853
Makes sense
>>22774857
Oh, you've angered batman now!
>>22774860
Didnt he write about witches wardrobes?(havent read lewis)

>>22774854
Tremendous and interesting

>>22774862
Oxford dons and literary critics are all atheists. He's telling Christians to embrace the accusations of needing a sky daddy.

>>22774862
Oh, I get it, he was an early opponent of 'its (insert year)'.

Real talk: How do I get into Lewis? Narnia?

>>22774874
narnia is kino
abolition of man is good also

>>22774878
cheers

>>22774874
Literally anything. Narnia is children's lit but very good, Screwtape and the space trilogy are good, his essays and nonfiction books are also very good. He was a great writer and also prolific, so it really depends on what interests you

>>22774862
He is completely right, even after the soification and the redditification of modern men he's still right. His whole point is that caring about being "adult" is actually very childish, and a real adult's attitude towards your passions and dreams should be one of not caring what other people think of them.

Frankly, you can view Lewis' quote as a critique of the "masculinity crisis" guys, too. I'm not saying that boys don't need up-to-date guides on how to be good men, but so much of what passes for "how to be a man" in the modern, like, right-wing blogosphere is just fucking childish. Whiskey? Cigars? Pipes? Facial hair? Overtly tailored clothes? It's all fucking goofy. I say this as someone who does like nice clothes and does like whiskey, but these guys are doing it performatively. They're concerned with looking "manly" in the same way Lewis is criticizing people being concerned with looking "very grown up."

The idea is not to make a performance of it. Not to make a costume of it, not to be a cartoon character. That's what makes someone REALLY an adult, when they're fully actualized at something rather than just playing pretend. And that's what makes someone really a man, too.

>>22774962
Well, one's opinion of 'what it is' to be an adult changes once one actually becomes one, or else it doesn't. I neither 'pity' the latter class, necessarily, nor do I 'hold them in contempt'. Still, though

>>22774837
This is true, but the latest iteration of that same is atheism.

>>22774857
Now I truly understand.
I am the night.

>>22774848
He’s saying it’s cool to act like a brainless pile of mush because people are unfairly judging you for enjoying Bluey at age 40.

>>22774627
>>22774622
>>22774621
cucks

He's saying it's okay for me to enjoy manga and anime, fucking sweet.

>>22774621
Mostly microplastics and trannification diets (low magnesium, low zinc, high sugar, etc).

>>22774613
Will you stop constantly reposting this dumb shit? it's been refuted so many times already. Why do you keep doing this? Do you have nothing better to do than to make braindead posts about a deceased man?

>>22774846
>2023
>lost all of their possessions
>immigration problems
>losing ground to China and arabs
certified KWAB moment

>>22774962
Agreed. It is equally as childish to claim that anyone who earnestly enjoys one or some of those things is inherently only doing so in an attempt to not seem childish. I think this is where the practical side of the commandment to not judge others comes into play.

>>22775553
Grow up

That quote would come from a place of master morality, but he was actually just coping with the fact that he wasn't taken seriously because his most famous works were books meant for children. He was trying not to alienate his potential grown-up readers.

reading childrens tales alone is cringe and retarded
reading childrens tales with you kids is peak masculinity

playing with toys alone is you guessed it, cringe and retarded
playing with toys with your kids is peak masculinity

>>22776599
Raising children is a woman's job

>>22775560
Most Middle Eastern countries have that too so how does that make any sense?

>>22774621
This is just what the soγ phenotype likes now. If Chesterton was born in our own age he'd moderate r/atheism

>>22774846
All of this comes from Europeans ignoring the Bible and focusing on blood itself. The West became increasingly cucked when it turned away from the Catholic tradition and started actually living by the Bible.

>>22776677
>started actually living by
marxism, ftfy