/lit/ - Literature

>>23230754
Fiction yes

>>23230764
>open a postmodern philosophy book
>they're just interpreting Kafka

>>23230754
>it's all really just consuming content
Nice excuse to keep being an ignorant negro

>>23230754
It depends on what are you reading. Young adult slop? It's on the same level as the average marvel flick or a bing bing wahoo game.
Literature has a much longer history and longer time being refined by writers than television and video games (who have been going backwards during the last ten years), but its hobbyists has retards like >>23230764.

Life is consumption

>>23230754
/lit/ is capable of being more sophisticated than /tv/ and /v/. It is also capable of being offensively suburban.
If 95% of your personal library is dominated by contemporary bestseller fiction, self-help books, and >INSERT CURRENT POLITICAL FAD HERE< exposés, can you honestly consider yourself sophisticated and well-read?
How could someone who all but ignores history, philosophy, religion, poetry, and even the most basic sciences like amateur astronomy be sophisticated?

>>23230862
Not /film/ though

No matter where it's used, I hate the word content.
At one point entertainment got replaced by content.

>>23230862
>and even the most basic sciences like amateur astronomy
Who gives a shit about astronomy, though? Hurr durr Musk is going to lead us to Mars! #ilovescience

>>23230871
Cinema is garbage. Even videogames have more artistic merit than whatever black and white flick you jerk off to.

>>23230754
>just consuming content
Life mostly revolves around consuming and creating various forms of content. A part of what you consume becomes a part of you, whether you are conscious of it or not, and it will influence what you create and what decisions you will take, just like any other experience.

>reading is more sophisticated or valuable or enriching than movies, television, and video games
Not necessarily, and pretty much any non-retard would agree. There are certain movies that value than most books. The thing is that in my opinion, classic books have a much higher "density" of valuable/enriching content compared to classic film, tv and video games. They're the primary form of conveying information everywhere for a reason. They're pretty much the best and the cheapest medium for sharing stories or explaining stuff. Anyone can pick up a pen and write their thoughts on paper.

A lot of people associate reading as more sophisticated because undeniably you have to put in more effort into reading a book than watching a TV show. Also a lot of people treat books as just entertainment, and that's a wrong attitude. If you want a Michael Bay or capeshit experience from a book, then you're in a wrong place and should play a game or watch an action movie instead. Genre fiction is also for certain kinds of people who are usually not looking for explosions but detailed worlds and characters for example.

also
>strawmen crowd

>>23230978
pleb filtered

>>23230754
For you? Yes.

>>23230961
Calling what is now considered content "entertainment" is both too true for what much of it is, and simultaneously way off the mark. Entertainment that isn't entertaining, disguised as facts.

>>23230963
>people I don't like are fans of a guy who said a thing therefore I'm above knowing the constellations, seeing a meteor shower, or being able to find the North Star
This thread is about sophistication. Saying it's pointless to learn how the Arab nomads traveled the desert during the islamic conquests is the opposite of sophisticated.

>>23230978
Based retard

>>23230754
Every piece of media is a watered down version of the source material, which is usually the author's neurons

>>23230825
This. Video games are basically still a fetus. There are a lot of rich movies to discover, but it still pales compared to literature.

>>23230754
Some people on /lit/ think that reading philosophy, etc. makes you smarter lol

>>23230754
>content
Is it no longer possible to discuss art without reducing it to an artifact of capitalist consumption?

Does OP believe everyone who ever wrote a book only did it for the money? Does OP think art is transactional? Does OP believe or think at all?

>>23230764
everything is fiction anon.

philosophy = fantasy
history = straight up fiction
scientific literature = rigor fiction

>>23230825
correct

>>23230754
depends on (You)r level of engagement

>>23230754
No. If you want to see how dumb movies can make you >>>/tv/ and if you want to see how distracted videogames can make you >>>/v/

>>23230978
lmao

>>23230754
Another illiterate got filtered, praise be, lmao

>>23231419
But /lit/ is full of morons too

>>23231419
/tv/ don't watch movies
/v/ don't play games
/lit/ don't read

>>23231491
/thread

Broadly speaking, yes. It’s just this board is far more elitist than /mu/ or /tv/ so instead of threads on James Patterson it’s on James Joyce. It isn’t that reading per se is any more sophisticated or valuable but that this board emphasizes very sophisticated or valuable literature

>>23230846
Excretion is just as important. The stories we take in become the civilization we poop out. Life is really shuffling data.

>>23232184
https://youtu.be/UD_XVyMZlF8?si=t_13kRB2lvKxXC-p

>>23232184
https://youtu.be/XOmo-nt5cSg?si=xmDZjoFG7G_Bpyfj

>>23232199
>>23232211
Mailer didn’t deserve such a touching tribute

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