/lit/ - Literature

Because people obsess over vague and pseudo intellectual life morals that are nothing but cloying and attempting to elevate themselves as revolutionary when in reality they're self servicing and stupid.

People are more vocal, and they buy more when they're in a good mood, which is exactly the kind of mood you have to be in to get to enjoy such a falsely motivational novel about how great it is to be in a good mood and how you should not be depressed. That's why assholes like Paulo Coelho get to stay in the market pandering to people with simple preocupations that want to feel as though everything that goes bad in their life is a depression they bravely sorted through.

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what's the difference between "in your face" lessons that are clearly spelled out, and lessons you deduce from reflection on literature? Do they not have the same aim?

I read Hesse's Siddhartha and Gibran's The Prophet and really liked them. I liked the Alchemist too, but slightly less -- honestly I felt they were offering very similar lessons. And I know the stuff about "it's the journey, not the destination."