/lit/ - Literature

>>6410920
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnKuS-d4waU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyHymAMEvig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOvTtU90kbA

I wouldn't at all say that /lit/ hates existentialism, but I think some people see it as passé and done-to-death.

>>6410920
because you can kind of teach it to high school students. there's literally nothing wrong with it. it'd just seem unfashionable to be specializing in it or think it's exceptionally better than other movements due to its immense utility in the 20th century reaching its apex a long time ago

no reason it should be skipped

>>6410929

Because existentialism challenges religions like christianity and scientism.

>>6410929

why why why why why why why why

why don't you just think for like 10 seconds and figure it out, huh?

>>6410929
There's literally nothing wrong with the content of the first video. (The other three aren't really relevant) She gives a decent INTRODUCTION to existentialism as promised and it seems useful in introducing the concept to people who would know nothing at all about it.

The bikini is irrelevant to the content of the video

>>6410999
>but if girls like it, it must be shit!!!

>>6411039
Actually yeah, I didn't think of that. good point, dude

>>6410920
A lot of simple existentialism as well as misinterpretations of existentialist thought gets circulated in middle and high school, so it can become tiresome or seem childish to hear over and over. It's usually people's introduction or the first philosophy they learn, so it's associated with a early time in ones life.
Existentialism has value, especially in relation to psychology and the budding study of neurophilosophy. I think branches of existentialism like nihilism are pretty childish and don't have a lot of value however.
Also not all of /lit/ dislikes it, there are some pretty unlearned people posting here.

>>6410999
The medium is the massage

*message

teenagers use the term "existential crisis" as a sort of childish-depression+

Lit, ever so busy not reading anything, takes this as evidence that existentialism really just means childish-depression+

existence doesn't precede essence, not in anything more than a very limited sense. otherwise physics wouldn't work, which it obviously does

>>6410920
its basic and self-evident. if you had an existential crisis and stopped there, you've basically gone nowhere.

>>6410999
>The bikini is irrelevant to the content of the video


I'd say that the content is irrelevant to the bikini. She wants to be seen talking about existentialism, and since she's a girl this mean exhibiting her body. That's the point of the video.

>>6410929
>1 min in frist vid has misunderstood all of religious existentialism and misquoted sartre

>>6411928
you don't know anything about existentialism, physics, the philosophy or science or even the words essence and existence

>>6411941
Culture of entertainment.

it's babby's first philosophy, and its appropriation by pseudo-intellectual artists (this is an
existentialist' painting, or movie, etc..) causes some to sneer at it

also, the gloominess of some of its major exponents gives it sort of an adolescent connotation

>>6410920
>Why does /lit/ hate existentialism?
They're all nihilists and existentialism (which is the next logical step) is an effort too exhausting for them.

pic related

>>6411924
What do you exactly mean with that?

>>6412512
>pretending memory is real
>pretending I'd have any memory of passing out in your pool if it were
>pretending absurdism doesn't make as much sense
Nothing on me, bro, you're going to have to get the pool to testify against me.

>>6412552
>>pretending memory is real
If you post it in the Internet the memory becomes real. You officially have memory of it.

>>6410929
Why are girls obsessed with going, "YOU CAN'T TELL ME HOW TO RUN MY LIFE AND EVERYONE SHOULD BE LIKE ME IN THIS"

That's nice and all, but can you shut the fuck about it?

>>6410920
Because most of /lit/ are basicly still children. Being under 25 and truly understanding existentialism doesn't go along, it's a matter of perspective. Lit is still in it's ideology driven state, thus we have comunists, scientismists (?) and fighting christians here.

>>6412680
>and fighting christians here.
This made me chuckle a little. Might be 'cause I only, reluctantly dropped mine at the late age of 22.

>>6410920
Because the existentialism /lit/ does like is shit-prose fags like Camus. We need more Sartre discussion/appreciation/circle-jerking.

>>6412617
>official memory
>being so fascistic you probably take photographs
In the words of the Shamless character Frank Gallagher (UK)(RIP)
>Human error, see.
>Ghost in the machine.
>Literally.
>Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
>Computers, you see, Maureen.
>Only as good as the person putting stuff in.
>Garbage in, garbage out.
>Data in a computer literally means what's put in it.
>Data, right? Not information.

>>6410920
I think it's more of hating on the people who identify with the movement rather than the movement itself because by and large existentialism is baby's first philosophy.

>>6413216
so it is slightly less ignorant people hating their younger selves through others.

its a philosophy for teenagers basically and people who can't think for themselves.

because it literally doesn't make sense. there is objective meaning all around us, you have to have an iq of 70 not to see it