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7003039 No.7003039 [Reply] [Original]

If you are from Burgerland are you doomed to write middlebrow fiction for your entire life?

>> No.7003043

you don't have to write any fiction at all

>> No.7003050

>>7003039
Yes.

Americans after the time of Steinbeck have literally nothing interesting to write about.

Maybe if you're black and your mother beat you then you could have something worth reading, but since you're on 4chan you're 99% likely to be some shitty anti-social white kid who feels hurt because you were turned down at prom.

Just write your LotR semi-clone and pile it on with the rest.

>> No.7003055

>>7003039
America produces the greatest works of fiction of the modern age: you only have to look at the fact that they rule the world with their economic and cultural might to realize this. Middlebrow is now Europe, a socialist hellhole in perpetual decline.

>> No.7003066

middlebrow is the new highbrow

>dealwithit.jpg

>> No.7003067

isn't all "literary fiction" middlebrow in its attempt to be serious and aspiring to modest greatness?

>>7003050
ia tbh

>> No.7003079

>18, America
>invited to a workshop this summer for kids going into college
>apparently the 'best of the best' of young writers
>they're all bad
>get kicked out halfway through because my notes on other people's work was considered 'bullying'

Seriously I was the only person who knew what the fuck they were talking about, and I don't consider myself some kind of patrician.

Apparently telling people to use active voice, cut down on the purple, and not start with the weather is bullying.

On the plus side this is good news for any decent upcoming American authors. Shouldn't be any real competition if have skill.

>> No.7003080

>>7003055
America no longer leads the world in the economy.

They are a few trillion dollars in debt lmao

All hail China!

>> No.7003085

>>7003080
>Marxists actually believe this

>> No.7003088

>>7003039
Yeah tbh

>> No.7003095

>>7003085
Huh?

>> No.7003108

>>7003085
>I use "Marxist" as a catch-all insult for anyone I dislike. I don't actually know anything of value.

>> No.7003110

>>7003095
Just calling you out on your Marxist bullshit propaganda, no need to play the dumb deer in headlights. Back to your Chinese Communist paymasters.

>> No.7003122

>>7003110
Caught me tbh.

>> No.7003124

>>7003108
>butthurt Commie detected
Chhina is a MARXIST STATE, but stay ignorant.

>> No.7003148

>>7003124
>MARXIST STATE

No. I bet you think the Soviet Union was Marxist, too. Tell me, what exactly do you even know about Marxism?

>> No.7003158

>>7003148
>No.
Yes.

>, what exactly do you even know about Marxism?
Everything I need to know: endless starvation, genocide, collectivism, and mass murder. Read 1984 to see what Marxism really means. But you sjws will still defend Big Brother because he says he's on your side.

>> No.7003161

>>7003124
Yeah, that's why certain industries are privatized. You sure are retarded.

>> No.7003176

>>7003161
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_China
>Communist
As I once said, "That's what communism is. It's the opposite of democracy. Incase you didn't understand what communism means.

Citizens may be fooled into thinking they're voting on something but really its all towards complete government control"
so fuck off with your claims when Communist is right in their name and autocracy is the game they're playing

Look up Mao Ze Dong and his famines
This is Communism.

>> No.7003185

>>7003158
>endless starvation, genocide, collectivism, and mass murder.

All of which exist under capitalism as well. Your point? None of those things define or are unique to Marxism.

>> No.7003187

>>7003176
Look up Deng Xiaoping and his market oriented reforms.

This is Communism, right?

>> No.7003193

>>7003080
Getting slightly back on-topic, doesn't China have a substantial debt as well at the moment?

>> No.7003195

>>7003185
Marxism just exacerbates it and takes it to a new extreme of stupidity.

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>>7003185
Don't bother replying to him; he's an obnoxious idiot.

Here's an off-topic thread he posted, go there and report him if you want to help: >>7002459

>> No.7003224

>>7003079
What uni are you going into lad

Btw those contests rarely ever predict talent, and being a "talented young writer" or artist means literally nothing as children lack the aesthetic sensibility to be that great at their craft: hs fags should stick to learning how their medium works (ie how to analyze literature) before writing their own drivel

>> No.7003250

>>7003079
was it breadloaf? because I was there and thought everyone else was shit, so one of us has some explaining to do

>> No.7003345

Do Europeans not like hamburgers?