/lit/ - Literature

>>7112525
I'm beginning to feel like the majority of the people here are idiots and that it is just a small amount of people that make this board seem smart.

>>7112532
Honestly it used to be better

>>7112532
>this board seems smart

>>7112532
That's mainly because the majority of the user base on this board happens to be underaged.

>>7112532
It feels like that ratio has steadily gotten worse.
The brighter ones should leave though. I don't blame them.

death

>>7112532
I am certain that the majority here are idiots. Mostly because people here are very young, second because even smart people shitpost aftwrall we are anonymous, third because I come here once a week and this stupidity always surprises me, forth because whenever I post something people compliment a lot.

This board only seems smart in comparisson to other boards and only in theme (books = smart), because the level of discussion is mostly the same.

>>7112525
I came back to this board after a few years out of 4chan.
This board is cancer. It was never good, but it used to be tolerable.

Thinking about writing for submission, trying to get published so that I could have a reputation as a writer.

I never post here, since I don't ever write anything long and most people here seem to want to write a novel

>>7112525
I hate undergraduates

I don't even read, i don't know why I come here

>>7112639
same

>>7112532
This is completely true

I am procrastinating on a presentation that is due tomorrow. I'm actually really close to being done but I read what I already have and it sounds like total garbage. now every time I look at it I get overwhelmed with intense anxiety and find myself watching survival videos on Youtube.

Not to mention that after I finish writing out the presentation I have to write a thesis statement and create an outline for another class. Both are due tomorrow.

Any procrastination advice anyone can lend?

>>7112535
Everything always used to be better.

>>7112803
true

I am attempting to diagram Socrate's (plato's) argument as to why Virtue is the sole good, and the strongest question Ive come up with is not "What makes things good, is it truth?" Or "Is virtue truely necessary or is it contigent?" but instead "Is the girl, the girl who I cant read like any book, is she thinking of me?" I want to put that in my diagram, but I dont think even Socrate's found a truth or virtue to my dilemna.

>>7112841
If you ask for a a small child maybe, and just maybe, you will fing his answers

>>7112907
I am starving, dying of thirst for an elaboration, please.

i'm a better writer than anyone on this board

NIGGERS

>>7112639
Too smart to post anywhere else but still too dumb to post here

>>7112532
/lit/ is a weird mixture of undergrads who want to escape being the humble bottom of the totem pole and be allowed to jerk themselves off for being intellectuals for a change, and cloistered grad students or otherwise rare well-read people who are sick of having no one to share it with and basically only come here to spam recommendations for the three topics they know about

If you browse often enough, and you look real carefully, you can see the former group osmose the singular posts of the latter group on a more-or-less weekly basis, so that a recommendation by someone in the know on some topic will quickly become the stock response by EVERYONE on that topic, a majority of whom never read it, but now know it is the correct response and want to show off that they do

>>7112770
http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrastinate.html

>>7113387
>If you browse often enough, and you look real carefully, you can see the former group osmose the singular posts of the latter group on a more-or-less weekly basis, so that a recommendation by someone in the know on some topic will quickly become the stock response by EVERYONE on that topic, a majority of whom never read it, but now know it is the correct response and want to show off that they do

this is literally me, except with more obnoxious meme-posting, frog-posting, and shit-positing zealotry

/lit/ is the worst place to discuss literature tbh

>>7113412
get ass aids fag nerd

>>7113387
>If you browse often enough, and you look real carefully, you can see the former group osmose the singular posts of the latter group on a more-or-less weekly basis, so that a recommendation by someone in the know on some topic will quickly become the stock response by EVERYONE on that topic, a majority of whom never read it, but now know it is the correct response and want to show off that they do
I've observed the same thing, particularly because after I'd recommended a set of books a few times and explained them, they became stock answer when someone asked for help on the topic when previous to my spamming of them they'd never been mentioned on the board
Interesting "phenomenon" I guess