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Anonymous Wed Jul 11 21:52:15 2018 No.11447293 [Reply] [Original]

Is there anything more brainlet-tier than trying to apply fiction to real life?
>This is just like [1984 | The Handmaid’s Tale | Brave New World]!
>[Author] warned us about this in [book]!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 11 21:54:12 2018 No.11447297 >>11447293 Yes, (You)

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 11 21:55:58 2018 No.11447304 >>11447293 This >>11447297 The only thing more brainlet-tier is denying parallels between literature/art and reality.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 11 23:38:10 2018 No.11447557 >>11447293 There's nothing wrong with this as long as it is actual literature.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 11 23:39:59 2018 No.11447564 >>11447293 It's just banter, Anon. No need to get upset.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 11 23:40:58 2018 No.11447567 >>11447304 based

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 11 23:42:57 2018 No.11447574 >>11447293 Why wouldn't fiction apply to real life? Most fiction is inherently applicable to real life

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 11 23:44:59 2018 No.11447580 File: 138 KB, 428x594, brendan fraser sheriff of just.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11447293 >My sex life is just like Whatever by Houellebecq no it works

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 11 23:51:55 2018 No.11447598 >>11447293 Maybe those particular books because they're overused and easy to appropriate.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 11 23:54:08 2018 No.11447603 >>11447293 nice self portrait, OP

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 11 23:56:32 2018 No.11447609 >>11447293 My buddy on snapchat has blogged his new super infatuation with the handmaidens tale, and now he's gonna be in a video with Vox talking about political correctness Fun for him I guess

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 11 23:58:28 2018 No.11447619 >>11447557 This. Referencing literature makes you look cultured and educated. When referencing vidya, tv and films, especially when done excessively, you come across as a pop culture consuming bugman.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 00:00:16 2018 No.11447621 fiction is more real than non fiction

Anonymous Thu Jul 12 00:10:57 2018 No.11447639

>>11447598
This. If you're engaging honestly with fiction, you'll probably find plenty of real life parallels and applications. The thing is, saying something is like 1984 or something has become shorthand for "thing I don't like" and unless you go into specifics, it's mostly a worthless statement.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 00:12:49 2018 No.11447650 >>11447639 Also the problem is that 1984 isn't a well-written book.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 00:14:28 2018 No.11447658 >>11447650 I don't care for it that much either, but your edginess is pretty irrelevant.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 00:29:26 2018 No.11447716 >>11447658 i don't think you know what that word means amigo

Anonymous Thu Jul 12 00:37:50 2018 No.11447748

>>11447293
It's not that using fiction to inform the real world is bad; there's a lot of emotional reality in fiction. The issue is people who define how they look at everything political by their reading of some popular speculative fiction. This is not helped by how shallow the readings always seem to be.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 03:30:55 2018 No.11448222 AND THAT'S THE BLOODY THING ABOUT RADICAL LEFTISTS. SOLZHENITSYN WARNED US ABOUT THIS IN A BOOK CALLED THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO. YOU DO NOT WANT TO GO THERE, MAN.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 03:32:40 2018 No.11448227 >>11448222 TELL ME HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT BANEPOSTING DR. PETERSON!

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 03:42:08 2018 No.11448255 >>11448222 Why should we care about a fake book written by a hack?

Anonymous Thu Jul 12 06:02:14 2018 No.11448679

>>11447293
> lacking so much empathy that you struggle to find connections and correlations between the subtexts and philosophies of literature and reality
> not wishing to be more like Jean Valjean or admiring the Don Quixotic figure who never gives up
> not believing we're all a little like Ignatius or Meursault
> implying that 1984 and Brave New World - although over-referenced in a simplistic manner - don't offer elements of relevancy when you apply them to aspects of surveillance, dictatorships, instant gratification of pop culture and social media, etc

Sorry, OP, but it's YOU who is the brainlet.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 06:03:24 2018 No.11448682 >>11447609 how much do you get paid for an appearance through Vox? I wouldn't think it'd be much more than a hundred bucks

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 06:10:07 2018 No.11448699 >>11447293 no, but certain applications are (such as invoking 1984 to anything surveillance related, a reddit favorite)

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 07:14:35 2018 No.11448825 File: 157 KB, 1602x1554, 1521423850376.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11447293 lmao

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 07:23:07 2018 No.11448847 File: 100 KB, 413x243, soy_maga.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 07:37:07 2018 No.11448879 >>11448682 I didn't even think about payment, but that sounds like a plausibility if they do get paid, I generally just get annoyed at the thought though because he's buying into propaganda and now he's gonna help propagate himself

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 08:17:29 2018 No.11448963 I'm waiting for Eumeswil, personally

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 08:22:14 2018 No.11448970 >>11447293 >reality doesn't include fiction and neither affects the 'other'

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 10:24:16 2018 No.11449381 >>11447293 yes there is: thinking that, just because fiction doesnt apply literally to real life, it is therefore useless or childish. EVERYTHING IS FICTION, non fiction is just one of the many types of it.

Anonymous Thu Jul 12 13:08:51 2018 No.11450126

>>11447293
In principle there is nothing wrong with using fiction to talk about the real world, but of the time iwhen people talk about muh 1984 they do it to signal that they are well read not because they have something to say.

Especially common if people talk about X thing government did is EXACTLY what Orwell warned us about.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 13:12:20 2018 No.11450137 >>11447293 Is there anything that makes you want to give up on life more than flicking through normalshit twitter? posts 2 second captioned loop of black person saying something in a movie.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 13:13:19 2018 No.11450141 Yeah man, Trump is totally like Voldemort.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 16:40:13 2018 No.11451067 >>11447619 >doing things for the sake of giving the impression of culture and education. Everything should be done out of love.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 16:43:50 2018 No.11451084 File: 180 KB, 994x745, Dayg3pdbNYqeAQHAeexFs02xcLgw6IHSb4LmMJVX8NQ.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11448847 >S oyboy was such a succesful meme that the only response to it has been "no u" and "mods plz filter" HAHAHAHAHA

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 16:45:50 2018 No.11451092 >>11451084 And lazors

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 16:53:57 2018 No.11451132 >>11447621 alri peterson

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 16:54:28 2018 No.11451134 >>11448679 the significance of 1984 was in how language was used to limit thought, thinking the surveillance culture was the most significant aspect of the book means you are a double plus smoothbrain

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 17:00:13 2018 No.11451158 >tfw you come into a thread to shit on OP's retardation but 10 people have already done it for you

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 22:17:44 2018 No.11452607 >>11447293 >Is there anything more brainlet-tier than trying to apply fiction to real life? Trying to apply real life in fiction

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 22:22:06 2018 No.11452623 >>11451084 This. It's amazing how much collective butthurt that simple word has caused.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 22:23:29 2018 No.11452630 >>11447580 GO AND TELL THOSE MIDNIGHT RIDERS

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 22:24:12 2018 No.11452636 File: 42 KB, 854x480, state of autism.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11447580 This image

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 23:56:17 2018 No.11452996 >>11451067 I like you, anon

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