/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14390160]

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[Anonymous No.14390170]

>>14390160
2016 election cycle quadrupled the site traffic

[Anonymous No.14390177]

>>14390160
The demographic changed from guys trying to learn books to get a gf to guys trying to learn hermetic mysticism so they don't care about getting a gf

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.14390180]

Already answered

[Anonymous No.14390183]

>>14390177
That's probably better than the reality so let's roll with it.

[Anonymous No.14390186]

>>14390180
Shit answer. Just trying to put blame on le right wingers.

[Anonymous No.14390189]

>>14390180
You are so cute to include the 'this' post with that honestly. So, so cute. :3

[Anonymous No.14390193]

Back in 2011 the board was a bunch of MFAs or faux-MFAs trying to flex literature ego, but at least there were earnest discussions and most threads were about authors or books. Now it's at the very least 50% politics and horny posting, and otherwise 40% philosophy. It's almost impossible to have a discussion about literature. I miss the MFA pseuds.

[Anonymous No.14390195]

>>14390160
It was always this bad, it just used to be a bunch of people shilling the meme trilogy
Which maybe 1% of the board had actually read

[Anonymous No.14390197]

>>14390180
This site means a lot you. You should let the guy who showed you it cum in your. ass, just sayin

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.14390203]

>>14390186
>too many rightwing reactionaries pushing their meme mysticism
>It’s not the rightwing! I refuse the answer
I said it was anonymous trolls pushing their bullshit, and yeah, they’re rightwing non-readers

[Anonymous No.14390213]

>>14390203
>rightwing
>reactionaries
>meme mysticism

[Anonymous No.14390216]

>>14390213
Why do you respond to the narcissist?

[Anonymous No.14390218]

>>14390193
Male Fashion Advices?

[Anonymous No.14390220]

>>14390177
There is nothing wrong with this.

[Anonymous No.14390223]

4chan got flooded by reddit/T_d refugees in 2016. Although initially drawn to /pol/ they spread to other boards. They tended not read much and eschew the type of intellectualism that is required for the serious consideration of literature.
Mods dropped the ball by not deleting threads that were off-topic so the quality of the board died and those interested in literature moved on.

[Anonymous No.14390228]

I made that post and I stated browsing this year FYI

[Anonymous No.14390229]

>>14390203
Hey faggot, i actually responded to your diarrhea even though you attempted to brush me off several times. Read it and try to make an argument, i dare you >>14390208

[Anonymous No.14390231]

>>14390223
Where did they move to?

[Anonymous No.14390235]

>>14390160
This is what happens when you continually ban and censor fringe political groups from their niche sites like 8ch, booting us off of Reddit, continually censoring us from Twitter and Facebook. It’s not like we’re all just going to go “welp, they banned us from another internet site. guess we’ll just become a bunch of faggots now and above dicks up our asses.” Realistically, the internet is fucked, now that the deep right has nowhere left to go but the mainstream sites. Congratulations, you faggots played yourselves.

[Anonymous No.14390244]

>>14390235
Is this satire?

[Anonymous No.14390245]

>>14390160
>Things change me not like

[Anonymous No.14390248]

>>14390218
Masters of Fine Arts

[Anonymous No.14390253]

>>14390177
Sounds reasonable.

[Anonymous No.14390262]

>>14390235
I just find you people annoying honestly. I don’t care about politics at all and I mostly just see it as an attempt to control people from left or right. I am, however, religious, and I hate how spiritually devoid politics drones have co opted religion in an extremely superficial yet insistent manner which has turned everyone further against it. I rank you people in the same way I would any utilitarian faggot, atheist or “religious”.

[Anonymous No.14390263]

>>14390160
Half of the posters* don't even read.

*Conservative estimate

[Anonymous No.14390266]

>>14390160
It's bad moderation. It's amazing how one person could shill his cringy favorite author so hard that it single-handedly ruins the quality of the board. More amazing is that the mods don't seem to care but somehow they manage to remove any quality literature thread that pops up.

[Anonymous No.14390269]

>>14390177
>hermetic mysticism

not even a real thing

[Anonymous No.14390271]

>>14390244
You’re going to see a reformed Christianity following a closer doctrine to Calvinism within the next thirty years. There is no dominant Western religion in sight! Claim your opening now!

[Anonymous No.14390277]

>>14390271
Aight I thought you were serious for a sec there haha

[Anonymous No.14390279]

>>14390262
And I find your anhedonia towards politics disgraceful and unworthy of respect. Your opinion is trash and I toss it to the garbage where it belongs. This board is being coopted, our ideas are stronger and burn more brightly than the low-energy drivel you liberal and centrist fags spew.

[Anonymous No.14390292]

>>14390279
Wow. It’s amazing to me how you can’t even conceive of a world outside of your cramped little political reality, where everyone is constantly sticking their idealogical fingers into other people’s lives. You even have to label me as some meaningless political position in order to understand me and reply to me. It’s insane

[Anonymous No.14390302]

>>14390160
>extremists
what's the problem?

[Anonymous No.14390306]

>>14390160
i'll tell you what happened. no 21st century authors are worth a damn. we're 1/5th of the way through the century and they're all fucking shit. it's all incel cope or trangender agenda or söyboy cope from tao lin or drug addict cope from megan boyle. NONE of it is worth comment. people are recognizing the value of works before the world became a joke. that is literally all it is. you can call it reactionary or whatever but it is of actual intellectual value whereas 21st century fiction is most definitely not.

[Anonymous No.14390312]

>>14390269
Yeah we only study Hermetic positivism. No mystic hodgepodge for us honest to god followers of Hermetic science! Fucking psueds man holy fuck

[Anonymous No.14390317]

>>14390279
You just proved the guy 100% right you retarded faggot. Every time anybody tries to tell you niggers to stop destroying every board you throw these tantrums and accuse everyone of being a liberal communist.

[Anonymous No.14390318]

>>14390306
Carfeul with that edge.
People have been reading classics since forever, that's why they are classics in the first place.

[Anonymous No.14390319]

>>14390292
It’s ironic you believe it’s asinine for me to push ideology wherever I go. It’s clearly having an effect; both driving the low-energy bug men off this board and concentrating more philosophy of this kind to the board. You’re a sad little cunt who’s all up in a hissyfit that his safe space isn’t so safe after all. Eat my right wing dick, faggot

[Anonymous No.14390325]

>>14390318
thanks for agreeing with me while admitting you can't agree with me

point me to ANY work of the 21st that can compare with something that didn't come before

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.14390330]

>>14390229
>me
You aren’t anybody. Get used to being brushed off.

>>14390197
Semen always on your mind.

[Anonymous No.14390331]

>>14390160
/lit/ became a Guenonian Traditionalist board, everyone else is just along for the ride. That's what happened

[Anonymous No.14390332]

>>14390319
Nazi npc needs a reset

[Anonymous No.14390337]

>>14390325
He was agreeing that 21st century lit sucks but saying that's not the reason that this board is in decline because /lit/ has always held that opinion anyway

[Anonymous No.14390336]

>>14390317
>stop posting
>your ruining MY board
You realize we don’t give a single shit about you detracting losers? The vocal minority that are you clearly are on the losing end of this all, and this requires you to lash back out in hopes of gaining some kind of sympathetic support for “cleansing” “your” board of undesirable topics. Like I already stated in my original post, we’ve been driven from our enclaves that were 8ch and such. Now you get what you deserve.

[Anonymous No.14390341]

>>14390332
You realize I’m Nazbol, right?

[Anonymous No.14390342]

>>14390319
You’ve completely misread me and I’m not surprised at all. I don’t care if it’s left or right wing, people like you are the real bugmen. Everything is through the lens of whatever ism and it transforms whatever is profound into banal semantic me vs you horseshit. You can get mad and call me names all you want, it’s just a completely superficial way of seeing the world and engaging with its ideas. Obviously you can’t see this since you seem to think I’m bashing the right wing for some reason, when really I’m just bashing childish thinkers like you.

[Anonymous No.14390355]

>>14390342
No, you’re upset that you can’t escape into your little fantasy world, and that the real world is actually crashing full force into your attempt to shy away from it all. You’re a little pussy faggot who is unable to accept his reality is never permanent and only a fleeting feeling.

[Anonymous No.14390359]

>>14390341
You embrace idpol and reacrionsry ideology. Fuck off NPC.

[Anonymous No.14390360]

>>14390235
>>14390244
nope, these teens are really that retarded. this is the people you argue with on here

[Anonymous No.14390364]

>>14390355
>the “real world”
Yeah whatever, have the last reply. If your kind (again, whatever their ideas) represent the real world, you are correct in that I’d rather not take part

[Anonymous No.14390370]

>>14390359
And what do you embrace? Nothing? Well, nothing seems to be an ideology, for we are not just defined by what we have, but by also by what we lack. It is humorous that your pea brain can only muster these simple retorts devoid of any form of substance resembling a brain above average IQ.

[Anonymous No.14390371]

>>14390336
Nobody would care if you niggers would actually discuss literature instead of endless twitter screenshot threads and retarded grandstanding like this. The only undesirable topics this board should be cleansed of are everything that isn't literature, including all political discussion. There's a thread in the catalog right now where one of you faggots is trying to discuss Nick fucking Fuentes feuding with Ben fucking Shapiro.

[Anonymous No.14390377]

>>14390364
Good. You can resign yourself to the back of the bus while the adults take the reigns and steer the ship. This is exactly why you will always be a pathetic LOSER. You are WEAK.

[Anonymous No.14390383]

>>14390160
>muh nostalgia bias
boring
every board has faggots making this type of thread nonstop no matter what year it is

[Anonymous No.14390389]

>>14390160
Am I the only one who really likes that it's more about philosophy texts than opinions about...novels?
(Not to say that novels can't have "philosophical" content. Anno 2019 I'm just not interested in entertainment material)

[Anonymous No.14390391]

>>14390371
Nobody cares what you think of want, faggot. We do as we please and bow to no one.

[Anonymous No.14390393]

>>14390371
This is what I hate. Don’t mind religious discussion, don’t mind philosophy even when it’s the unabomber or whatever dumb shit, I don’t even mind meme books like the fault in our stars being discussed. But topical politics shit, especially of the twitter sort, I can’t stand. It is just so fucking dull and intellectually empty. We need a politics board that isn’t just /pol/ so all these types have an excuse to be banned here.

[Anonymous No.14390399]

>>14390325
2666
Austerlitz
La fiesta del Chivo
I'm personally not a fan but whatever Knausgaard is doing with Min Kampf is at least unique
Parra's poetry
Some of McCarthy's work

We lack distance to properly judge 21st century lit. We tend to think that XXth century was great because we read the High modernists, Borges, Hamsun, Kafka, Mann... And ignore all the schlock that has been rightfully forgotten by time.

Time and critics will put our contemporaries into place. Nobody will remember the people you mentioned, stop living in twitter like it's the real world.

[Anonymous No.14390448]

>>14390389
Philosophy MA here. I would LOVE if any of those threads had any informed discussion about philosophy or philosophical questiona, but both the OPs and the posters have no clue what they are talking about, because they don't read philosophy. I mean we have retards like >>14386514 thinking they can read fucking Derrida "with no prerequisites". 99% of the so called philosophy threads are either bait, posturing, or flavour of the month mystic/extremist "discussion".

[Anonymous No.14390462]

>>14390448
>Philosophy MA here.
How does it feel knowing you wasted your time getting a degree?

[Anonymous No.14390466]

>>14390462
ahem TWO degrees brainlet

[Anonymous No.14390467]

>>14390448
So you're saying starting with the Greeks isn't a meme?

[Anonymous No.14390469]

>>14390160
to be honest Dosto is barely discussed anywhere outside of here

[Anonymous No.14390473]

>>14390448
You may well be right, but for people like me, it's an entry to philosophy. I do read some philosophy now that I wouldn't have otherwise. I didn't start with the greeks or anything, but I hope I'll still get more out of it than nothing, in this way.

[Anonymous No.14390479]

>>14390448
Hint: anyone who posts anime pictures is a retarded pseud

[Anonymous No.14390485]

>>14390448
you are right in that most people are talking pure nonsense when it comes to philosophy, but it's also a notoriously difficult thing to wrap your head around, so I don't have resentment towards people for trying to "talk it out" as a method of trying to grasp the concepts
they are fishing to get BTFO by somebody that knows something about the subject as a way of learning

[Anonymous No.14390501]

People getting into pointless ideological arguments, instead of recommending and sharing with each other great books on different subjects, sure helped turning this place into another cesspool.

[Anonymous No.14390511]

>>14390177
This

[Anonymous No.14390534]

>>14390462
I don't regret it desu, but I may choose something different if given the chance to do it all over again. Probably something equally useless like Art History or Germanistik, idk. All in all I think it was a very interesting subject and I don't feel like I wasted those years at all.

>>14390473
You don't need to "start with the greeks" to dip your toes into philosophy and frankly those fuckhuge lists and charts floating around are laughable. But if you actually want to learn abouth philosophy without spending hours and hours digging your nose into primary sources the least you can do is use decent secondary ones. There's good resources online, like IEP, Herder and Stanford. You could also pick up a textbook or a decent History of Philosophy book. But you won't get much from the literature section of a Cantonese carrot peeling board. The rules should be enforced and "philosophy" discussion banned unless referring to a specific book.

[Anonymous No.14390782]

>>14390485
you can also be BTFO by someone who is equally deluded and just start spewing different misinformation.

[Anonymous No.14390819]

>>14390279
Cringe. moot shouldve purged you fuckers when he had the chance. You're like cockroaches. At least chanology had merit and an idea, your ilk are but disorganized mass feeding on the decaying system

[Anonymous No.14390852]

>>14390306
A, frankly, breathtaking absence of sincerity, one is inlcined to wow.

[Anonymous No.14390929]

>>14390306
A, frankly, breathtaking absence of sincerity, one is even inclined to wow.

[Anonymous No.14390938]

>years ago
>thread about Soviet literature
>somehow, the discussion ended about Trotsky, North Korea, Marinette, Rudyard Kipling, Borges and Cabrera Infante (I discovered him here and he's great, check his books)
>still good
>great suggestions and all that stuff

>now
>/pol/ shit
>twitter screen-crap
>/pol/ shit
>twitter screen-crap
>/pol/ shit
>the_donald general
>Guénon
>/pol/ shit
>Guénon

[Anonymous No.14391068]

>>14390819
I’m came here in the last year only out of last resort for a place to discuss my ideas that is not drowned out in the mess that is /pol/. Like I said, I’m only here because we’ve been forced to come here. It’s not my choice, and Id rather still be on 8ch and those old comfy subreddits we used to be able to have. The internet begins to mimic reality in that the new invaders slowly overwhelm the native population. Your time is limited, and soon, you’ll be forced off this board for good.

[Anonymous No.14391082]

>>14390160
The rise of the Incel Right

[Anonymous No.14391089]

>>14390938
this has nothing to do with /pol/ and everything to do with a few autistic people ruining the entire board with spam which never gets deleted for some reason
there's nothing in right-wing ideology that says you have to be an annoying little shit, and i'd wager most of the people here who also go to /pol/ are as sick of it as you are

[Anonymous No.14391111]

>>14390306
this rotten attitude is the sort of shit that is ruining the board

[Anonymous No.14391128]

>>14391089
why are they spamming guenon so much?

[Anonymous No.14391135]

>>14391128
there are a handful of guénon posters on this board and they mostly keep to themselves, but for some reason buddhists keep raiding their threads, now they are coordinating from facebook and maybe discord
>>/lit/thread/S14382754#p14385279

Their latest tactic seems to be to pretend to spam Guénon to make him look bad

[Anonymous No.14391159]

>>14390231
Nowhere. They either talk about literature privately or not at all.

[Anonymous No.14391161]

i think most people here won't admit it, but reading fiction is generally a waste of time

[Anonymous No.14391172]

>>14391135
>Their latest tactic seems to be to pretend to spam Guénon to make him look bad
kinda funny because im rereading one of his books right now, and its p good.

[Anonymous No.14391176]

>>14391161
What the fuck isn't

[Anonymous No.14391187]

>>14391161
Reading just "fiction" I admit is a waste of time, but reading some true art that makes you feel sublime (whatever that is) isn't by any means a waste.
I suspect most of you who view it as a waste have never felt this way, have you?

[Anonymous No.14391204]

>>14390160
lit in 2014 was just anons trying to convince each other that they read the meme trilogy

[Anonymous No.14391219]

>>14390306
Holy shit, imagine being this retarded.

It’s not anyone’s fault but yours that the only exposure to 21st century literature is shitty memes like Tao Lin and Megan Boyle

[Anonymous No.14391229]

>>14390391
This is literally “we are Anonymous”-tier cringe.

[Anonymous No.14391254]

>>14391176

smoking crack

>>14391187

no, i've certainly felt that way. onwards to my actual point...

what i'm really trying to get at is there are only a few fiction books actually worth reading. if the board was dominated by people that discussed fictional literature, it would be a significantly worse place. it would be /a/. you'd have a gang of retards unironically discussing 50 Shades of Grey and YA novels, thinking its high art. sure, the philosophyfags have their own problems, like the accelerationist idiots and guenonfag antics, but in general the discussion of philosophy is much better than the alternative

[Anonymous No.14391256]

>>14391161
Everyone spends at least some part of their day doing unproductive things, it is actually good for your mental wellbeing to balance out your brainwave states. Spending too much time in a high frequency analytical state literally leads to mental illness.
The key is to train your mind to be able to read philosophy in a lower brainwave state (very hard to do for mere mortals)
Unless you are a literal scientific marvel fiction is a good way to relax, the key is mindful intent

[Anonymous No.14391262]

>>14390336
8ch is back, eight kun dot top, go back there

[Anonymous No.14391331]

>>14391262
>8ch is back
>Just as a completely different site with no users

[Anonymous No.14391340]

>>14390391
You guys think you sound cool but in reality this is just a repeat of the "we r leejun" phenomena.

[Anonymous No.14391358]

>>14391254
who are you to decide what’s ”worth reading” or not
god you utalitarianfags are just the worst

[Anonymous No.14391368]

>>14391358

> utalitarian

not worried about your spelling, but you might want to refresh your conception of what that word means

[Anonymous No.14391372]

>>14391262
there's also a channel up, which Im not going to link because it's shady as fuck

[Anonymous No.14391375]

>>14391331
it's ran by the same faggots
same site, different domain name. now go back, and bring your friends

[Anonymous No.14391377]

>>14390195
I've read the meme trilogy. Those books are great.

[Anonymous No.14391395]

>>14391254
>. it would be /a/. you'd have a gang of retards unironically discussing 50 Shades of Grey and YA novels, thinking its high art.
Six years ago the board was majority fiction and didn't have these issues.

[Anonymous No.14391399]

pol ruined 4channel

[Anonymous No.14391404]

>>14391161
>urga durga everything I do must be productive! i'm not allowed to do anything pleasurable or enjoy art!
Is this your brain on American cultural values?
>nonfiction
Nonfiction is even more useless than fiction. What kind of nonfiction do you read? If it isn't directly related to your career or personal life then it's useless. Knowing trivial facts or useless philosophy/politics is the opposite of productive.

[Anonymous No.14391408]

>>14390195
>Which maybe 1% of the board had actually read
That's what's wrong with the board. You aren't supposed to be posting until you've completed the MT.

[Anonymous No.14391461]

>>14391262
Nah, I’m here to stay and push my agenda on the normies. No escape and the tranny jannies can’t ban me.

[Anonymous No.14391544]

>>14390467
Not that guy but philosophy is occasionally referred to as 'the great conversation', in that every succeeding work builds on the last and that like a conversation you can't just turn up mid way through and expect to understand what the fuck anybody's talking about. While you don't need to read literally everything ever written, you at least need to cover the major movers in chronological order.

[Anonymous No.14391659]

>>14390160
This board has become so terrible I’m actually increasingly humiliated when I browse it. I start to think, “Imagine people knew I browsed here? What would my mother think? What would my professors think?”

It is so fucking bad that I can’t even be mildly addicted to it like I used to be. It takes just a few minutes of browsing, seeing all the Guenon threads and Neo-nazis and OPs talking about random shit that has nothing to do with literature and saying “books for this feel” for me to feel so disgusted and hopeless that I leave, shuddering. I don’t even adhere to any established religion but I’ll pray for a second for all the pathetic losers on this board. There, I just did it. I hope you felt it. Good luck and goodbye.

[Anonymous No.14391670]

>>14390302
Bovine pussies too afraid to have non-cookie cutter opinions, commiebro.

[Anonymous No.14391708]

>>14391659
I know this feel :/

[Anonymous No.14391756]

>>14391404
>>urga durga everything I do must be productive! i'm not allowed to do anything pleasurable or enjoy art!
>Is this your brain on American cultural values?
>>14391659
i think that "start with the greeks" (and charts in general), while originally well-intentioned, has had a detrimental effect on the board, with insecure/fresh anons treating literature as a steam achievement run (instead of, you know, something "merely" fun/interesting). just look at the number of daily threads about people needing the same old books recommended to them, utterly incapable of searching out even the most elementary literature. couple this with the pathological refusal of anything considered "reddit" and the increase in culture war posting and you have /lit/ in 2019

[Anonymous No.14391861]

>>14391756
I don't blame the "start with the greeks" stuff on this phenomenon, though. People who legitimately take that advice read amazing shit that should start them with an immediate respect for literature that they probably never had before.

[Anonymous No.14391865]

>>14391461
>normies
giving a shit about politics is one of the most normalfag things you can do

[Anonymous No.14392416]

>>14390180
hey my psychologist told me that getting a gf may be a good idea, do you wanna be my gf?

[Anonymous No.14392441]

>>14390203
You barely read yourself, and your posts are mostly confined to /pol/-bait threads and low-effort meta threads like this one. You are merely the other side of the coin. Have literally never seen you discuss a book (or anything else) in any degree of depth.

[Anonymous No.14392448]

>>14390279
>anhedonia towards politics
>anon attempts to use a new word

[Anonymous No.14392456]

>>14392448
That anon is without a doubt underage.

[Anonymous No.14392459]

/lit/ moves much, much faster than it did back then. it's an influx of teens. Only the most surface level canon authors are discussed, and only these. The Iliad is worshipped as some holy text, when all it takes to understand it is maybe 2 weeks of reading and studying. Whenever people move past the surface pseud phase they leave because there isn't anything here for them, yet the teens keep coming.

Why am I here? Because I'm stuck and can't grow up, this place is pathetic and so am I for being here. If you are under 21 and are reading this, please go fuck yourself.

[Anonymous No.14392616]

>>14390180
>tripfag
Your opinion is already fucking irrelevant. You are part of the reason why this site is shit

[Anonymous No.14392666]

>>14392616
butterfly is unironically less toxic than guenonfag

[Anonymous No.14392714]

anyone who's been browsing here for more than four or five years AND complains about the quality of this place is a socially maladjusted retard who deserves every inch of this board's shit. if you hate it so much grow up and find real fucking people to talk to literature about, and if that's too much then you're at home here, should be contained here.

[Anonymous No.14392779]

>>14392441
100% this. That tranny asshole is one of the worst posters here and therefore one of the negative factors bringing the board down.

[Anonymous No.14392789]

>>14392666
Like arguing which pile of shit stinks more

[Anonymous No.14392804]

>>14392789
It's like you've never smelled feces from a necrotic colon before. (There's a big difference between ordinary stool and stool from a necrotic colon, if you couldn't pick this up)

[Anonymous No.14392808]

>>14392789
yes, guenonfag stinks infinitely more than her/him

[Anonymous No.14392840]

>>14390231
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?

[Anonymous No.14392872]

>strange mystics

because in the the vacuous spiritual hellscape that is the 21st people starving for enlightenment will stop at the first well they see to drink

[Anonymous No.14392902]

>>14390180
people like you ARE the problem. get back to your discord, tranny

[Anonymous No.14392915]

>>14392416
he an be your bf

[Anonymous No.14392920]

>>14390332
>refurbished natsoc meme
pathetic as always, the left cant meme

[Anonymous No.14392940]

/lit/ would no longer be /lit/ without Butterfly. Accept it.

[Anonymous No.14392953]

>>14392940
Butterfly became a namefig because back in the early '10s because then that was THE way to get attention on /lit/. All the other trips fucked off and eventually so did she. Now she's back and newfags think she's some kind of institution: she isn't. Or if she is, she is one we would be better off without.

[Anonymous No.14392993]

>>14392940
As fucking horrible as the buttplug fly is, the soiboi orbiters who whiteknight for it are infinitely worse. But you’re right — without the buttplug fly and shit nuggets like you /lit/ would no longer be /lit/. It would be something significantly better.

[Anonymous No.14392998]

/lit/ was shit almost from the beggining
does anyone remember the hellenismos fags?

[Anonymous No.14393273]

>>14392459
This is nonsense.

The Iliad is a work of genius and how long it 'takes to understand it' is irrelevant. As with all great works it bears continual study.

You have no evidence this place is full of teens. This is simply your small minded cope. What's really happening is the cultural shift to the right is spreading here. /lit as an ideological place is finding this transition far more painful than /fit and /biz who have embraced it seamlessly.

What you fail to understand is that the pendulum swing back to 'the right' - which should have happened in the 1930s - has been delayed and suppressed almost 100 years by the Western elite's preference for left wing politics as a tool for greater profit.

The back swing will be like nothing seen before. And the cultural norms of the recent decades:

- 'Racism' is 'bad'
- Women are 'equal'
- Jews have done nothing wrong and deserve massive political power in every country they inhabit.
- My opinion matters

will ALL be swept away as the natural order reasserts itself. Christianity might be the vehicle for this, but it won't be the insipid passive Christianity you know. It'll be closer to the Deus Vult of the crusades.

[Anonymous No.14393293]

>>14393273
reminder to anons that if you reply to this post, you're encouraging bait and it is only the dopamine hits this anon gets from (you)s that keeps him posting

[Anonymous No.14393313]

>>14393293
It's not any sort of reminder. It's your failure to have any sort of cultural perspective outside of what the television tells you manifesting as a passive aggressive snark.

[Anonymous No.14393328]

>>14393313
reminder to anons that if you reply to this post, you're encouraging bait and it is only the dopamine hits this anon gets from (you)s that keeps him posting

[Anonymous No.14393333]

>>14393273
>>14393293
>>14393313

In short, this is what is happening.

[Anonymous No.14393342]

>>14393328
Yes don't reply Goys. Do what I say and don't let this discussion develop.

[Anonymous No.14393347]

>>14393342
reminder to anons that if you reply to this post, you're encouraging bait and it is only the dopamine hits this anon gets from (you)s that keeps him posting

[Anonymous No.14393416]

>>14390177
But we still have a gf thread everyday. The total amount of utility actually went down

[Anonymous No.14393427]

>>14393293
>>14393328
>>14393347
based chemoposter

[Anonymous No.14393428]

>>14390203
Hello, butterfly! Could you please stop making these mean posts? You're violating Evolafags' safe space, therefore triggering them. Could you please have some more empathy? Thank you for your attention, take care!

[Anonymous No.14393444]

>>14393273
>What you fail to understand is that the pendulum swing back to 'the right' - which should have happened in the 1930s
It happened in 1939 and was soundly defeated in 1945

[Anonymous No.14393473]

>>14393444
>reminder to anons that if you reply to this post, you're encouraging bait and it is only the dopamine hits this anon gets from (you)s that keeps him posting

[Anonymous No.14393640]

>>14392804
you are weird

[Anonymous No.14393662]

>>14390180
you are unironically the reason why i only drop in a couple times a month now

[Anonymous No.14393669]

>complaining that people post philosophy on a literature board

[Anonymous No.14393813]

>>14390244
Nothing wrong with the first paragraph.

[Anonymous No.14393828]

>>14390213
What is that even supposed to mean? Those phrases are part of capitalism masquerading as communism?

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.14393829]

>>14392953
Naw. We donned names to filter out the idiot train that regularly brought in a fresh batch of dumb kids with their Ayn Rand or Catcher in the Rye assignments. Back then we filtered ourselves by not paying them much attention. Anonymous is such an attention whore, you realize. It was such a different atmosphere
You turds had 2016 and most of 2017, and you fucked this place up.

>>14393662
Whatcha reading?

[Anonymous No.14393838]

>>14390177
>they don't care about getting a gf

attachments lead to suffering

[Anonymous No.14393843]

>>14393829
>Anonymous is such an attention whore, you realize
none of the other trips even liked you, and most of them were terrible

[Anonymous No.14393851]

why can't you fags just ignore butterfly
>bro how is cyberbulling real just look away

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.14393864]

And here 14393843 wants an outraged (You) from me and some base-heads approvals.
Face it. The plebs who hang around here now drove the serious readers away.

[Anonymous No.14393884]

>>14393864
you don't post about literature, you are part of the problem, simple as
>It's all just off topic. Disperse.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.14393895]

I do post about literature. I’m just not posting the literature that you want to hear about.

DISPERSE

[Anonymous No.14393913]

>>14390160
If nothing else, /lit/ has helped me realize that reading non-fiction is peak midwit, and the appreciation of fiction is the true mark of a higher intellect.

[Anonymous No.14393926]

>>14393913
Fiction is mostly aimed towards dimwits, only the top percentage is above contemporary nonfiction works.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.14393950]

>>14393913
There’s good stuff in either category (lots of dreck) I don’t make fun of people for liking one over the other, neither should you.

[Anonymous No.14393959]

>>14393895
Who is this semen demon?

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.14393966]

>>14393959
Aw c’mon. No semen talk, please.

[Anonymous No.14393974]

>>14393926
Most people realize that the great majority of popular fiction is trash, yet they think that reading the latest pop history featured in the Wall Street Journal makes them learned.

It is far more rare today to have an understanding of aesthetics than sociology or philosophy

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.14393982]

>>14393959

[Anonymous No.14394072]

>>14390160
It's cute that people think any board on 4chan was even remotely good in 2014.

[Anonymous No.14394092]

>>14390160
phoneposting became more prevalent, gamergate, 2016 election cycle, and zoomers took over. I miss when /lit/ used to be a slow board.

[Anonymous No.14394101]

why does Butterfly look like hit or miss girl (guy)?

[Anonymous No.14394110]

>>14393966
Fuck off tranny

[Anonymous No.14394177]

>>14390279
This post is bait or worthy of being disregarded as bait. I've noticed /tg/ is good at calling out trolls and this creates an immune system response against such content.
/lit/ you got to step it up.

[Anonymous No.14394245]

>>14394110
>>14393982
>>14393895
Please show some compassion. You might find her annoying but imagine yourself in this situation. No matter how much you disagree with her opinions or arrogant manner, it’s not fair to breach the anonymity of 4chan like this, and it does nothing to disprove her and instead will likely convince her further that her opponents are stupid. I would be humiliated by people posting my face.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.14394256]

>>14394245
I’m arrogant?
Phh. Men are such ballsacks

[Anonymous No.14394315]

>>14394256
Yes, extremely so