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Should I dedicate my life to non-fiction in direct search of truths or fiction and live the /lit/ life, in search of truths through lyric. What's the truly /lit/ move?

>> No.14778433

Dedicate yourself to things you want to do or accomplish, not to abstract headlines.

>> No.14778453

Non-fiction and basic knowledge will be outmoded by later researchers and writers (Chomsky himself is a huge example). Whereas, with prose or poetry, you will be remembered for the beauty of expression and the 'poetic truths', read continuously, rather than be seen as a footnote to some other textbook or research paper, even if the content of your writing turns out to be dead wrong.

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>>14778423
Dedicate your life to the revolution.

So that we might enjoy a little of both without worry.

>> No.14779134

>>14778728
The revolution is never going to happen and you're just going to waste your life and die with no change in the system like Chomsky will.

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>>14779134
I hope it doesn’t happen in the way you think it would/wont. Because there’s precious little time for that nonsense.

>> No.14779155

>>14779153
Nothing is going to happen. You are just larping.

>> No.14779164

>>14779155
She's just a fat, lazy, aging lesbian. She literally does nothing but sit on her ass and shitpost about the revolution. It's pathetic

>> No.14779174

>>14779155
A lot is happening Now.
Currently I am just theorizing and strategizing. But I will be able to call myself a revolutionary someday.

>> No.14779181

>>14779174
Bait

>> No.14779192

>>14779174
I think you specifically are responsible for the lack of quality dialogue on /lit/

>> No.14779196

>>14778423
>Should I dedicate my life to non-fiction in direct search of truths
There is such a thing as literary nonfiction, as well as nonliterary nonfiction.

>or fiction and live the /lit/ life, in search of truths through lyric.
What do you mean?

>> No.14779198

>>14779192
You should dedicate yourself to fiction reading.

>> No.14779212

>>14779134
>The revolution is never going to happen
Has a revolution ever happened in human history? If so, why do you believe a revolution will never happen in the future?

>> No.14779216

Chomsky is a retard

>> No.14779218

>>14779192
No, people like you are.

>> No.14779220

>>14779212
There needs to be something in life worth than the possibility of losing your life. No one in America except larpers want a revolution because life is good for 90% of the population.

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>>14779220
I’ve taken this sort of thing into consideration

>> No.14779230

>>14779220
>life is good for 90% of the population
OK, that is an empirical claim. At some point -- maybe now, maybe later -- that supposition will be put to the test.

>> No.14779232

>>14779226
Is this you.if so cute. Anyways you didn't respond to the problem. What's the terrible thing that are gonna make Americans rise up and risk to lose their lives?

>> No.14779239

>>14779230
What do you think are going to make the majority of Americans ready to fight?

>> No.14779266

>>14779239
I don't know. What I do know is that eventually the dam breaks. The French Revolution happens. The Fenian Brotherhood succeeds in transferring ownership of the means of production (ie. land) from absentee English aristocrats to the Irish tenant farmers who made it work. Whether it happens in ten years or ten thousand years, it will happen.

>> No.14779278

>>14779266
>it will happen.
That's very confident. I can make the opposite statement and it's just as valid.

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>>14779232
Umm. That’s Boxxy, and if you don’t know what’s coming... like I said, you should probably just dedicate your life to reading fiction

>> No.14779292

>>14779289
>if you don’t know what’s coming..
I don't think you know what's coming. I know what's coming you don't.

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all these fucking books are pushing me out of my own room?
wat do?
halp!

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>>14779293
Kondo Method. *click*

Nice pic

>> No.14779301

>>14779278
>That's very confident.
It really isn't. If humanity survives the next few hundred years, Capital will almost certainly be socialized. That's a pretty conservative assessment.

>I can make the opposite statement and it's just as valid.
I don't think so.

>> No.14779302

>>14779301
>It really isn't. If humanity survives the next few hundred years, Capital will almost certainly be socialized. That's a pretty conservative assessment.
How do you come to that conclusion?

>I don't think so.
I think so.

>> No.14779309

>>14779302
>How do you come to that conclusion?
The physics of entropy.

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>>14779300
Thanks for always sparking joy :p

>> No.14779356

>>14778423
>Should I dedicate my life to non-fiction in direct search of truths
Only if you have at least a master's degree in the field you want to publish in
>or fiction and live the /lit/ life,
Only if you are a bohemian and have lived through hardship