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15431734 No.15431734[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

>Oh my GOD I just LOVE to read!
>I LOVE Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Rupi Kaur!

>> No.15431747

People who love HP and poopy car haven't read LotR

>> No.15431758

>>15431734
stop being bothered by other people's media consumption habits.

>> No.15431759

>>15431747
This
>>15431734
Don't put LotR in this category

>> No.15431792

>>15431758
If there are preferable choices shouldn't we direct people towards them?

>> No.15431801

>>15431792
no. they don't give a shit about whatever boring shit you're going to recommend them.

>> No.15431820

>>15431801
And that would also be your approach when it concerns your own child? Not just with culture but also say food or his schedule?

>> No.15431830

>>15431820
HA! you sure got him!


retard

>> No.15431837

>>15431820
these people are not your children. mind your business. i would allow my child to read harry potter. reading isn't food.

>> No.15431841

>>15431734
>Of course, my dear Lorenzo, I read to cultivate my soul, to ennoble the understanding, to sprinkle the passions with gracious frenzy, to build a grand citadel in the skies of contemplative imagination...
>REEEEEEEE, fucking niggers!

>> No.15431852

>>15431758
Based

>> No.15431897

>>15431830
It's just a conversation to see where the other person is coming from.

>>15431837
Would you expect no difference in outcomes whether raising a person on a diet of what are generally called great works as compared to well, garbage? (not talking about Harry Potter specifically) Do you see no individual or social benefit at all in engaging with material that maybe goes beyond escapism and power fantasies? Considering you do, should you and society at large not be interested in promoting this?

>> No.15431951

>>15431758
based and redpilled

>> No.15431977

>>15431897
>Do you see no individual or social benefit at all in engaging with material that maybe goes beyond escapism and power fantasies? Considering you do, should you and society at large not be interested in promoting this?

"directing people toward preferable choices" is more likely to annoy people than to actually get them to engage with higher forms of media. aside from that, i don't really know what society would be like if more people read Proust and fewer people read Rowling. maybe it would be better. maybe it would be worse. plenty of people who carefully curate their media consumption are horrible people.

>> No.15431994

lord of the rings is a highly intellectual work you dog. except for when the woman elf fights the orcs and doesn't die

>> No.15432051

>>15431977
Nah, it works. Look at all the people here reading ancient philosophers and such. People in society understand that their choices will be judged and behave accordingly, the best case scenario being that they actually engage with the material. I don't think the anecdotal here counts, it is the fundamental question of whether there is a hierarchical structure of taste and following from that if it is preferable to engage with the better material (whatever that means). I think so and therefore I consider some degree of snobbishness a moral obligation, it's also fun.

>> No.15432089

>>15432051
>Look at all the people here reading ancient philosophers and such.

i don't consider the people here to be particularly good/wise/kind/perceptive or anything positive.

>> No.15432108

>>15432089
But they do feel the pressure to engage with and understand challenging material. There are other factors at play here as far as board culture goes.

>> No.15432145

>>15431734
>OMGAD I looooove to read
>I love Cioran, Schopenhaurer and Houellebecq
>I'm not like other boys

>> No.15432153

>>15432108
>feel the pressure
So the board culture is based on peer pressure in order to make others like what you like and do what you do?

>> No.15432155

>>15431734
I'm going to put up posters of Guenon everyone so he can be spoken of in the same breadth as Harry Potter, finally.

>> No.15432205

>>15432153
It's not about what I like it's about what's valuable. Society creates these pressures in general and these are only ever suspect when they exclusively admonish to serve society instead of yourself (if that is even possible) but that's not how I would view this sort of self-improvement, here the goal is to build character and maybe make the individual more human. Arguably it's liberation.