/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.1644838]

>"the arts"
>not just a social construct to uphold the prevailing ideologies of the dominant power structure
>mfw

[scout !!1wBNr3mLJL+ No.1644857]

>assertions
>not just the pinnacle of self-deception
>mfw

[Truman Capote !!cO9KVBDtkqQ No.1644859]

Sociology is an art too.

And you know what else is? trolling.

[Anonymous No.1644867]

Such a stupid way to begin a thread.

[Anonymous No.1644868]

>implying sociology isn't a social science

[Anonymous No.1644866]

So, no art when the dogs take over, huh?

[Anonymous No.1644894]

>uphold the prevailing ideologies of the dominant power structure
>implying art has any useful function

SAGE

[Anonymous No.1644900]

>>1644838

Right, because counterculture doesn't exist?

If anything, art does the exact OPPOSITE of what you say.

Idiot.

[Anonymous No.1644908]

"the arts"
you get paid to make "da arts"
who pays you?
"the patron"
so the patron gets their arts, right?

comission, coop.
millionaires kissing billionaires

andddddddd- scene

[Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.1644923]

>>1644900
>Right, because counterculture doesn't exist?
it doesn't

>art does the exact OPPOSITE of what you say
In fact, it does the exact opposite of what YOU say

[Anonymous No.1644940]

>>1644868
>implying sociology isn't a major for people who aren't good at anything useful

[Anonymous No.1644952]

>>1644923

cool argument bro

[Anonymous No.1644954]

>sociology
>not just a construct that allows marxists and women to sit around and complain while pretending to do something useful
>mfw

[Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.1644958]

>>1644952
See Adorno&Horkheimer, Baudrillard, et al. I have better things to do, sorry.

[Pseudonym !YgQRHAJqRA No.1644968]

I think the arts do have a role in communicating messages, including culture, as well as providing entertainment.

My opinions on sociology and a few other soft sciences are somewhat skewed: I'm into International Relations, Economics, and Political Science, so I tend to look down on it. Then again, I think Economics are a bit silly, but that's also a bias of mine.

[Anonymous No.1644973]

>>1644954
>>1644940

>implying, even if true, this somehow invalidates the OP

[Anonymous No.1644981]

>>1644973
>implying there's a chance that isn't true
>implying we weren't responding to a specific poster in the thread instead of the OP
>implying you're not a Sociology major

[Orz !!HZgLax1Xs6q No.1644982]

There's a difference between art and "ART". There are always going to be talented people of all political persuasions. The ones that maintain the status quo, talented or not, are more visible because they get time in galleries, magazines and coffee-table books. People who appreciate talent will still find it, regardless of how hard the merchant classes push their pathetic definitions of art (pic related).

[Anonymous No.1644993]

>>1644981

>implying any of this makes sociology not a social science
>implying you're NOT an art major shamefully mooching off a friend or relative just to exist

[Anonymous No.1644999]

>>1644982
b-b-but damien hirst

[Anonymous No.1645038]

>>1644958
>post in thread
>"I have better things to do"
>mfw

[Anonymous No.1645235]

>>1644958
>Deep&Edgy
>"things to do"

That's the first laugh I've had all day...

Thanks for that, mate.

[Anonymous No.1645242]

>implying 'social construct' isn't a social construct
>implying art being a social construct makes it less important than other things

[Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.1645248]

>>1645038
>>1645235

sorry guys I am pretty busy these days

[Anonymous No.1645263]

>>1645242
>implying ">implying art being a social construct makes it less important than other things" isn't just a social construct
>implying art being "more important than other things" doesn't just distract you from the injustice of our current power structure

[Anonymous No.1645289]

>>1645263
>implying " ">implying art being a social construct makes it less important than other things" isn't just a social construct"

everything is a social construct

>implying I said art was more important than other things

nothing is important

[Anonymous No.1645295]

>>1645263
>implying everything isn't a social construct
>implying anything is important in an objective manner

[Anonymous No.1645305]

>>1645295
So I guess whether or not your body needs to food to function is subjective?

[Anonymous No.1645311]

>implying ">implying" isn't >implying "implied" implications

[Anonymous No.1645315]

>>1645305

It's my preference for eating that makes eating food important.

[Anonymous No.1645324]

>>1645315
That doesn't answer the question.

So if I don't *prefer* to eat, my body doesn't require food to function?

That's seriously what you believe?

[Anonymous No.1645327]

>>1645324

Your body requires food to function. Fact.
Eating is important. Not fact.

[Anonymous No.1645341]

>>1645324
You're making the assumption that people value their lives, he's not. Assumptions are bad, I suppose, although that one is certainly excusable.

[Anonymous No.1645503]

>>1644973

implying you're not OP

[Anonymous No.1645511]

/lit/ needs more threads about relativism and this sort of shit

[Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.1645516]

[Anonymous No.1645614]

>>1645511
>implying this thread is about relativism

nigga can u read?

[Anonymous No.1645706]

>>1645516

I find this shallow and pedantic.

[Anonymous No.1645708]

>>1645706
Shallow&Flaccid.

[Fenton !CW6LlqZOVU No.1645715]

>>1644954
...but...but....Marxists are antipositivists!

[Anonymous No.1645721]

>>1645516
Obvious troll is obvious, but some of these are stupid. What's wrong with being a physicalist of the mind when there're good arguments for that position?

Second, people only still discuss the cosmological argument because it's still being pushed by prominent debaters despite how ridiculous it is. It's like how people still have to rebut the claim that you can't be a decent human being with God--we wouldn't be still discussing it if there weren't still stupid people pushing that claim.

Finally, I find it hard to believe that a philosophy undergraduate could still be a cultural relativist. But that's just me.