/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17159195]

Are the classics outdated and should they be removed and replaced with more contemporary books in the school curriculum?

[Anonymous No.17159211]

>>17159195
Yes, because the crazy mom in Donnie Darko was the good guy all along.
It does nobody any good to see the issues in their life humanized by years and years of literary history trying to deal with them.

[Anonymous No.17159212]

What are the best niggerbooks?

[Anonymous No.17159213]

>>17159195
They shouldn't be removed. But more writers of color should be included in curriculum.

[Anonymous No.17159230]

>>17159213
Why?

[Anonymous No.17159237]

>>17159213
Yes, but not purely on the basis of their skin color.
Frederick Douglass is a classic but no school teaches him

[Anonymous No.17159242]

>>17159213
>can't find a nigger writer in the whole recommended reading wiki

You start, because I have no fucking clue what a negro writer looks like.

[Anonymous No.17159259]

>>17159195
Spengler's general argument against this is that Europeans, since they gave priority to science and rationality over the gheist and traditionalism ever since the Renaissance, are basically commiting cultural and spiritual (and thus also racial) suicide.
Ever since Europeans began viewing their history as a linear collection of random events, (i.e. result of liberalism and rationalism) the general perception of each and every past European civilization was deprived of its own unique spirit and mythology, reducing them to ancient savages who couldn't get at the level of 'rationalism and science' 21st century Europe did.
This is what neoliberalism does the conception of time; it’s fractured, they're will never be a time that we are ever “free enough” as they continue to use the state and businesses to “liberate us” in totalitarian ways in which, in the long term is a path to suicide. We will leave nothing to the future generations other than “Yeah, x an y in the past was racist” and leave them no tools for further prosperity, which means they must reinvent the wheel again.

[Anonymous No.17159271]

>>17159213
There aren't any that are on par.

[Anonymous No.17159276]

>>17159230
Because they're marginalized and deserve to have their voices heard.

[Anonymous No.17159284]

>>17159276

[Anonymous No.17159292]

>>17159276
They aren't 'marginalized'. This isn't the 1800s. And their voices shouldn't be heard just because of their color. They have to be good writers.

[Anonymous No.17159298]

>>17159292
>their voices shouldn't be heard just because of their color.
I agree, their color is reason enough

[Anonymous No.17159311]

>>17159298
Wow, 6 and now 7 (You)'s, good catch my son!

[Anonymous No.17159314]

>>17159195
She thinks she's making a difference. What slave morality.>>17159213

[Anonymous No.17159317]

>>17159298
No. That's backwards thinking. You have to find good writers and then add them to the list. Not just choosing skins.

[Anonymous No.17159324]

>>17159317
There are plenty of good writers of color, but they're just ignored.

[Anonymous No.17159330]

>>17159195
Yes. I don't understand why the arts need to stagnate, while everything else gets to keep progressing. When we learn something new in the STEM fields, it's integrated into the curriculum. Art is just rehashing the same shit over and over again.

[Anonymous No.17159353]

>>17159324
'Plenty' is an exaggeration. There are few. Don't even know what you mean by 'of color', anyway. Every person is of a color.

[Anonymous No.17159360]

>>17159195
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>>17159330
These are all bait posts
Don't reply to them

[Anonymous No.17159361]

>>17159353
He means people of poo.

[Anonymous No.17159374]

>>17159330
There's no progress in art. Otherwise, the latest novel ever relesed would've been greater than Don Quixote or War and Peace or Les Misérables. That's a bugman worldview that only works for science or technology.

[Anonymous No.17159378]

>>17159317
Well, you're correct, but there are certain ideas and histories that should be taught as well, like a first person account of slavery in America.
Frederick Douglass wrote a very historically valuable book that also contains powerful ideas about the nature of freedom, and a view of slavery that makes it appear incredibly comparable to the unionized structure of employment today

[Anonymous No.17159388]

>>17159378
That's already been taught in the US, though.

[Anonymous No.17159389]

>>17159360
>everything i don't like is bait

[Anonymous No.17159394]

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[Anonymous No.17159416]

>>17159388
No it's just taught that it exists. I have never met anyone in America that read the book as an assignment in public school. I have also not seen any movement for it to be added to schools in this whole disrupt texts movement.
Most of the hardcore liberals I know haven't even read it during their free time, but that's because they're too busy rewatching marvel movies