/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17385564]

/Lit/ is more educated than most university professors.

[Anonymous No.17385569]

>>17385564
>Implying that it´s hard to be more educated than university professors

[Anonymous No.17385577]

>>17385564
>Implying your professors aren't /lit/ posters

[Anonymous No.17385591]

This is cope for being a shut in neet

[Anonymous No.17385611]

>>17385591
>t. never been to college to see first hand how retarded professors are

[Anonymous No.17385627]

>>17385564
It wouldn't be surprising.

[Anonymous No.17385632]

>>17385577
They aren't.

[Anonymous No.17385633]

>>17385591
I'm in medical school and /litizen and I'm a lot smarter than my professors or other med students. I feel only engineering students might be smarter than med students so I'd agree with the statement overall. I have some really intelligent peers and professors, most are dense though.

[Anonymous No.17385641]

the internet generation educates easier, the really committed can become walking encyclopedias in no time.

that said your professors were probably like you once too, in their youth. only their interest fades every year they spend teaching the same thing again until all their passion is gone and all their knowledge is reduced to packaged platitude

[Anonymous No.17385651]

>>17385564
Bullshit

[Anonymous No.17385664]

>>17385611
Have you ever been to /lit/?

[Anonymous No.17385667]

>>17385564
no

[Anonymous No.17385669]

>>17385564
low barrier

[Anonymous No.17385731]

>>17385633
>engineering students might be smart
>med students are smart

[Anonymous No.17385737]

>>17385651
You’re obviously correct. But I reckon that OP’s statement is valid in certain fields.

[Anonymous No.17385745]

>>17385633
Why would a medical professor be knowledgeable about literature? The age of polymaths is long gone.

Nowadays even the most successful people in STEM fields have no clue about anything outside their field of expertise.

[Anonymous No.17385747]

>>17385564
No, you just repeat shit you read online (Wikipedia, etc) without actually understanding it.

[Anonymous No.17385755]

>>17385633
I've rarely met an exceptionally intelligent person that degraded the intelligence of others, and never one that ran their mouth about how smart they are. I think a lot of /lit/ could bear to learn that lesson

[Anonymous No.17385768]

>>17385755
because the intelligent people you met where selected by a process for their obedience, loyalty and meekness.

or do you honestly think there have never been rude, aggressive or prejudiced intelligent people? be careful this type of thinking is what led to racist ideologies in the past (we good, stranger bad).

[Anonymous No.17385772]

>>17385632
Some actually are. Sorry you never earned their trust and favor enough for them to tell them things about themselves lmao

[Anonymous No.17385836]

>>17385564
I bet my ass I had discussion on here about my field with other academics of the same field.

[Anonymous No.17385849]

>>17385564
People here are not as smart as they think they are.

[Anonymous No.17385851]

>>17385755
How am I degrading others? I'm stating something that for me is very close to factual information. There is no emotional connotation in my statement, you're reading that into it out of insecurity.

[Anonymous No.17385853]

>>17385755
I think people tend to run their mouths about their own intellect more anonymously desu. I never insult people's intelligence IRL, nor claim to be intelligent, but I do it all the time here just to make my arguments seem stronger.

[Anonymous No.17385870]

>>17385745
The age of polymaths is here, never been a better time for it due to accessibility of knowledge. Of course when we talk about professional knowledge an orthopaedic surgeon should excel in his field, but if he has not read big parts of the Western canon by the time he's 35 he's a plebean. I know some orthopaedic surgeons who are also professors and they are without exception well read when compared to the average person (I'm talking about literature and philosophy here).

I'm not arguing a surgeon should be a top philosopher, but he should know the classic writers, philosophers and literature.

[Anonymous No.17385882]

>>17385853
True, I'm the med student and I would never brag about being more intelligent than my peers non-anonymously. I sometimes will state the lack of critical thinking that I find in the medical profession, but I will back it up with arguments and go at it lightly.

[Anonymous No.17385900]

>>17385564
Well, no. Most university professors have the maximum amount of education. It’s more like education is worthless socialization.

[Anonymous No.17385906]

>>17385564
I wish.

[Anonymous No.17386000]

>>17385641
This

[Anonymous No.17386030]

>christtards, traditiontards and tweenagers who just read Nietzsche for the first time
Ah yes, very ‘educated’ indeed

[Anonymous No.17386037]

>educated
>/lit/
KEK

[Anonymous No.17386052]

>>17385564
No, but they pretend to be

[Anonymous No.17386057]

>>17385755
The thing is, there are certain types of people. When I was younger, I had a deluded notion that everyone could be as capable as me, and therefore could construct a reasonable and agreeable society based on logic, mutual respect, and individualist principles. Sadly, that turned out to be false. I learned about the slave class through researching theology, psychology, and sociology. There always has been one, and there will always be one. A pain in my heart will always be held when thinking about these people, simply because my young idealism was squashed by their inherent incapabilities.

[Anonymous No.17386074]

>>17385641
I remember, as a little child, numerous teachers would call be the "walking encyclopaedia". I never really liked the moniker but it was mostly attributed to my pasttime of watching TV documentaries and sitting down reading books in the library.

[Anonymous No.17386076]

>>17385870
why though?

[Anonymous No.17386093]

There are only like 3 or 4 people in here who are intelligent (or at least they seem intelligent because they use big words that I don't understand).

[Anonymous No.17386094]

Why are genius-level intelligence people less common now?

[Anonymous No.17386099]

>>17386076
Because they're curious, an inherent quality of highly intelligent people. They want to ever increase their consciousness and know that art and history and literature are imperative (but not enough) for that.

[Anonymous No.17386107]

Just because your professor isn’t familiar with one meme philosopher you picked up from here doesn’t mean you are more educated.

[Anonymous No.17386111]

>>17386094
Bowden was a complete retard with a 14 year olds understanding of Nietzsche

[Anonymous No.17386122]

>>17385633
>Med "Student"
Medicine is not a real academic field.
Medical Doctors are basically plumbers for the human body and most are not even good in their profession.
Furthermore most Med Students are retards, their only quality is learning the name of bones, muscles and organs ad nauseam.
The trade of Medicine requires no intelligence.
If you are a microbiologist or human biologist THEN you deserve respect.

[Anonymous No.17386126]

>>17386122
unironically kys

[Anonymous No.17386137]

>>17385870
You clearly dont know what polymath means.

[Anonymous No.17386141]

>>17386126
He is right, though.

[Anonymous No.17386143]

>>17386126
t. Triggered Body Plumber

[Anonymous No.17386163]

>>17386111
Not true, he just knew that he had to bring Nietzsche and intellectuality into politics through a different and more utile manner. Admittedly, he read extraordinarily broadly, but not too deeply. Though of course on figures like Nietzsche he read extensively all of his works.

[Anonymous No.17386169]

>>17386122
>Medical Doctors are basically plumbers for the human body and most are not even good in their profession.
Yup. It's all prescriptive learning. No understanding. Just "if X, do Y" for years and years.

[Anonymous No.17386181]

>>17385633
>I feel only engineering students might be smarter than med students
Seriously? All the med students I know are on the whole smarter than the eng students, who are fucking autistic retards. I knew one guy who I lived with in halls who would make a pasta bake with BBQ sauce, baked beans and sausage meat. He would literally throw raw sausage meat into the pasta bake without even cooking it first. Fucking vile

[Anonymous No.17386186]

>>17386163
Maybe he was just dumbing it down for pub lectures.
Nevertheless, in doing so he ended up badly misreading whether on purpose or accidentally much of the mans work.

[Anonymous No.17386190]

>>17386126
seethe

[Anonymous No.17386201]

>>17386111
What did Bowden say about Nietzsche?

[Anonymous No.17386202]

It is like comparing your erect dick to someone's flaccid. Professors are plenty educated, but most don't go for the "look at me im so smahhhhht" approach that is so common in most posts here. This board reeks of insecurity. /sci/ is pretty legit though

[Anonymous No.17386282]

>>17386122
Can confirm. My father's side of the family has been practicing medicine for as long as can be remembered (the farthest traceable ancestor we have was the closest thing to doctor in the 1780's). My great grandfather worked on the cure for syphilis, and preached loudly about the dangers of alcohol. However, the members of my family who practice medicine today are nowhere as admirable as the ones who did so in the past. They are intelligent, yes, but they are merely repairmen and not pursuers of innovation in the field as would the other members of my family attempted to do through engineering.

[Anonymous No.17386313]

>>17386094
>genius-level intelligence
>the British king of incels
Pick one.

Also, why do people promoting hardcore racial hygiene always look like the very untermenschen trolls they want society to get rid of?

[Anonymous No.17386314]

>>17386122
income correlates well with IQ, medicine is competitive and the highest IQ profession because it pays so well. Sad to see that you did not get into med school bro.

[Anonymous No.17386398]

>>17386057
Is this a moviebob post
>>17385853
This is true, but it doesn't make your arguments stronger. Anyone can remark that their mother called them a very handsome and smart young man, don't mean much
>>17385851
To call someone dense is to degrade them, even if you don't do it in person it is bad practice imo. To confidently declare one's high intellectual status is a clear sign someone isn't getting the full picture of life, placing too much emphasis on vain measures

[Anonymous No.17387547]

>>17386314
According to your logic actors and professional athletes are the elites of society.

[Anonymous No.17387553]

>>17385632
Don’t be so sure

[Anonymous No.17387567]

>>17385564
lmfaooooo this place gossips and flings shit more than 14 y/o teens having a sleepover

[Anonymous No.17387570]

>>17385564
lmao no they're not. i can tell you never went to college.

[Anonymous No.17387576]

>>17386186
What would you consider a misreading of Nietzsche, anon?

[Anonymous No.17387586]

>>17385564
>/lit/ knows more about literature than 95% of math professors
yeh, probably true

[Anonymous No.17387587]

>>17386314
Not really. The only thing it filters for is people who study a lot.

[Anonymous No.17387608]

lit does understand some literary stuff better since academia is politicized and has to misinterpret the work to analyze it at times. there are artlets that dont get that the ultimate goal of lit is aesthetic pleasure on lit too but you straight up cant be an aesthete in academia.

[Anonymous No.17387635]

>>17385755
>I've rarely met an exceptionally intelligent person
go outside then faggot

[Anonymous No.17387653]

>>17387608
this board is unfortunately becoming increasingly more politicized and populated by tourists who make thinly veiled political ideology threads that hardly discuss any specific literature or writers. even this place is succumbing to the culture war

[Anonymous No.17388178]

>>17385564
Went to college. This place is shit but I have learnt 20 times more here than there

[Anonymous No.17388183]

>>17386186
Answer me!

[Anonymous No.17388184]

>>17385564
Nigga

[Anonymous No.17388232]

>>17385564
Share your big ass brains with us and join the /lit/ discord https://discord.gg/RCHDCR2VaP

[Anonymous No.17388236]

No..

[Anonymous No.17388243]

>>17385564
I've read some books and have a law degree. I am more "educated" than most people.

[Anonymous No.17388265]

>>17388243
Are you also poopenfartacated? HUH!? I CAN'T HEAR YOUUUUUU. Punk ass

[Anonymous No.17388277]

>>17388265
>Are you also poopenfartacated?
Of course.

[Anonymous No.17389111]

>>17385564
Cringe

[Anonymous No.17389146]

>>17385564
KEK is this /lit/?

[Anonymous No.17389150]

>>17385564
It's fair to say that, compared to even /sci/ these days, /lit/ seems like a grassy knoll of Limbo, its NEETS reclining on their blankets under an overcast that, while no bird sings in it, isn't quite so full of the uproar issuing from lower deeps. The occasional Pagan Pilgrim drops in, with no plan to take the full route down, trailing faint lyric scents and scenery of the Earth in high summer, then buggers off without reply.

[PERSY UBOMPA No.17389453]

>>17389150
AND THEN HE SHAT HIMSELF

[Anonymous No.17389470]

>>17386122
>If you are a microbiologist or human biologist THEN you deserve respect.
...but earn no money

[PERSY UBOMPA No.17389477]

>>17389470
YEAH BUT WHO SAID --------------UBOMPA PATROL

[Anonymous No.17389480]

>>17386282
And you're the one breaking the tradition?

[Anonymous No.17389527]

>>17386313
Bowden was far from an Untermensch. He just aged pretty rough.

[Anonymous No.17389529]

>>17385564
it's not.

[Anonymous No.17389537]

>>17386398
What's a moviebob post?

[Anonymous No.17389538]

>>17389470
They earn more than humano plumbers

[Anonymous No.17389550]

>>17385564
There are a few really smart people who post here plus a mass of midwits plus a few genuinely retarded people like the all caps tripfag pedo guy. Sometimes people post stuff here that is genius tier, but it's rare

[PERSY UBOMPA No.17389559]

>>17389550
AND THEN THERE ARE THOSE WHO """SHAT""" THEMSELVES-----------------------------------------------------UBOMPA PATROL

[Anonymous No.17389565]

>>17385591
Shut in with 1000 books, yeah

[Anonymous No.17389747]

>>17385564
Some of the effortposters here could feasibly be professors. Great professors. At least, they could be, if it weren't for some personality flaws, a lack of money, lack of desire, etc. They have the potential, however.
The majority of us? We're maggots writhing in filth and shit, hoping to btfo another retard in an argument.

[Anonymous No.17389865]

>>17385564
False (unless you are American)

[Anonymous No.17389893]

>>17385591
>This is cope for being a shut in neet
It's funny how many people say this in threads all over /lit/ but us shut-in NEETs never go where you or your boring friends hang out (reddit, gay twitter cliques) because we don't care what you think and you aren't interesting talk to. Yet you keep coming here to hang around with us, you talk shit but you keep coming back, you can't help it

[Anonymous No.17390168]

>>17385564
Dont kid yourselves, /lit/ is pretend-smart.

[Anonymous No.17390238]

>>17385870
>read big parts of the western canon before 35
that's how I can tell that you're a pseud

[Anonymous No.17390293]

I am your professor

>>17388265
Incredible post. AAAAAAAAAAA

[Anonymous No.17390301]

>>17386122
They hated him because he told the truth.

[Anonymous No.17390317]

>>17389893
Lmao this

[Anonymous No.17390507]

>>17386313
>demigod, allfather, genius-level, intelligence
>the British king of volcels
pick both, and so much more.

[Anonymous No.17390521]

>>17385772
>>17387553
Community college instructors aren’t professors fyi

[Anonymous No.17390634]

>>17386122
lmao based

[Anonymous No.17390685]

You're mistaken. the written form and anonymous nature of 4chan give the pretence of erudition. If professors started posting on this board most anons would instantly get filtered