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7136236 No.7136236 [Reply] [Original]

>tfw you realize you only need to know around 2-3 poets and 3 philosophers really well to sound like a genius and if somebody ever brings one up you don't know about just say they're shit, inauthentic or ephemeral and you'll still sound smart

>> No.7136240

if the only people you ever talk with are other frauds and dilettantes, sure.

>> No.7136244
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>tfw you realize you're smart in comparison to idiots

congratulations anon

>> No.7136251

This is most of /lit/

They completely skip the years 350-1650 as if nothing happened for over a thousand years. Pretty pathetic tbh

>> No.7136253

>tfw plebs think you're well read because you read up on some fringe greek philosophy with few surviving works.

lmao

>> No.7136262

>>7136251
Don't you know those were the Dark ages, anon? Where everything went to shit and there was no progress at all? Basic history fam :^)

>> No.7136267

>>7136240
Which is the vast majority of people.

But I'll be one of them

I'll be autistically angry, but still be passive aggressive about it.

I hate you.

>> No.7136285

>>7136251
because its shit, inauthentic, ephemeral

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>>7136236

>Using intellectualism as a defence mechanism against deep-seated inferiority complexes

Nauseating and plebeian.

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7136301

Or you could read more because you have a genuine interest in literature.

>> No.7136303

>tfw you quote a french rap song around anglophones and tell them that it's a lacan quote

>> No.7136313

>>7136303

I had a friend once who had just gotten into Lacan. During a bout of drinking, I made him take a sip whenever he name-dropped him. He nearly died.

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>>7136313
just proves how interesting Lacan is

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>>7136313

>> No.7136647

>>7136285
underrated post

>> No.7136651

>>7136253
>Floor mates think I'm autistic cause I actually started explaining stoicism when they asked what I was reading.
Should have just told them "just some old boring books"

>> No.7136655

>>7136296
It is what it is.