/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.9896687]

>Year 2030
>A book comes out from a philosopher
>Nobody is able to understand him because they do not have a background in the comments, exchanges on boards and blogs he was exposed to and which shaped his thought
>At first the book was hardly being read but after some time it becomes a very popular book
>Years later
>Some doxxer has written a biography on this philosopher with quotes he found from the philosophers early days, one being: "Sonic touches the heart immediately, as the true basic language that everyone everywhere understands"
>The bibliography describes how he later, at older age, rejects Sonic "Is Sonic an authentic character at all? Is he rather not a disease?"
>Later in the bibliography it describes some of the comments he made on a bunch pornographic videos and writes about his first exposure to the redpill community
>The bibliography futher discusses the comments he made at Xenosystes and how exchanges on Slate Star Codex had influenced his later philosophy
>The bibliography then describes some rumors that the philosopher might have been a lover of traps based on some of the comments that the doxxer found
>Also discussed is the possiblity that the philosopher might have been severely autistic
This is the future that people choose.

[Anonymous No.9897406]

Keep telling yourself this OP.

[Anonymous No.9897715]

>>9897406
This was supposed to be satire, but didn't turn out to be good - at all. The satire is based on a biography of Nietzsche. It discussed his notes, his letters to his peers and other philosophers, and how this influenced and shaped his thought. There was also bits on his personal life.

Imagine if a Nietzsche was born in today's age. He would still read books, but it seems rather likely that he would also spend time on places of the internet. Instead of letters to people he knows in real-life, he could be having a lot of exchanges on message boards, could've read certain blogs, etc.

Philosophers make more sense in a historical context when we know what kind of ideas were there at the time. In case of the internet age, a lot of those ideas might be found online. That's the gist of this. That future thinkers are shaped outside of meatspace.

[Anonymous No.9897722]

>>9896687
>>9897715
can anyone give me a TLDR?

[Anonymous No.9897733]

>>9896687
If the faggot can't make the ideas self contained in a book, they are probably not worth the time either way.

>>9897715
You don't need all this shit to understand him. It only gives additional context which is nice but not necessary.

[Anonymous No.9897774]

>>9897733
>You don't need all this shit to understand him.
Agreed, but you'll understand better where his ideas come from.
If Nietzsche was born in another epoch his philosophy could perhaps be somewhat similar simply due to his personality, but the rest of it would be shaped by experience and the cultural environment. So yes I can agree with this:
>It only gives additional context which is nice but not necessary.