/lit/ - Literature

>Author is Chicano

>>9158128

>wanted to kill himself at 23 because the world is useless, basically coldsteel the hedgehog

From the 19th century onwards, educated people have often flirted with nihilism/suicide/etc, sometimes taking them to their logical conclusions. Ol' Wittgenstein strongly considered it, for example.

Post-WW2, we've all been too distracted by consumerism to seriously entertain such existential crises.

>started larping as a budhist

So does Sam Harris, the official /lit/ philosopher.

>was a fascist but too snowflake to join the italian or german nazi movements

More that he was too aristocratic. He did give them some support, but has reservations about their populist elements - namely appealing to the common man/rabble/etc.

>no kids, no marriage, but started writing about sex and tantra for some reason, believed virgins should be deflowered by ceremonial raping

I see no problem with this. Who the fuck would have kids or get married in the modern day? If you're a man, the law is stacked against you.

>read and believed every crap of new-age quackery that is responsible for the threads on /x/

I don't know why the esoteric triggers so many people. Goethe took alchemy seriously, for example. Big whoop.

>the Tradition is....DUDE I CAN'T TELL YOU WHAT THE TRADITION IS ONLY PEOPLE THAT WERE BORN KNOWING ABOUT IT KNOW ABOUT IT TOUGH LUCK KIDDO

His definition of tradition is something very Platonic, akin to 'forms.' Needless to say that when /pol/ hears the word 'tradition' for example, they think of something rather interesting.

Nonetheless, his own definition is pretty interesting.

>>9154759

>practical philosophy
>practical
>philosophy

"But in our day it is necessity, neediness, that prevails, and bends a degraded humanity under its iron yoke. Utility is the great idol of the time, to which all powers do homage and all subjects are subservient." - Friedrich Schiller

That is to say, all Utilitarians must hang.

>Kantbot deletes all his previous tweets so they'll have no reason to ban him
>still gets banned

>>9140241

>Alfred Lord Tennyson
>Ulysses
>Fuck you I'm using 5 lines

We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

>>9136993

>There's a culture of popular = bad here

And it's here to stay, you fucking pleb.

We're aesthetes here. The democratisation of education/culture/etc was a mistake.

>>9123900
>lol if I make my bizzare unfounded incoherent paranoid """ideas""" into a diagram that makes them legit XDD

t. modern right winger

>90 pages

Anyone else finding that they've tethered their politics to their personal sense of inferiority so that they overestimate the intelligence of those with opposing beliefs? Any way out of this?

>>9063160

No discernible talent.

The school of resentments at it again I see
Out! You are boring!

>>9021156
mfw

>>9003999
>Read a book by an immigrant or with a central immigration narrative.
>Read a YA or middle grade novel by an author who identifies as LGBTQ+.
>Read a classic by an author of color.
>Read a book in which a character of color goes on a spiritual journey
>Read an LGBTQ+ romance novel
>Read a book wherein all point-of-view characters are people of color.

>>8983799

>Reading books to "improve" yourself

>Finish reading Iliad, want to read more about Homer as an author in specific
>Order a book about Homer from Amazon
>Get The Iliad in the mail

now I have 2 copies

>>8986085

1) Read Harold Bloom's 'The Western Canon'

2) Grasp his basic argument with respect to the aesthetic (namely that the aesthetic and agonistic are one, that 'Canon' works are born out of the agon, etc)

3) Walk all over them

>>8976210

>School of Resentment

NO

DISCERNIBLE

TALENT

>>8955843

>Being so contemptuous towards X she doesn't even care about providing reasons.

So she's attending the Harold Bloom School of Literary Criticism?

>>8952696

>The media knew they could twist it into a "political correctness gone mad/reverse racism" story

No twisting required.

>>8943858
The problem today is that our modern day "scholars" aren't being taught Homer, the Bible, or Shakespeare.

>>8914893
>No
>Discernible
>Talent

>>8914078
>being this contrarian
>Give ZERO (0) examples
>being this wrong about Dosto

Wanna know how I can tell you've never read him? Kek, the autism from your post is incredible. Not a single professor would dismiss Dosto and call his perspective bullshit. I really hope this post is bait.

>>8912827

>There is no l'art pour l'art

Fucking Zizek posters.

>>8912405
this wtf, OP can you really not into basic existentialism? What are you, like 14? Serious pleb shit.