/lit/ - Literature

Honest question: why do you continue to post here?

I had lurked and occasionally shitposted for a year. Eventually, I found Bloom's Western Canon. I have a background in undergraduate philosophy so I already had a reading list that I knew I would have to come to grips with. Reading any text that isn't merely published or accessed through public domain means that you get a scholarly introduction and a reading list to move forward with. Finding "contemporary" work is easy since publishers are constantly trying to push their wares on you, not to mention that their business model forces them to reprint works that actually mattered or at least have the public conception of mattering. Literary and political journals keep relevant works front and center.

So, there's no need for me to try and find other primary sources to read through 4chan. It's so easily accessible elsewhere and all of you are savvy enough to know what you need to read and how best to access it. Occasionally, I would see a really well thought out point that made a work or an author more accessible. Unfortunately, I would have to sift through mountains of the same tired memes and /pol/ spillover to find it, finding instead that the sheer volume of shit content was having a larger net effect than any of the occasional and real profundity that anon would put out there.

Scholarly discourse is also very easy to access. Any idiot with a friend in school has access to JSTOR and there are so many commentaries and edited volumes of even the most obscurely written Continental philosophy that there is nothing to be gained in the terse posting that 4chan almost always requires. Why would you want distilled information about something you care about instead of actually exploring it anyways?

Unless you're one of those relativists and believe that all works matter and your finite reading list is arbitrary, then keep doing this because there really isn't any premium placed on your limited amount of time before senility or early death. Otherwise, why? What keeps you coming back? I ask for myself too. It's been at least three months since I've posted here and still I come back and see that nothing has changed. People setting up their camps and talking about how difficult Hegel is to read. Same same same.

>>8994427
>Episode IV
You forgot Torture Bot + Leia (could include Vader)

>>8873408
>not an argument.

>>8664060

dont think youre special. youre aging and youre behind.