/lit/ - Literature

>been overrun by 16 year old trumptards for the last few years
>now about to be overrun by 16 year old leftoid edgelord
Will we never find peace?

What is the exact cause of the social malaise that led to his books becoming so popular? What created these "men without chests," this plague bitter unloved narcissistic lazy hedonistic incompetence that has so gripped a certain portion of the male psyche in the past few decades. Any books which document this?

What books are there about God's own losers, people who struggle to succeed in anything, always falling flat on their face?

>be me
>24
>work in a secondary school as a English Learning Coach, teaching 14 year olds about iambic pentameter because the teachers can't be arsed
>miss my bus after work so hang round the school for an hour
>go into school "library" which is less a library and more a glass box in the middle of a corridor with around 150 books strewn randomly on poorly fitted shelves
>never seen a kid reading in there in my six months working at the school
>there's a nice selection of Modern Library hardcovers, dust drenched and seemingly untouched
>I start reading "Tom Jones" as I wait
>about 30 seconds later a group of teachers walk past in the corridor next to me.
>two of them look into the library through the deceptively thin glass windows and scoff
>as they walk away I hear them say:
>"was he... reading?"
>"does he know it's not a public library?"
>"needs to get a fucking life."
> I wanted to catch up with them and have it out with them but I would have just looked like a nutter
At the risk of sounding like a teenage pseud, you will never find a more fervent hotbed for anti-intellectualism than a comprehensive secondary school. I imagine it's similar stateside. The whole system unironically needs knocking down.

Why do we bother with books anymore when podcasts are so much better and more efficient at communicating information? The spoken word is the new written word. I'm seriously considering throwing all my books away and just listening to podcasts from now on? Who needs Gibbon (whose work is totally old fashioned and outdated when you have Dan Carlin? There are more interesting and revolutionary ideas in one Joe Rogan podcast than in the last 50 years of philosophy combined.

Dr Peterson explains it very well below.

https://youtu.be/9LCxaaodBl8

>in b4 "hopefully" or some other such wack response.

After the whole enforced monogamy debacle as well as his poor performances in the Munk and Dilahunty debates, I think his position is very fragile ATM.

He's a smart man (with lapses into contrary retardation) but the past couple of years have inflated his ego to such an extent that he's started to believe his own hype and now genuinely figures himself as an untouchable genius level intellect who will single handedly save the west. His reach far exceeds his grasp and it's beginning to show.

He really needs to drop off for a bit now, for his own sake. Take a fucking break, hang with his family, write a shit novel, literally anything that isn't this never-ending book tour where he goes round and round saying the same fucking things again and again, while his critics lump him with rotten fruit over and over.

I know this board hates the Kermit, a lot of the time with good reason, but I do genuinely think that despite his frequent retardation, he is doing the world a great service by providing young people with and alternative to both the self flagellation of intersectionalist culture and the mindless hedonism of neoliberal degeneracy. His permanent absence on the public stage would be sorely missed.

You can call me a brainlet now.