/lit/ - Literature

Unlike most books, I don't recall any point during reading where I was wishing we'd get back or skip forward to something more interesting. Consistently engaging. Recommended.

>>16140578
>and get this
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Are words dangerous? Can words be violent or oppressive?

There's nothing wrong with Harry Potter. It's a decent read for kids. Rowling claiming in 2016 that Hagrid was always supposed to be a black transgender in a wheelchair if you read it right doesn't retroactively make a book written in 2000 suddenly pozzed.

>>15154364
>even when they are satisfied, all he obtains is a state of painlessness, where nothing remains to him but abandonment to boredom. This is direct proof that existence has no real value in itself; for what is boredom but the feeling of the emptiness of life?
>Whenever we are not occupied in one of these ways, but cast upon existence itself, its vain and worthless nature is brought home to us; and this is what we mean by boredom
Why would anyone think that sitting around doing nothing is to be "cast upon existence itself?" That seems more like incomplete existence to me, not pure existence. The natural state of life is to strive, not to sit still, so having all your needs met does not result in a state of "painlessness" because pain itself is one of those needs. If you aren't striving toward something, your needs aren't actually being met and you aren't tuned into pure existence in the way that's being used to justify this whole idea. When all of their needs are met and they are experiencing the optimal amount of struggle in their lives, people are happy. I just don't see what sort of pessimistic conclusion could possibly be drawn here.