/lit/ - Literature

>>12052800

what? i DO recognize how difficult it is to achieve great things; that why it is HARD and FEW PEOPLE achieve it

but those FEW PEOPLE who do, often,, believe it or not, want to be around the other few people who are equally capable

i never said it wasnt hard--it is, and should be, and what you call "disconnect" is really your own: the inability to recognize that there are actually a LOT of people doing a LOT of very purposeful things, full of meaning, and those people tend to coagulate at the top specifically because so few can achieve it--THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT

what you are complaining about is simply the threshold of merit involved. like this poster, >>12052391, you seem to sublimate anything that is actually superior to you (intellectually, discipline-wise, etc.) to some kind of "disconnect"

again, there are idiots here at harvard: wealthy legacies, athletes, plenty of minorities that get in on the URM check, no question. but you'd be surprised at just the sheer number of interesting fuckers. one of my freshman roommates was the best chess player in the state of florida; another had helped form an incredibly influential gay acceptance campaign within the church structures of the midwest. so on down the line: i know one dude who is just an absolute machine with numbers, capable of calculations and just an orderliness of thought i find terrifying; on the other end of the spectrum, i know rimbaud and bataille-like figures, aesthetes who reject the cold, disenchanted and de-eroticized discourses of academia and expand their souls through the exploration of all sorts of alternative and sublime intoxications. the full spectrum, from robot to dancing star, are all represented in their dying glory--and it actually makes for a pretty interesting experience.

>>9337855

are you going to argue against wikipedia as well?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_ranks_and_ratings

jesus christ, man. nobody is this insecure and just fucking wrong about the world without being seriously deranged. do you have to wear water wings when you eat soup?

>>9337855
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>>9337522

QED