/lit/ - Literature

Does the internet promote or negate the existence of a sincere literary culture?

After finding /lit/ about a decade ago, I spent several years posting here and finding out a great deal about writers I would have otherwise probably not heard about. However, in that time my interest in writing and potentially taking part in any kind of literary culture has waned, to the point where I consider it impossible. Spending so much time online has really undermined my ability to approach writing seriously, in part due to the fact that so much of everyday life for more and more people takes place almost entirely online: relationships, careers, and so on.

What I yearn for at this point is total detachment from the internet, and to form a more localised literary community which does not publish or promote itself online. The idea of forming a small group and organising some kind of literary review in my region is something that appeals to me. For example, in the 1970s Breece Pancake attended writing school in Charlotesville, Virginia, and found there a decent-sized community of writers, supporting one another and promoting writing from that area of the country. The changing economic situations naturally makes pursuing a 'career' in writing so much more hazardous today, due to the relative lack of steady jobs, rising house prices, and so on. But the internet, as far as I can tell, has eroded this notion of a localised literary culture. It feels to me like the internet has drained real life, the outside world, lived experience, of much of its vigour and energy, to the point where one almost necessarily has to exist both digitally and physically in order to find any kind of community, and that it is increasingly the case that the digital / virtual world is becoming even more central at the expense of real life.

How do I avoid turning my Christian faith into watered down Platonism? It seems to me so much Christian theology is is just some iteration of Plato, but this seems wrong to me. It seems an act of idolatry from God. What is Christianity without Platonic corruption?

>>14766705
>Christianity is the weak man's religion.
lol