/lit/ - Literature

Ask yourself what you want with Philosophy? Academic philosophy appears to me as just as much of a clusterfuck as all other academia. You will hardly make a breakthrough in Philosophy either, unless you focus on something really, really, really excrutiatingly specific.

>>8475906
You're not accounting for the superficial nature of people. We don't want just what is necessary. We want excess and aesthetics for lack of a better word, "bling".

A Prius does the job, but you'd rather have a sports car take you from A to B, nevermind the superfluousness of it.

>>8267150
You never win.

>>8190149
I know, if they're not scrawny old white men, how can they relate with the greats from the past?

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>>8071041
"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect".

I'm pretty content with my progress so far.