/lit/ - Literature

>>17332403
I'm a senior (of age) at a nationally ranked school where I'm around a lot of people from the Cloud District, so to speak, so I can tell you a bit despite being a pleb. Few are the children of millionaires etc because those kids go to private schools, but the ones that aren't diversity admissions are heirs to lawyers, Ivy League professors, doctors, and that kind of class. I'm not sure if any of what I'm going to tell you is what you wanted because they aren't aristocrats, but seeing as most in this thread have been useless I feel obligated to give you some half-insight into how upper class people raise their offspring.
>>17332425 posted as soon as I finished that sentence and is basically correct. However, I have some first hand insights on the children's end of things.
The parents cultivate their children's talents and interests with a keenness that I didn't see when I was around fellow pleb beaners for my whole life prior to high school. By this I mean e.g. they place their child from a young age in extracurriculars such as swimming or team sports or martial arts, though I notice that the exceptional kids typically were musically trained. An example that gives more agency to the child in what they want to do that is very common is purchasing all the artistic supplies their daughter could want so she can practice her skills at art. I think the reason for this is to instill discipline and a sense of the value of incremental progress, with ancillary benefits such as socialization or promoting the literal mental development of the kid depending on the particular extracurricular. The parents will often plan their children's summers so they're not just degenerating inside on the computer or being totally idle. Summer camps are the most common species of that genus, and I was astounded when I first learned of it. This attention to their children's development also entails a careful, but sometimes oppressive, monitoring of their children's academic performance. Once high school comes around, this extends to a promotion of college, and the parents, seeking to present as more immediate the reward of academic prowess that would otherwise seem distant and irrelevant to their AP-overloaded scions, will fly their kids to a few choice campuses across the country to visit them. All of this, summed up, may be totally obvious to /lit/, but like OP it was all totally alien to me, so much so that I needed a year to overcome how much I hated my classmates for being more privileged than me. I was despondent that I was expected to compete with people who had been tended to like a bonsai from birth to be successful.

>>14546210
it would be incredibly immoral of you all to navigate to libgen (dot) is and download books for free
the evil site has pretty much any book or textbook you could ever want, how horrible!
it would be very bad, don't do that

>>14356545
well said and very based

>>14325965
The Jannie is immunized against all dangers: one may call xer a scoundrel, parasite, cuckold, slave labor, it all runs off xer like water off a raincoat. But call xer a Jannie and you will be astonished at how xe recoils, how injured xe is, how xe suddenly shrinks back: “I’ve been found out.”

>>14306285
me

D1: Liking cocks is gay
D2: Traps have cocks
A1: Traps like cocks.
P1: Liking traps is gay
Dem: By D2 traps have cocks, and by D1 liking cocks is gay. It follows that liking traps is gay.
q.e.d.
P2: Being a Trap is gay
Dem: By A1 traps like cocks, by D1 liking cocks is gay. It follows that being a trap is gay.
q.e.d.
P3: Traps are gay.
Dem: The phrase refers to either the traps themselves being gay, as in P2, or in the desire to be with a trap, as in P1. It follows then that under both assumptions: Traps are gay.
q.e.d.
Cor: Women are also gay

>>14259458
No
what constitutes you is a superstratum of organized information occurring on top of and emerging from the material.
Material is always a unique instance and is petrified in time at one particular moment, before being instantaneously destroyed in the next.
Saying you 'are' a 'physical body' does not make sense, you only can exist temporally, and in every moment the material changes to a completely unique configuration.
So at some infinitesimally small time 'you' can not be said to exist, it only make sense to consider consciousness in time. Since that also necessitates that your physical make up changes to accommodate that new time, then your physical makeup never truly can be identified as the conscious subject. That conscious subject has to exist as an emergent property of mind itself, separate from any particular instantiation in the material, and is instead a continuation of the material in time, while simultaneously being not the material itself.
So if that 'information' (or even 'soul' if you want to call it that) can be instantaneously transported to another physical place, it would be exactly the same as experiencing time normally.

Lets go through all of the possible scenarios here
>A person sees you reading, and doesn't care
this will be 90+% of the population. It clearly does not matter in this circumstance.
>A person sees you reading, and thinks less of you because of it.
Why would you care about someone's opinion who thinks reading is a bad thing.
>A person sees you reading, and feels guilty that they do not read
This might lead them to pick up a book, potentially improving their life.
>A person sees you reading, and is also interested in reading
You might just make a literary friend

Stop being a self-conscious faggot, and do what you want to do.

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>>13920247
uh huh
fuck off autismo

>>12727832
autism

>>12722820
f