/lit/ - Literature

>>19733838
>The megacorporations are creating socialism as we speak.

>>14504875
>This is how all animal life functions
Great to know that I, with zero knowledge or training in Biology, can give an accurate take on animal life through mere intense rumination.

>>13928517
never happened to me before.

>>13891323
there's no point in reading anything anything at all for any reason ever. all is vanity.

>>13848565
irish: naruto
germans: sasuke
french: rock lee

>>13097132
Should of used that one

>>12207369
>1984 by George Orwell. Such a perfect character arc and incredible ending. Also it gets scarier the more I think about the books world and the similarities with our world today.

My name is OP, and you plebs ought to know that my preferences are objective and universal. Anything is good only if I like it. You believe that both you like something and I dislike the same thing? That's objectively false kiddo for my preferences are universal.

>I prefer poetry to philosophy.
This opinion is false because both I prefer philosophy to poetry and my preferences are both universal and absolute.

It should also be pointed out that beliefs in my preferences are intrinsically motivating. Thus my preferences are the solution to all problems of objective morality for my subjective motivational set applies to all people including myself.

>I believe that I have my own subjective motivational set.
This is an illusion. It only appears that you have your own subjective motivational set because you do not understand my preferences. If you were to educate yourself, then you would be forced to believe in my objective preferences because my preferences are the only preferences with a positive truth value.

As OP I am basically a god (and totally not gay because of it.) I am literally an external reason for action you pathetic scum of the earth. Prostrate yourself before my superior taste and behold the rank order of my preferences.

>God tier
STEM
Analytic philosophy


>Patrician tier
Agriculture (indeed)
Economics
Finance
Crafts (e.g. metal working, pottery, sculpture, painting, cooking, music, ect.)

>Pleb tier
Psychology
Continental Philosophy
Political (((Science)))
>Dog shit
Post-modern philosophy
Theology (because I am their god)
'Pop'-science
Labor Unions
People who do not accept my preferences


Recall that you are simply wrong if you disagree with my preferences.

ITT: we discuss why my preferences are objectively true.

>he read all of Shakespeare with the original spellings

Recently started listening to Martyrmade. Absolute Kino!

Hey /lit/, I am a Physics student, and I read a lot, and of course, I am highly intelligent. However, a friend of mine, also intelligent, has been trying to convince me to become a bit egotistic. He has wagered that plebs are aplenty. I previously didn't believe him. Until I overheard a convo between two today...I doubt these people have ever read anything other than a magazine.

How do plebs live without reading?!

Please rate this really short fragmet of my novel! It's about a sad loner working as a security guard and his wacky adventures, A bit like a confederacy of nunces mixed with Welcome to NHK and some Kafka undertones. Have in mind that the original text isn't in english so this is just a crappy translation, so much inferior to the original:

And they would left me alone. I would go back to my former life, carefree, not having to deal with people. While I was sitting there physically, and watching over the mall, my mind escaped into a more pleasurable world. Then my Tulpa threw me off of this line of thinking. She was a japanese schoolgirl I made to resemble my waifu, and she had this habit of showing off at the worst possible moment. I talked to her in my mind voice:
"Hey, Tomoko-Chan. I know you're doing it because you like me so much, and I don't want to get mad or anything, but I've already told you to stop possesing my hand when it's not loving anon Monday. I can't watch over the mall with you petting me like that."

>>11484905
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I frequently stutter to find a simpler word than the one I was going to use so people don't think I'm like this.

>>11044569

Stop posting this dumb ass shit you fuckin retard

No, I read English translations of my native language (Swedish).

>>10974456
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Are you kidding me? These are not description of a prose, you halfwit plebs. People are always discussing about how beautiful prose is on this board and this is the best you can do? What the fuck does "poetic" mean? That it is in metric? That it has rhymes? A 16 years old would describe prose as "poetic". Grow a brain and become articulate when you have opinions. What does it mean that the prose of a novel is "literary"? It's a fucking novel.
What is "somewhat clever"? What the fuck does it mean? How do you build a sentence to make it sound clever? And what the fuck is "latin-american sounding" for god's sake? Are you surprised he sounds latin american considered that he writes in fucking spanish? Do you even listen to the sound of your own sentences when you write "a latin american novel sounds latin american"?

>>10974860

Now this guy at least tried using a couple of metaphors and talked about the prose. But it is a shame that almost nobody beside him described anything about Bolano's prose. What about how he articulates sentences? What about the structure of the paragraphs? What about the flow of the dialogues? You guys didn't even bother to underline whether sentences are long and articulated or short and to the point, which is high-school tier prose discussion. And how are the sentences structured, does he use subordinates or coordinates and why - what does that mean for the book, what is he trying to convey?

You have disappointed me to the utmost degree and are all a bunch of fucking pseuds. Hang your copy of Ulysses to a nail and go back playing videogames, because that's the only thing you can probably do.

>>10905793
>cinema

Anyone ever get that feeling after you finish a challenging book that you actually became smarter. Sometimes I will read something and can see my subconcious working out the material for months, randomly mixing and matching ideas, applying new concepts to everything I experience.
Admitted I could just be a naive brainlet, but have any books given you these sorts of feels?

>been reading around 75 books per year for the last 35 years of my life
>i've read all of:
>the 19th/20th century classics
>greek philosophy
>the complete works of Shakespeare
>modern day political/economic writings by everyone from Marx to Hitler
>nearly every screenplay from the imdb top 250
>and now i've literally ran out of books to read

Is this it? Have I ascended?

Just take this thread >>10743738
You got yourself Socrates arguing with self-made strawmen.

>>10735409
>how did the guy he was in prison with remember all this shit

>>10707886

What precisely was refuted of him? His main idea that the world is a simulation or a projection is regarded as highly possible by modern physicists.

Platonic mathemathicians are still there, arguing that numbers are not conventions but exists as real entities.

Same is true for universals: almost no serious philosopher today holds relativist views, and at best you have neokantians holding that forms are in the mind rather than outside. But almost everyone believes that a formal structure is necessary to either organize the universe or the experience we have of it, because self-organization is either very unlikely or it requires the deus ex-machina of something like "god's will" - which again is very difficult to explain ontologically.

Nobody who works in any relevant scientific field or academia (with the exception of literature departments maybe) holds that the world is ruled by randomness.

Modern science is inherently Platonic in that it establishes that a set of functions (what we call scientific laws) organize the disposition of things in the universe - which is akin to the way Plato believed matter was organized according to the Forms.

The only leap that has not been made yet to show that he was completely right on everything is to say that the final aim of the universe as an ordered manifestation is the Good - which is a pretty vital point - but still.

The only domain where Plato is not relevant is in pop culture, but you know, pop culture serves to create an easily-governed mass of slaves, therefore of course they would point you toward relativism: if there is no truth, your opinion is never relevant.

Meanwhile though, in the real world outside of marvel movies and political LARPers, the elites that are advancing our knowledge of the universe are doing it starting from Platonic premises.

I have no clear idea what a verb/adjective/noun is, nor how many of these terms there are (those are the only three I'm fully aware of) like wtf is "tense".
Also dunno why I need to know or learn what they are.