/lit/ - Literature

Socrates invented philosophy as the search for the Good. Where does that leave the discipline when no-one any longer believes that the Good exists as a concept that can be deduced by pure thought?

If "nerd culture" ever had any authentic elements to it, they've been stripped away long ago. It's now a label for people, promoted by marketing teams as a means of selling commodities. That's why it's "so nerdy" to attend popular movies like the upcoming Star Wars and whatever superhero spinoff movies are around the corner. The "mainstreamification" of geek/nerd "culture" was honestly ripe for the picking. What better way to push product than to tell people they're special?

Pegg, I think, is right in his brief analysis, even if it is nothing new.

>>7462012
>inevitable progress
}:|

>>7462301
>metamodernism
lol

>Buying into the antiquated analytic/continental distinction.