/lit/ - Literature

>>11133077
Wow, you must be much more profound than plebbitors. I too am, and I hope other people in this thread will agree that we are simply smarter and more sophisticated. We should spend a few hours each going to plebbit and find stupid posts by them, post them here, and then tell each other how stupid they are compared to us.
Really proud not to be a plebbitor. This place is so different

>You should feel bad about the bad things your ancestors did
>You shouldn't feel good about the good things your ancestors did
There, I'm saving OP's garbage thread.

>>11133077
>Do they like 1984 so much because they haven't read anything else?
In a sense, yes. 1984 and BNW give yo clueless retards a framework through which they can pretend to be political philosophers and profound thinkerd. They're popular on /pol/ for the same reason.

>>11133087
Finally, someone who gets it.

>>11133094
I liked the book but I didn't get anything out of it.

>>11133087
Agreed desu. /lit/ is my last bastion of hope. I’m on autopilot with the normies all day, pretending to be a automaton. Then when I get home I rush on /lit/ to regain sanity.

>>11133091
damn, that's so deep

>>11133077

>>11133133
Enlightenment Now

>>11133077
Looks like you took a screenshot before closing the tab

>>11133121
This. We're simply a community of superior intellectuals compared to sexually active normies. It's good that we can have these threads to remind ourselves. It's ridiculous to think how little we are appreciated for our superiority in our day to day lives. To be honest, I don't get any validation except the few bits I get on here when I post screenshots from social media and wait for the affirmation to arrive from similarly alienated and insecure intellectual powerhouses.

>>11133077

>>11133077
most meaningful books

>>11133159
Had he put Gravity's Rainbow, Infinite Jest, Moby Dick, and Ulysses like the college sophomores on here, then they'd be really smart

>>11133173
It'd be a step in the right direction

>>11133170
>>11133159
Post moar! It's nice to see how much more intellectual we are

Here are my favorite books, give me a (You) if you think I'm smarter than these retarded normies:
The Bible
Hamlet
Divine Comedy
War and Peace
Paradise Lost

These are all books that women and normies will never understand as good as me

>>11133145
>>11133121
huh, real subtle

>>11133182
I like one of those books

>>11133077
I love how 1984 is the SECOND thread on on lit.

>>11133185
Of course you do, they’re all actually pretty good books, but it’s absurd when someone considers themselves higher than others due to their causal reading of those (very popular books).

Basically, he’s saying it’s dumb to mock the Redditor for having bland taste in books when the poster likely has equivalently plebeian taste

>>11133198
>SEE
not the first

There is literally nothing wrong with 1984. In fact, it's much better than the meme books by postmodern hacks like Gass or Barth who show off for spergs how autistic they are

>>11133202
I'm just trying to get why people like 1984 so much. I don't think the book is bad or bad taste BUT it doesn't beat my top 50.

>>11133141
sounds fucking gay

>>11133077
Reddit's upvote system works well for the site as a content aggregator, as it was designed to do. If a lot of news articles are posted, people will vote the most relevant and interesting to the top.
Needless to say, reddit is hardly used this way.
Instead, reddit is used as a forum, but unlike a true forum retains this voting system and nonlinear structure, meaning only posts appealing to the lowest common denominator, the widest possible base, can get any real traction. Traditional forums or chans push a thread to the top whenever a post is made, it's very democratic, any thread could be the first you see. Reddit is not so, it's an oligarchy, the highest voted (=most banal) posts will always be at the top. Worst of all, this is self-perpetuating, as posters make posts in imitation what's on top, and the hivemind takes over. With such a system wide-ranging, thoughtful discussion was an a priori impossibility.
Everyone on this site should understand all of this intuitively, but it bears repeating.

>>11133221
You need at least a 140 lq to appreciate it in its true depths

>>11133182
You pseud! To Kill a Mockingbird and Lord of the Flies aren't on your list!

>>11133087
I concur, fellow /lit/izen.

>>11133202
How do I stop unconsciously/consciously thinking I'm better than others because I read a load of classics

>leg it /lit/
>it's a bunch of twenty-somethings talking about fashion, book titles and name dropping the most common authors while posting ultra-common pepes
>stay here anyway

braap

>>11133087
Truly

>>11133077
>head r/books
>first thing I see is a 1984 thread
>close the tab
You did everything right up until this moment, but why did you continue with:
>head /lit/
>post shit thread about my stupid experience

>>11133141
ass

I feel like 1984 meshes really well with Reddit's 'cynicism is the ultimate form of thought' vibe. It's also very well known and easy to read and it's somewhat easy to draw parallels to the modern world from it, so if you're a 20 something CS:Go player looking get into books and, like, expand your mind man it's really low hanging fruit.

>>11134758
>so if you're a 20 something CS:Go player looking get into books and, like, expand your mind man it's really low hanging fruit.
Just like Blood Meridian due to the guns/premise alone

>>11133077
People love those Big Brother-is-bad-news type of books because those kinds of people are ignorant.
>those people typically don't have leadership or entrepreneurship or top-level management experience
>they aren't aware politics and social psychology are the basis for everything humanity does
>they don't comprehend what it actually takes to have that much power/influence over other people and using it responsibly in a way that helps most of the people that support the system
>they can't seem to comprehend that there aren't enough resources (personnel or materials) to actually watch people so extensively... even shit like social media and PRISM take massive shortcuts through AI and algorithms
>they don't think of governing bodies as composed of humans, they think of the spoopy oppressors as being a single unit... in reality, even the acronym agencies have been caught fucking around, like the group of long-termers who got in shit for teaching newbs to spy on, watch, and track hot chicks for nudes and laugh at people who fuck up
>those people aren't matured/grown/developed/enlightened enough to realize they're only afraid of others having access to their personal/inner workings because they themselves know they're immoral, unethical, or doing/thinking/saying things they think they'll get in trouble for.... this is the same reason children learn to lie, they're at first afraid adults know what they're thinking and so they out themselves, but they learn their experience is individual/separate and lie so they don't get in trouble; same thing happened when people thought witches and empaths could read their minds (although in those cases, the people banded together and tried to exterminate them out of fear)

>>11133087
Idk about plebbit anon, or why you're so insecure in your opinions you need to hide behind sarcasm and cynicism, but I prefer to read, study, and analyze a massive variety of works rather than stick to only one mode of thought or work.
>If it's just a case of favourites, whatever, people can like whatever they like
>If it's a case of thinking it speaks to reality, and that "the goobernment" is a singular entity that will catch them doing the bad things, they're ignorant and not developing themselves properly

>>11133091
>TL;DR Canada

>>11133173
>real SMRT /lit/
We shill those books because we find them worth figuring out, not because we think we're so much more amazing than others. At least, that's everyone I know IRL who frequents this board. At best, the closest we get to being dicks about intellectualism is the equivalent in "patrician taste" to the leviosaaa parodies of harry potter. It's a shitty memetic joke.

>>11134758
>>11134807
Same with Yuval Harari and Jared Diamond's works. They're worth reading for the different perspective, not so much for the information (a very specific narrative of human history that's been shilled by certain peoples/cultures/groups which benefit from people believing it's the only "true" interpretation of history/humanity).
>low hanging fruit, easy access
>like the Blinkist app, nobody asks what narrative or perspective they're consuming en masse.... people flock to it because a couple famous people say it's a'ight