/lit/ - Literature

>>13616315
[lol]

>now

>>13616736
/thread

Would we still be reading Plato today without capitalism to keep him alive?

You're soaking in it

>>13616746
Democratization of philosophizing brought about the ruin of society

>>13616768
Society is better now than ever

>>13616798
Clearly not. It's gotten particularly bad in the last couple decades but it's been bad, sickly and unintelligible, for centuries.

>>13616798
>Being surrounded by synthetic food and mild comforts is enough to wipe away the feeling of sickness you get when watching the news
Pathetic

>>13616798
This grey mass you call society has no purpose.

>>13616887
Why not just... not watch the news? Are you utterly braindead?

Stefan Molyneux legitimately thinks that this is proto-Marxism.

>>13617423
Probably a larp, but it’s utterly horrifying knowing that this is how 70% of people really think

>>13616798

>>13616798
Physically, yes, mentally/spiritually, absolutely not.

>>13617423
>just shut off your brain bro
based

>>13616887
Define it

>>13616798
For who? Worker wages are stagnating and the price of food is rising quickly, but TV's are getting cheaper.
Stress and depression are at levels they have never been before and are increasing.

>>13618134
what an ass

>>13616887
>>13618080
>>13617737
He has a point though, who the fuck trusts TV news?

>>13617867
I really want to see a shoop of him with a rainbow wig and a clown nose. The guy is one of the patron saints of Clown World.

>>13616315
>Interpreting a message against an economic system in a political book written in a time that economy was understood as "art of earning money" (techne mistharnetike)
Aren't you the ideologically brainwashed ?

>>13616768
where's that democratization ? proliferation of pseuds who use excerpts of a book as fire in a argument more than self-evaluation and critical thinking ? that's not philosophy that's sophism.

>>13616798
Every bit of improvement made to society was be people who thought it was shit and needed to be improved. Believing it's fine suggests doing nothing, which is an excuse for our current problems to get worse

>>13616905
Ebola is an idiot, but correct that degenerate modern materialism is all essentially the same, be it communist "dialectical materialism" or capitalist materialism. You can blame the English and the French revolutionaries for enabling the money class to overthrow the (at least somewhat) timocratic nobility

>>13616315
>interpreting an allegory about moral and ethics as a sincere political work
And that goes for everyone in this thread.

>>13616746
Yes, I would.

>>13616885
You clearly should read one of the books by Hans Rosling

>>13616746
>muh capital
Yikes.

>>13616798
Agree.

Fuck incels and there contrarianism against capitalism.

>>13620209
>e-every one I dislike is incel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, tranny.

>>13616798
Haha! another one fooled by the spectacle.

>>13617939
>Physically, yes

I doubt it. we have longer and more painful lifes now.