/lit/ - Literature

if anyone replies to your blatant bait thread they're retarded please no one reply sage

>>14245256
ok, then go shitpost there

>>14245259
Look at this interesting thread
https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/e1gs2c/small_bookstores_are_booming_after_nearly_being/

full of insightful comments from respectable adults
756 comments, its a thriving community at the forefront of intellectual culture

I guess its superior if you like 35 year old YA readers constantly justifying their literature choices

and r/philosophy is lightyears ahead of the psuedo philosophy found here

I know you hipsters think its cool to hate on reddit, but its plainly superior not like this toxic cesspool

Like the title says, I finished Brave New World and feel so broken, there are moments where I feel as if I want to cry. Huxley did such an amazing job in describing his dystopian future, I believe the characters were very interesting and each had good and bad qualities to them. I understand the ending of the book places Lenina’s life up to interpretation. I like to believe she still lives. I know there must be many parts i don’t understand, but this book is just so wonderfully written. I recommend everybody reads the book! I was assigned this for a project, but I ended up falling in love. Aligning this to philosophy, I feel many of Mustapha Monds explanations to this Brave New World lie in historicism. Morals, truth, religion, etc... all lie in the current time period, they will never be the same. However, the one difference seems to be that Mond wants to prevent this society from advancing. I want to leave this open for discussion. I would like to hear how everybody else feels about the novel. Please don’t hesitate to respond.

>>14245256
This place is a shithole.
But it's the shithole I know.

>>14245332
do you think it could be negatively affecting you or hampering you in any way?

>>14245256
Even bookscirclejerk is just /lit/ but somehow with even more psueds and retards. Hell at least most people on lit can actually read

>>14245348
Once you learn to filter out the incel and b8 shit, there are still some good recommendations here.
Though they have gotten scarcer.

>>14245328
>psuedo

>>14245256
For me, it’s /r/literature

>>14245256
sounds problematic to me, let's downvote it

>>14245329
Nobody here will ever respond to a novel in such a sincere and open way. They will respond in the way they think makes them sound more intelligent rather than any actual engagement

>>14245328
I wonder if this is true.

>>14245741
>sincere

That's not sincere. Its melodramatic.

>>14245741
If that string of cliches and non-thoughts is sincere and engaged, I wish to be the most deceitful and distant person in the universe.

>>14245256
>>14245328
>>14245472
These are all bad to varying degrees but r/askphilosophy is miles ahead any 4chan board.

>>14245357
r/bookscirclejerk and r/badphilosophy are cringe as fuck since they try to be like this place but are full of inhibited oversocialized idpol retards. The latter sub is particularly obnoxious with its juvenile "herp derp drinking alcohol is funny" schtick.

>>14245328
>this toxic cesspool

>>14246375
>>14247063
When was the last time someone on this board posted at such length about a book they liked?

>>14245256
Go back LMAO

>>14245284
Literally no one in that thread is discussing literature. They're just discussing the economics of small retail outlets. You have chosen the worst possible thread to illustrate your "point".

I just looked and their top thread is about 1984, I thought that was a meme.

I like posting on /lit/ because people here are so stupid and young that I feel smart.

>>14247092
>r/askphilosophy
it's just woke twitter but on reddit

>>14245329
meanwhile the average /lit/ poster is like
>brave new world? a dystopia? cringe. people are sheep who need to be controlled. besides you aren't any less "free" in such a society anyway, since freedom is a gay meme and a spook. it doesn't even exist. how bluepilled do you have to be to think BNW is a """dystopia?""" gb2reddit tranny

>>14245741
The mistake you are making is thinking that the puerile emotions of idiots have any value.

>>14248423
Kek

Not surprised /lit/ is one of the more redditor infested boards

>>14248203
Length doesn’t constitute quality or depth.

>>14248580
Makes a post of quality and depth about the last book you read and we will compare and contrast. Show us how it's done

>>14245256
Unfortunately, friend, Reddit is where the many brainlets congregate to quell their identity dysphoria. Here, in /lit/, the last great scholars of our time come to mingle with other great thinkers and pass knowledge to and from one another, all across the great webway. /lit/ is the paradigm of free discourse, where one can come and partake in our milk and honey, free of the stigmas of society and their barriers around debate.

Individuals from many walks of life will pilgrimage here looking for enlightenment, comraderie, and the great thrill of philosophical debate, which us scholars provide and provide abundantly. Even lowly and odd redditfag will stumble across our humble community—sometimes looking for enlightenment, but oftentimes, only look to act like fools. Us /lit/ophosers will outstretch our hands to the feeble-minded, but very few accept our wisdom. Woe to those who come here to mock us! They are not yet of the understanding to know the error of their ways! Woe to them!

>>14248665
this but ENTIRELY unironically

>>14248665
I like the structure of chan imageboards, its visual medium; I despise a lot of the culture, ie. the racist /pol/ and immature /b/ mentality and misanthropic incel influence, drags everything down to the lowest common denominator

Free speech is great to a degree, but given free reign it devolves into toxic polemics and gives undue voice to the lowbrow vulgar

>>14248665
>Here, in /lit/, the last great scholars of our time come to mingle with other great thinkers and pass knowledge to and from one another, all across the great webway. /lit/ is the paradigm of free discourse, where one can come and partake in our milk and honey, free of the stigmas of society and their barriers around debate.
>kys, nigger, kek, faggot, based, cringepilled, lolwat, jew, negroid

>>14245308
hahaha is that really true? someone should really pull a jonestown or something haha

>>14248793
see
>>14248700

>>14245256
Reddit is just the mass herd streamlining thoughtcontrol of internet culture. the Chans have always been about anonymous freedom and independence, whereas Reddit is tightly controlled and relies on upvotes and herdism and virtue signaling via usernames. It's just another broken facet of the declining contemporary times.

>>14248480
This but unironically

r/philosophy
>Read/listen/watch the posted content, understand and identify the philosophical arguments given, and respond to these substantively. If you have unrelated thoughts or don't wish to read the content, please post your own thread or simply refrain from commenting. Comments which are clearly not in direct response to the posted content may be removed.

>This subreddit is not in the business of one-liners, tangential anecdotes, or dank memes.


Is this why reddit is superior?

>>14249093
One guenonpost annihilates this whole sub with little effort.

>>14245259
Newfag haha