/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10709348]

Why do you read /lit/?

[Anonymous No.10709349]

Not for any noble goal. I just like it.

[Anonymous No.10709355]

>>10709348
I look hot on the train. There's no actual text in the hardcover classics I read. It's usually snippets of some retro Playboy I ordered. But, I do get the gander of some qt's whilst I am half-mast from the lewds.

[Anonymous No.10709356]

>>10709348
it's unironically the best board
little tolerance for /pol/, no porn, no flags, good memes, fun discussion with pseuds and autists alike

[Anonymous No.10709358]

>>10709348
I want to understand where this fucked up ride is going and my place on it. Fiction I just read for fun desu unless it relates to my grad studies (Russian/Soviet history)

[Anonymous No.10709367]

>>10709356
I'm pretty sure he meant "Why do you read, /lit/?" (note the comma)

I could be wrong though

[Anonymous No.10709373]

>>10709356
>little tolerance for /pol/
but full of unironic communists
>good memes
they can be good but not enough for my taste, probably because /lit/ is a text heavy and slow moving board.

[Anonymous No.10709374]

>>10709358
>my grad studies (Russian/Soviet history)
have fun being poor XD *becomes a mathematicians* *collects my $200k starting*

[Anonymous No.10709383]

>>10709373
>unironic communists
As opposed to ironic ones like Zizek or something?

[Anonymous No.10709389]

>>10709373
>but full of unironic communists
If you don't think capitalism isn't fundamentally flawed, you're deluding yourself.

>probably because /lit/ is a text heavy and slow moving board.
Jesus, that's sad. Is this what happens to capitalists? Always needing to be stimulated? Maybe you could try >>>/pol/. It may be more to your tastes.

[Anonymous No.10709392]

>>10709348
it makes me feel smart and special. everyone eventually figures out that philosophy is worthless and a dead end.

[Anonymous No.10709397]

>>10709373
>full of unironic communists
maybe a few years ago senpai, I can't remember the last time we had a real thread discussing marxism

[Anonymous No.10709398]

>>10709374
sick burn dude. That would be true maybe if I was in some shitty state school but I'm not and most of the people in my (small) dept get job placements with decent salaries so, also doesn't hurt to be fluent in a language of the country that's supposedly trying to hax our democracy

[Anonymous No.10709404]

>>10709374
>mathematicians
>making money

[Anonymous No.10709407]

>>10709389
>If you don't think capitalism isn't fundamentally flawed, you're deluding yourself.
when did I say that? nice strawman faggot. /lit/ is a post left reactionary board. Don't let the door hit you on the way out back to lebbit.
>>10709397
I specifically didn't say Marxism for this reason, they're not the same thing. I enjoy Marx and acknowledge his influence is indispensable.

[Anonymous No.10709411]

>>10709398
>>10709358
Thoughts on pic related? I have to read it for a course on 1917 Revolution. Also, what do you think of Trotsky's history?

[Anonymous No.10709415]

>>10709348
Because I fear the pull of history and I believe that knowledge can help me break free of it.

Because when I don't read I want to kill myself.

Because TV irritates me and makes me feel like I'm living in the Brave New World, which is why my taste is deliberately eclectic--I fear that by conforming my ability to think clearly will be compromised.

[Anonymous No.10709416]

>>10709373
there are always anti-capitalists around but that's good desu, as long as they aren't tankies it's good to have diversity of opinion across the spectrum
if this place was like /his/ with it's overabundance of reactionaries and neocons it wouldn't be as fun

[Anonymous No.10709419]

>>10709415
>Because I fear the pull of history and I believe that knowledge can help me break free of it
Have you read The Tunnel?

[Anonymous No.10709438]

>>10709411
Solid survey, it gets some hate but I'm a fan. I mostly focus on cultural/art history so I'm not the most qualified person to speak about that topic, but if you want a more fleshed out survey on the Revolution you can't go wrong with Figes (despite the fact that he sperged out online writing bad reviews of other scholars on Amazon under a pseudonym, pretty sad and funny at the same time). If you want some recs for cultural history of the revolutionary/Stalinist period (and how they're closely interrelated despite western misconceptions fueled by Trotskyist memers) I would check out Clark's The Soviet Novel: History as Ritual (pretty essential) and Groys' Total Art of Stalinism (not essential but entertaining and provocative af). Not a fan of Trotsky because he attempts to whitewash the Leninist project and pretend like it would have had a utopian outcome if he had only led the way.

[Anonymous No.10709441]

>>10709416
anti capitalist =/= communist
holy shit you lot are dense

[Anonymous No.10709442]

>>10709416
>it's good to have diversity of opinion across the spectrum
Not really. Everyone ought to have the same opinions on what's good for humanity so that we all can effectively cooperate for a greater cause.

[Anonymous No.10709459]

>>10709442
>Everyone ought to have the same opinions on what's good for humanity so that we all can effectively cooperate for a greater cause.
I too reject moral relativism and think we ought maintain some universal ethics. Diversity of opinions is a different matter however, a diversity of thought is very important.

[Anonymous No.10709462]

>>10709442
How can you know what the greater cause is if no one contests your views?
It means you become unable to reaffirm your ideas and you'll never be certain if they're the right ones. Having someone to argue against you is always a good thing.

[Anonymous No.10709495]

>>10709441
no you

>>10709442
you're right, this mongolian bask weaving forum is definitely the place for humanitarian cooperation

[Anonymous No.10709496]

>>10709419
No, why

[Anonymous No.10709548]

books are the only place where my mind feels alive.

[Anonymous No.10709582]

In the town where I have to work there is nothing else to do besides getting drunk. I go to the city on weekends.

[Anonymous No.10709584]

I am only myself when immersed in a book. Everything about life terrifies and disturbs and upsets me constantly. But when I read I feel I understand myself and the world.

[Anonymous No.10709589]

>>10709548
my mind feels most alive when I have 3+ windows with 40 4chan tabs open, constantly checking between them
if I read for too long without browsing here I end up with a narrow view of the world and I start to take things too literally

[Anonymous No.10709610]

>>10709589
>my mind feels most alive when I have 3+ windows with 40 4chan tabs open, constantly checking between them
h-heh.....

[Anonymous No.10709622]

I want to be the next Napolean

[Anonymous No.10709636]

To be the man I wanted my father to be.

[Anonymous No.10709688]

Enjoyment.
>>10709383
kek. https://archive.is/Nptlx

[Anonymous No.10709699]

>>10709688
lmao he's the kid who didn't read the book but had a report due so he googled some obscure blog in the hope the teacher wouldn't notice

[Anonymous No.10709703]

>>10709442
we haven't figured out what the correct view is anon, clearly its not democratic capitalism, clearly its not communism, clearly its not fascism, so we still require a diverse group of people on this board to delineate what it is we all need to understand

[Anonymous No.10709709]

>>10709348
Makes me look smart

[Anonymous No.10709713]

>>10709348
My dick is small and I have to compensate

[Anonymous No.10709783]

>>10709703
>clearly its not communism
>implying

[Anonymous No.10709807]

>>10709348
to be superior to the people in my past and immediate surroundings, and as a larger abstraction, to normies

t. Nietzsche's resentful man

[Anonymous No.10709819]

For big brain gains

[Anonymous No.10709825]

>>10709783
not that guy but
>heavily implied

[Anonymous No.10709827]

>>10709636
Me too Anon.

[Anonymous No.10709828]

>>10709807
Came here to post this

[Anonymous No.10709841]

>>10709348
Why not?

[Anonymous No.10709873]

>>10709348
it is the only distraction I allow myself. I fool myself into believing I gain anything from it

[Anonymous No.10709883]

>>10709389
Why do you fags always assume /pol/ is pro capitalist?

[Anonymous No.10709887]

>>10709883
All the snek flags. And those who are "nat soc" are LARPing idiots. Hitlerian fascism is pro-capitalist, and I don't see many Strasserists from /pol/.

[Anonymous No.10709889]

>>10709348
1: to digest the thoughts of others
2: to compare their mastery of language with my own

honestly, these two points are in practice, one reason

[Anonymous No.10709975]

>>10709887
>adjectivizing Hitler
He is not worthy.

[Anonymous No.10710085]

>>10709496
Cause it’s like exactly about what you’re interested in

[Anonymous No.10710091]

>>10710085
Are we talking the Gass or Sabato one?

[Anonymous No.10710099]

>>10710091
Gass

[Anonymous No.10711639]

>>10709348
I don't know honestly. Partly to overcome the existential ennui and become, partly because I'm searching for that missing piece of my life. And I would have to be grossly dishonest if I didn't admit I started doing it to "become smarter". You know where these 3 overlap.

[Anonymous No.10711663]

I'm a discerning gentleman, a connosuier of the greatest and highest

[Anonymous No.10712418]

i think its good for me, i see it as a productive way to spend my time since i'm not creative in the slightest

[Anonymous No.10712438]

I want to be smart enough to make a difference in the world