/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15873369]

What did /lit/ think of Pewdiepie analysis of Plato's republic ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPnTTA8BC8A

[Anonymous No.15873384]

>>15873369
>Pewdiepie
>reads Plato
Cringe square

[Anonymous No.15873388]

I don't know I don't watch pewdiepie and don't intend to.

[Anonymous No.15873391]

>>15873369
bordering on self awareness. maybe already crossed that threshhold, but kept it off camera due to optic.

[Anonymous No.15873398]

>>15873391
>self awareness.
how ?

[Anonymous No.15873405]

>>15873369
Not watching but I hope he mentions that denocracy is a sham.

[Anonymous No.15873424]

Not watching like the other anons already said, but I can find no downsides of people reading Plato.

[Anonymous No.15873437]

>>15873369
Who's that passive homosexual on the right side?

[Anonymous No.15873442]

>>15873437
PewDiePie

[Anonymous No.15873476]

>>15873369
>only discussed the politics and said the metaphysical questions went over his head
>yeah i sorta understand the theory of the cave

[Anonymous No.15873497]

>>15873369
I think Pewdiepie is an embarrassing human that somehow managed to make /lit/ even worse than it already was by sending his uneducated virgin fans here en masse.

[Anonymous No.15873516]

>>15873369
Trying too hard and not enough and the same time.

[Anonymous No.15873685]

>>15873369
we should encourage people like him to put this shit on youtube for his massive audience, how could anyone be anything but glad that he makes videos about this stuff? Cringe? Trying too hard? What do you fucking people want?

[Anonymous No.15873703]

>>15873685
There is no "we." I don't care if some Swedish e-celeb loser reads Plato or not.

[Anonymous No.15874119]

>>15873369
>c-check out this youtuber!
newfag

[Anonymous No.15874664]

>>15873369
It was bad, it came off like an essay more than an honest exploration of the ideas in the book. Also stop posting cringe

[Anonymous No.15874669]

>>15873369
>didnt even read the 2nd century AD gnostic edition of Republic
yikes

[Anonymous No.15874678]

>>15873369
>translations
that's a yokes from me

[Anonymous No.15874882]

>>15873369
Why does he talk like that? Does he have ADHD or something? Or is that just how zoomers act nowadays? Disturbing.

[Anonymous No.15874950]

>>15873703
I'm referring to the people who have are saying 'cringe', 'trying to hard', ect. Not people who are indifferent.

[Anonymous No.15875006]

>>15873369
I haven't read Republic but I hope this guy gets more kids into actual literature.

[Anonymous No.15875067]

>>15874882
Zoomers are incapable of stringing together multiple coherent sentences. They are brain damaged from the tech that consumes their childhood.

[Anonymous No.15875084]

>>15873369
unironically the best force for literature in the west today. He is getting millions and millions of kids to at least acknowledge these topics exist. And he browses here so you can help influence the world vicariously too.

[Anonymous No.15875102]

Call me when he does a video on Marx

[Anonymous No.15875105]

>>15873369
start with the greeks

[Anonymous No.15875113]

>>15873516
Just like /lit/

[Anonymous No.15875169]

>>15873369
who cares about that faggot, fuck off op

[Anonymous No.15875378]

>>15875067
He’s 30 years old lol

[Anonymous No.15875553]

>>15873685
Because these faggots want to think they have an acquired taste, and that makes them special. If philosophy became mainstream it would objectively be a good thing, but they can't handle the fact that they'd be the same as some plebian that started reading because of a YouTube video.

[Anonymous No.15875655]

>>15875553
Yeah, good point. It's that they deny that they are just like everyone else. Honestly, there's nothing wrong with admitting you are average. The ego attachment we get from acquiring knowledge is what causes pain.

[Anonymous No.15877076]

>>15873685
It's a tragedy that the masses know how to read

[Anonymous No.15877116]

>>15877076
Hmm lol, yeah I could defend that position.

[Anonymous No.15877118]

how do you review plato in 2020
what hasn’t been said???

[Anonymous No.15877135]

>>15873497
Honestly if it gets 1% of his zoomer fanbase interested in reading literature and philosophy, it's a worthy trade off

[Anonymous No.15877137]

>>15877118
His argument in Crito is nonsense when you take into account the fact that Socrates directly disobeyed the 30 Tyrants earlier in his life.

[Anonymous No.15877158]

>>15873685
surprisingly most people on this thread are either neutral or think it's good that he is getting into literature.

[Anonymous No.15877179]

>>15877135
>>15873497
P.s. I'd like to see the sort of shit you were reading and cringe opinions you had before you were 20. We all gotta start somewhere

[Anonymous No.15877180]

Can't wait for him to turn to stoicism and stop being a youtube e-celeb because he will realize he is not truly living his life.

[Anonymous No.15877254]

>>15877180
Stoics would be the only thing that could shock him out of his current direction, let's hope he properly reads Seneca of Aurelius

[Anonymous No.15877811]

>>15873685
There's a sense of elitism that comes with the hobby of reading. The board does recieve higher levels of shit posts as a result, but the resentment is predominantly born of gatekeeping.

[Anonymous No.15877868]

>>15873685
Presumably because, although he's reading, his interpretation and the few base vagaries he's managed to discern are wholly unbefitting to the significance of the work he's read
Not all reading is equal, simply reading a book from front to cover isn't the purpose - especially if you haven't understood the work in its entirety. The reason most people are against this kind of populism in reading is that it will distort their view of the others as to what reading is right from the "get-go", going to get a whole generation of pseuds who are going to go through all the great works like a shopping list, only to end up as unthinking as they were before they read their first word; only now having several arbitrary works of literature to cite to verify their 'sophistication'

Something like that

[Anonymous No.15877917]

>>15877868
Then again, what do you really expect from a gaming youtuber who has branched out into classical literature and philosophy, but think the dislike is based more on the casual nature of his reading more than anything else

[Anonymous No.15878366]

>>15873398
The Cave.

[Anonymous No.15878378]

Great news if he can get some new people into the stuff. The world needs more readers. That being said its also gonna bring a wave of pretentious posers around, but not big enough of a consequence to make the former bad.

[Anonymous No.15878450]

>>15877137
But the Thirty Tyrants were a foreign-imposed oligarchy, while the demos that condemned him to death was on no foreign influence.

[Anonymous No.15879393]

>>15877076
That includes you, anon

[Anonymous No.15879469]

>>15873369
I'm 5 mins in and it's world's better than most first takes on The Republic, he's recognised that there is nuance and that the form is important. If everyone who read Plato and posted here were as thoughtful as this it would be great.

I'm expecting something to annoy me eventually but I am pleasantly surprised.

[Anonymous No.15879717]

>>15877180
>>15877254
Stoics are cucks, Marcus Aurelius is overrated and will never compare to actual chad emperors.

[Anonymous No.15879730]

>>15877158
yes, I realize now I was being a little reactionary.

[Anonymous No.15879787]

>>15873369
I just checked his yt channel after long time and what is that beard and that dan bilzerian look?? He should go back to 2018 beard/facial hair style, that was much better.

[Anonymous No.15879835]

>>15879717
>your brain on 4chan