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How does my dear friend /lit/ cope with the horrific prospect that the majority of the population does not engage in the finer art that is literature?
It is such a shame, alas I say, that so many common folk are preoccupied with money, social status and consumption of lesser phenomena. While they spend their ordinary lives doing such things, I spend my time reading the classics, as well as mastering rhetoric, logic, reason and rational thinking.
Alas, while they believe in futile ideologies, religions and other fairy tales, I am reading philosophy, the sciences and high art. Yes, you got that right, by all means I am a skeptical atheist.
You might say, correctly, that I am a humanist, and you are not mistaken for I am. At times I do secretely think that perhaps the plebians should not be educated and that, dare I say, religion should subdue the masses.
That said, with populism at the backdoor of my beloved Europe I fear that democracy is failing and that Plato was right.
Does /lit/ understand this feeling? Of being alone in your pursuit of the higher gifts in life but surrounded by people who could not care less? Sometimes I weep, and in my anger I sometimes set aside my book, while I take the time to calm again and read on.
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>being a teenage pseud in current year
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you are me
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>>9213648
literally me
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>>9213648
I care a whole lot about; I guarantee you that. I lay awake at night worrying, what ever shall I do about it
Get fucked Carebear. You and the rest of the population can suck a dick
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This is not as good an imitation of an adolescent, insecure reader as you think it is
Literature has to create its own importance, if it can't, it's no longer of worth
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>>9213648
Pretty much me, only that being surrounded by people I can only have a superficial small talk with diminishes my motivation to read or do anything and I just waste hours laying in bed doing nothing.
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>>9213648
expand your horizons you moron.
didn't socrates or some other greek fucker say that it's stupid to neglect other aspects of life just because it's not the thing you want to be great at.
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why do you give a fuck about what other people do if it ultimately does not affect you in any significant capacity?
cringe btw
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>>9213648
Same shit threads on every board, just a diferent disguise.
Why is /b/ about books so shit?
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>>9213791
This.
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>>9213771
Ah, so it is, I am alone but not fully alone in my tragedy.
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>>9213789
Please civil discourse, there is no need for such foul language, not if I have a say.
>>9213791
I am unsure what you mean. I usually go on /his/ and /sci/, only for those special moments I go on /lit/. Such as now as my soul is hurting at this very moment.
Sometimes life is too much for one man to carry.
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This is Capitalism's faults.
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Broader culture ruins everything, why would I want it to ruin my literature too? Am I the only one who gets the captcha wrong all the time?
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