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Is anyone else exasperated at the pseudo intellectuals telling you to read tonnes of boring as fuck"classic" books and claiming you enjoyed them and found "profound" insights in them? Reading has turned in to another form of work.
lit is filled with people who take literary theory seriously and who unironically think that degrees and MFAs are necessary to be writers.
It's obvious at this point that the cream of the intellectual crop do not spend their time on books
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>>9690677
this would've been a better bait post if you didn't ham it up too much.
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>>9690677
I agreed with you until you reached your conclusion, which is unrelated to your other claims. The cream of the intellectual crop necessarily spend their time on books.
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>>9690677
I only dislike the ones so pretentious that they read without crystalizing it and treat it as a status requirement, looking at you /pol/.
The ones that recommend classics are the same as the people that recommend their favourite movies, i dont have a problem with that.
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>>9690677
brainlet
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>>9690677
A lot of the "classics" might have been deep and profound when they were written, but are boring and dull today, and referenced in every pop culture context possible.
You've already seen a "best of" brief of every classic in the popular media you consumed growing up. Unless you want to study the work further, you don't need to read the whole thing, you've seen the best parts.
Read interesting and new things, leave the classics to the autists.
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>>9690677
You will never be cool doing anything well. You have to walk alone and forget your image, focus on the results. Read what you need.
Look at the "last psychiatrist" blog, I have read the whole thing recently, it will be your friend.
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>>9691338
OP here, I've read some of that. Which article are you specifically referring to?
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