What's it all for, in the end. I read all these books, I try to write on my own, I dig into the past to understand the present better. But most people don't read. The modern world doesn't reward literacy. No one takes action. The rich get richer, the new books remain unread and disposable, the world keeps going as usual as the writer's words fall on deaf ears and blind eyes. I don't know if I'm just wasting my time or not. The chances of becoming a great, known author today are near nonexistent. And the wisdom you get from literature has no practical application in modern times either.
>>24116875Writing is almost completely outdated, similar to painting. It’s all been done before. There are modern ways to impress people with your creativity, like video games or YouTube videos
>>24116887This. Writing ist Kaput. Ubertube unt der Videogameziestreaming is the new man.
>>24116875Go play outside
>>24116875>>24116887>>24116894Chinese bots.
Genre fiction is where the future's headed. Similar to the early 1900s when people began pushing the novel itself to the limits and experimenting with its possibilities, people in the following decades will start doing the same thing with sci-fi, horror, fantasy, etc. Like Margaret Atwood or Stephen King, but better. Literary fiction is dead, nothing new will ever join the canon, but books won't die anytime soon, despite the dead zone we currently find ourselves in. A similar thing happened in music when people realized that good music doesn't have to be classical fartsy shit from Europe.
>>24116875Your own pleasure. Do you feel like there's anything else you wish you had spent the time on? As to you feeling everything has been done, so what? Old forms always eventually revive and become new again.
>>24116875Literature like all art exists to enhance your experience of life and the world. The wisdom a great piece of art teaches isn't something that can be explained in words or reached through reasoning. I think Aristotle was right when he said that the primary end of drama (but we can expand it to literature generally) is catharsis—emotional purification. Literature teaches you about life by letting you live the joys and tragedies of a thousand lives through proxy, to feel that happiness and pain and understand it. And if we follow Aristotle more, through doing so perfect our own emotions so when those rocky shoals of life come to visit us they come as old friends. What is meaningful in life is precisely our experience of it, so an art that can enhance that is valuable beyond measure. I can't accept that someone who is as familiar of literature as you has never felt this.
>>24117234Personal pleasure is a worthless measure. If that’s all there is in life I might as well just see a prostitute every weekend
>>24117196I fucking hate this faggot meme. If you’re a nihilist, your answer to the question of destruction is whimsical. Be that your own or other people’s, and what purpose does one serve if not to please god? Can there ever be a reason to living that doesn’t involve him in a way?
>>24117406>What is meaningful in life is precisely our experience of it, so an art that can enhance that is valuable beyond measure. I can't accept that someone who is as familiar of literature as you has never felt this.Because he isn't familiar with literature. OP is a dilettante and these feelings come from a fragile ego afraid of experience. "The world is shit anyway so why should I even bother". If everything smells like shit, then it is you who smells like shit.>>24116875>But most people don't read.I was surprised to learn of the phenomenon of "booktok" and "booktube". People read, people are interesting in the literary arts. Look at R.R. Martin and Sanderson (both crap I would never read but regardless).>No one takes action. You don't take action. This whole thread is you not taking action, because you are a coward.>The chances of becoming a great, known author today are near nonexistentThe chances of becoming a great known author are astronomically high compared to former times. First off, you have all the resources you could ask for thanks to the internet. Other books, images, videos, maps, articles. Everything and more than everything that you need to furnish your imagination. Second, you can publish your creation directly to the world, unlike in the past where you had to go through literary agents, editors, producers, etc.But what is more likely is that YOU are a mediocre soul with an inflated ego just because you browse /lit/.If this doesn't motivate you, nothing will. Good luck.
>>24116875Doesn't matter if most people don't read. Ideas change the world and they spread through the written word.
>>24119681Post-literacy is an advancement. Just like Books are inferior to digital media.
