Discuss.
It’s better with the hedgehog photo
reading plato in public is performative
>>24672913NO IT ISN'T!! I SPECIFICALLY FUCKING REMOVED THAT STUPID FUCKING HEDGEHOG IMAGE YOU RETARD, DELETE THIS
Occasionally you meet people who have pure access to the Forms. I wouldn't let it get you down.
>>24672915>altering decade old /lit/ history for your personal tastesDie bitch
>>24672915That anon is right: it is better with.
>>24672917No nigger in the entire history of Mankind has ever had any such access. Thats how you know this never happened.
>>24672903Calling someone an intellectual is an insult, what the fuck does it mean anyway if not that's you are a meme
>>24672903> “if I were not Alexander I would be a nigger”
>>24672914Reading anything in public is performative unless it's something that nobody else would knowOtherwise it's all just for social validation
>>24672962I dot it because I want to be left alone. People keep trying to start conversations with me otherwise
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>>24672967Most people go on their phones to create the same impression lol
>>24672962I read in public parks otherwise I’d have no reason to go outside for days on end
>bassist's gf wants us to change the band name to Plato on the Subway
>>24672914That's why I always read books with a white paper jacket. So no one may now what I am reading. My library too, all books are hidden away under my bed.
>>24672982>he doesn't go on walks to cerebratengmi
>>24673071What is there to celebrate?
>>24672903I had a similar experience on the bus one morning. I was reading Beyond Good & Evil and some high school kid, as he was walking up the aisle, scoffed and asked "are you above the law?" then sat down on the seat behind me and started laughing with his friends
>>24672903Fucking niggers
>>24673122>mogged
>>24672903He's right. You read Plato to _become_ an intellectual: that's what he was implying anon.
>>24673965He is implying that your read Plato to_embrace_being a retard an justify using colons because you sentence does not quite work with a semicolon but you don't quite know why or if a colon actually does work is just technically correct or at least correct enough that autism will probably carry you through any argument the usage may cause.
>DiscussWhat, the low quality spam threads on /lit/?There's not much to say, except that this place is of significantly lower quality than even fucking /v/ just a few years ago.
>>24673986>an>you>isAnd, your, or.
>>24672903I wonder if the guy in that story didn't mean it to be insulting. Like, it could have been meant as encouragement. As in "You read Plato to become an intellectual".Consider this an excercise in "Death of the Author". Because the story is made up.
>>24674018I mean wasn't Plato's original intention in writing his works to educate others? That could have been what the black guy was referring to. I'd say there's a lot of sense in this interpretation.
>>24672914One time I visited my dad, while he was squatting in this abandoned house in thr hood, and he was reading a book about Plato.. and I was like "damn, Dad, you're reading philosophy??!" and he laughed and took the book cover off and it was a biography of Hitler. He said he was reading it in the doctor's waiting room and was scared they'd think he was a Nazi.
>>24673106nobody said celebrate
>>24674087tell your dad to put a Heidegger jacket onHe was a nazi too but it still covers you for normies.
>>24673965He was probably disappointed that this honkey did not get his reference to the start of Protagoras.
>>24674601He died of a methamphetamine overdose about 5 years ago. I guess that's fitting given his reading predilections.
>>24674018It just sounds like friendly sarcasm. The black gentleman was implying that OP was faking humility and that reading Plato does in fact make him an intellectual. He said it with a playful tone of "if you weren't an intellectual, you wouldn't be reading Plato," and OP being autistic interpreted it literally in the sense of "you're not an intellectual because you're reading Plato." Truth is stranger and funnier than fiction so if the story is fake then it is a good forgery.
>>24672903Plato himself would've stood up and flexed on the other guy.
>>24673039How did the bassist get a gf? Is he on keys or backup vocals on the side?
>>24672962>Reading anything in public is performative unless it's something that nobody else would knowI think the people reading in public make their intent very clear and it's easy to figure out what they're up to. Certain titles are definitely more suspicious than others though. The eyes are a big tell. >Are they reading their book aka focusing on it>Or are they constantly glancing around trying to make eye contact while making sure the front cover is easily visibleIt's pretty easy to spot the difference, most of the time the attention seekers and external validation people present themselves pretty similarly in public. They're pretty harmless, let them read or pretend to read or whatever and don't engage them if you don't want to.
>>24672962unless its on a phone/tablet.
>>24672962Reading something that nobody has heard of would also send social signals though
>>24672903>*walking home from work*>negro asks me if i'm a swimmer>i answer no>"that's why you're walking"i struggle to understand what the "own" is supposed to be here
>>24672903>That's why you read Plato>I thought that was why I eat Play-DohA little self-effacing to show you take it in good spirits and it'll take him a second to get the pun.
>>24677461>I struggle to understandProbably happens to you often
>>24672920can't make thread without a pic newfag.
>>24672903unintellectuals deserve to be mocked and ridiculednobody likes you retards
>>24678165no, not really
