>le savages are noble and beautiful >a white man is only a "white washed negro"Holy shit this is cringe, why exactly does /lit/ shill this woke garbage as the finest literature?
>>24968485because it's a beautifully written, richly symbolic tragedy about the inherent suffering of life, the cruelty of God, and the solitude of powerEven beyond this it is one of the finest philosophical books ever written. Metaphysics, epistemology, morality, theology, &c are all effortlessly interwoven by a man who has a far better understanding of them than you ever willThe fact that you're letting it get ruined for you by trivial political qualms only further proves Melville's argumentsAlso it would seem like you haven't even gotten to the point where the Pequod departs, so why are you already denouncing it?
>>24968530NTA but you sound extremely insufferable and pedantic, and it's because of people like you waddling your dick around in your shallow attempt at looking superior that prevents the masses from enjoying old classics, since now culture is associated with arrogance.
>le unknowability of life… of le truth… le meaninglessness… le struggle…le infinite chaos, le whiteness… containing nothing and everything… le god…Western literature has been going in circles for 2500+ years. Arguably all literature, and arguably longer than that.>You have only to rest in inaction and things will transform themselves. Smash your form and body, spit out hearing and eyesight, forget you are a thing among other things, and you may join in great unity with the deep and boundless. Undo the mind, slough off spirit, be blank and soulless, and the ten thousand things one by one will return to the root – return to the root and not know why. Dark and undifferentiated chaos – to the end of life none will depart from it. But if you try to know it, you have already departed from it. Do not ask what its name is, do not try to observe its form. Things will live naturally and of themselves.
