Thesis: Literature is best when it edifies and uplifts the spirits. Who doesn't feel inspired by Moby Dick or William Blake? The psyop of literature communities is convincing members that depressing atheistic nihilistic melancholic doorstoppers are something you should work through because of "advanced prose" or "symbolism."This is a recent trend coinciding with rising angst in the tryhard meaninglessness lovers who follow in the Enlightenment tradition of anti-traditionalism. Take the /lit/ top 100 aggregate chart. 71/100 books are pessimistic and have a negative outlook... 71%!! And 54 of those 71 books were written after 1900!Every other book you get from a /lit/izen was written by the most psychologically beaten-down generations in all of the history of the entire world.
>>25282214>atheisticStopped reading thereYou guys are a fucking broken recordYou bore me to tearsAnd worse of all you don't read. Ever
>>25282223Why can't he be right?
>>25282223I've read 34 of the books on the OP chart. I will now be reading Beatrix Potter and there's nothing you can do to stop me
>>25282227>God exists so labor alienation doesn't and also we need to see things from the perspective of a pre-Renaisance and mostly illiterate and defunct ruling class
>>25282248I dunno, why not? I don't get the hostility and total refusal.
>>25282254Because it has been repeated for years here and it starts to get tedious once it feels like astroturfing to gaslight us into being happy slaves
I dunno, I found Dostoevsky uplifting in his conclusions.
>>25282227What is OPs point exactly? That reading classic literature is too hard, that their content is bad because it isnt some disney fairytale, and that youre a misanthropic tryhard for enjoying those works? Wow this is some really revolutionary stuff and definitely not some midwit trying to cope that hes outclassed by anons with real taste
this obsession with quality- quality content, quality discussion- is everything i hate about this site in current year the fact that you and people in this thread can't sit down and enjoy lit fic written in current year is just proof that you only pursue hobbies if they have some kind of ephemeral gravitas that you have deluded yourself into thinking it not only goes outside of academia and its cognates, but also it the mark of a well rounded person. you don't care about good, human stories, all you care about is if people think it's the equivalent of a deer on the wall. you're horrible people
>>25282214>ummm why are contemporaries biased towards works writtne in the past 150 years???? >THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFOREBro...don't look up your favorite writer's favorite writers...you'll be shocked
>>25282214The ideal 100 books would all be Tolstoevsky. Christ is Tsar!
>>25282308OP here, Fair enough, the Russians get a bad rap but some of them are alright>>25282328My point is, I don't get much out of miserable literature. Probably because I don't agree with the assumptions of the authors personal philosophy, it seems like /lit/ is more for the average gnostic or antinatalist.
>>25282214>Thesis: Literature is best when it edifies and uplifts the spiritsNot really>>25282223>>25282304That's called cognitive dissonance and you're a gay baby for letting it cuck you this badly.
>>25282605You genuinely sound extremely sheltered and, worst of all, possibly female. Modern life is pared down to the least painful (which is not to say most happy) parts, anyone who's never lived outside of it is extremely myopic. Read, and understand, Ecclesiastes.
>>25282531This but unironically
>>25282214>starts faux-academically>doesnt to anything to prove his thesis
>>25282214What's with these posts and threads trying to persuade people into erasing and defacing 4chan culture and adopt the same commercial wholssome culture that permeates the rest of the internet?
>>25282634Retard leftists and women raiding us from twitter and 4chan, if I had to guess
>>25282634Trying to create the literary equivalent of poptimism to shore up the dying print publication industry
>>25282637>and 4chan
>>25282655>>25282637LOL did I have a stroke? I meant discord
>>25282634There has been substantial reddit immigration into 4chan, it started with r/the_donald and it has only gotten worse. /pol/ is infested with it now, more and more OP'a are discussing "on reddit I saw"
>>25282214Stoner is worse than Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto
>>25282637>>25282659this guy owns a reddit account and loves pitting people against each other
>>25282625You cannot have Ecclesiastes without its pair the Song of Solomon
>>25282634>4chan culture
here's the rating I used to tally the 71/100 number. Red for definitely depressing, yellow for questionably depressing.
>>25282214God doesn't exist. If losing your imaginary friend makes you feel nihilistic and depressed, that just demonstrates your own immaturity.
>>25282663Kek, you gotta love how jeets try to blame a defunct sub that was proped by 4chan to begin with.
>>25283430Kek this! Have some reddit gold, my friend of the Orange!
>muh jeetskeep seething
>>25283332>works that are overtly life-affirming through negative example are "nihilistic" and "depressing"
