All modern writing (1900 and on) feels like absolute dogshit after reading Homer, Hesiod, and Ovid (and the Bible). No, I do not find your story about sleeping around in Paris interesting. Or your story about shooting Giraffes in Kenya. Doesn't anyone have anything to say about metaphysical questions? Nothing? Is this why kids like Marx? Is he the last guy that had anything to say (even if it was completely stupid)?My only guess as to why this is is because modernites are cowards to the core. They're afraid to say anything because in doing so, people will disagree.
>>25324363oh, and Nietzsche is just psychotic. Every page of his filled with schizotypal neologisms that he assumes you will think have some deep meaning.
you're a retard if you think 30,000 pages about an atheist nu-religion based on factory workers has anything to say
>>25324369He has something to say in the sense he is making metaphysical arguments. It just so happens that reality itself defeats the arguments. You said it yourself by calling it a "nu-religion."
metaphysical questions arent very serious
>>25324376Your entire existence is a metaphysical question. The fact you don't view it this way is telling.
>>25324380My existence is a fact albeit
>>25324382but why?
>>25324363It's because nominalism and modernism, and their children liberalism, socialism, consumerism/capitalism, and secularism, are all degenerate anti-life ideologies, the progeny and tools of Satan.
>after reading Homer, Hesiod, and OvidTranslations don't count
>>25324363This feels like a very odd complaint to have because i dont think it really maps onto any of the examples you give or the premodern/modern distiction you use. If you're interested in metaphysical questions, you're going to get more contemplative novels. writers like i.e Kafka, Beckett, Joyce, and Proust are in many ways deeply metaphysical, but are also oftenexactly these sort of 'guys sleeping around in paris' type of novels. On the other hand, Homer, which you gave as a positive example, does not talk much of metaphysical questions at all. There are also many modern writers (perhaps more than in antiquity) that do both action and metaphysics. Tolstoy being the prime example of course.
metaphysical questions were a thing back then owing mostly to the scientific and cultural ignorance of the people who asked them
>>25324363>No, I do not find your story about sleeping around in Paris interesting. Or your story about shooting Giraffes in Kenya. Doesn't anyone have anything to say about metaphysical questions?It seems to me like you are refering to high concepts. What you are looking for is slop: cartoons, comics, YA novels, etc.Just avoid arthouse movies and literary fiction.
>>25325007> What you are looking for is slop: cartoons, comics, YA novels, etc.???You have niggers itt who can’t even figure out the metaphysics of Homer. Are you sure they’re getting anything at all from stories about John Narcissus who contemplates a lot of about trains in 1986 Seattle?
>>25324363>modernists, the writers who are known for expressing themselves and their beliefs to such a degree that many of the leading, most talented writers of the movement have completely destroyed their legacies in the long-run are more cowardly than all these poets (excluding Hesiod) who appealed specifically to the tastes of the ruling classes that would have killed or exiled them if they didn't tow the line in their workYou're a brown Twitterfag, OP. Go back to malding over MAGA or whatever it is you do in your freetime.
>>25324363>All modern writing (1900 and on) feels like absolute dogshit after reading Homer, Hesiod, and Ovid (and the Bible)I remember being 19 and discovering literature for the first time
>>25324363>All modern writingMillennial writing - maybe, but there's stuff to read as long you avoid anything with "quantum" in it.
>>25325424Did you discover anything else?
>>25324363Read Blood Meridian, it's unironically what you're looking for. Although it doesn't have any answers really, and I suspect you won't get it.
>>25325397>Are you sure they’re getting anything at all from stories about John Narcissus who contemplates a lot of about trains in 1986 Seattle?No, and that's because they don't even read those kind of stories. They read fantasy novels and webnovels and other such slop.
>>25324363ITT: teenage tourist reads some greek poetry in high school and gets high on dunning-kruger
>>25325634>anything that is so good it stands the test of millennia is actually badWhat causes this sort of contrarianism? >upon his royal face there was no note how dread an army hath enrounded himGo ahead and find anything as powerful as this in one of your “modern” or “post-modern” nihilistic bitch fits.
>>25324363On this image board there always this start with the greeks post! and that’s alright but what were getting talked about are metaphysics and the emergence or non emergence of metaphysics and the saecular and marx is nice to place a hyphen at because marx were a materialist and part of this were the way that the dialectic gets talked about and how matter assumes eminence and at this point have to step away and bracket everything to hold on to our mind because the next step on this process were to bring on swedenborg and swedenborg does come on stage and claims to the christian that the only thing christians understand is that socrates was wrong and the only thing socrates understands were that socrates did not understand anything or something like that
>>25324363>after reading Homer, Hesiod, and Ovid Sure>(and the Bible)Lmao
>>25325653>upon his royal face there was no note how dread an army hath enrounded himBro was locked the fuck in no cap.>powerfulYeah, you need to check those mangas. You'll fucking explode when you'll read Berserk. The Eclipse is soooo powerful, fr. It shits on the story of a misogynistic philosophy professor trying to buy a house from a realtor suffering from multiple personality disorder, fr.
>>25325702Henry V is an English Iliad. No one in modernity even attempts something like that anymore.
>>25325702Lmao get em senpaiFr fr no capDem moderns aint gettin no bih
