>That's a cool opinion abbot! However I have already homosexualized you as an effeminate pederast while depicting myself as the enlightened gigachad, therefore I win the argument.
You’re a fucking idiot.
>>25637930Read Barruel if you hate Voltaire you'll see that you don't hate him enough.
>>25637930Voltaire would use the sharty
>>25638105He'd go on his satirical Xitter account to ratio the Chuds after spending all day fanatically moderating his discord circlejerk
>>25638105>>25638119Voltaire wouldn’t exist in the modern day to begin with. It’s a non-starter. That level of intelligence is gone
>>25638135Voltaire's true genius resides in his infinite drive rather than in any of his writings (he is utterly mogged by Montesquieu, Diderot and Rousseau in that regard). The guy published 1000 to 2000 pages per year for 60 years, had incredible networking capabilities, constantly wrote letters to every monarch and philosopher in Europe, all the while amassing a vast amount of wealth through speculation and investments. He was a ruthless, cunning businessman who seeked to elevate himself to the status of demigod to forever cement his name in history.I think he'd be a Trump on steroids today.
>>25638100Thanks for the heads up
>>25638162>Voltaire's true genius resides in his infinite drive rather than in any of his writingsRetard. You know next to nothing about French literature.
>>25639557No that's correct actually. There's competence but no genius to be found in Voltaire's works. He is known primarly today for being Voltaire.>t. Read more Voltaire than most on this board
>>25639680>He is known primarly todayNot an argument and could never ever be one, everyone knows where Voltaire's fame stems from.What you say about his lack of genius for literature seems inadequate for someone who was, at the same time, a first-rate historian and laudable playwright of verse dramas. You're simple and unlearned, what you know about Voltaire is irrelevant if you don't even seem to know the merit of his output.
>>25639808Okay well actually you seem to think that being a jack of all trades is a form of genius by itself, to which I'd actually have to agree so I'll modify what I was just about to send. When you say>everyone knows where Voltaire's fame stems fromI'll tell you "no shit, his writings", but my main problem was that there was no single work of genius, full of philosophical, dramatical or psychological depth one could point to to prove such a thing (Voltaire never once wrote something as intelligent as Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws or Rousseau's New Heloise).He was a truly gifted writer who churned out competent works that for the most part died along with him.>first-rate historianWho neevr once did archival research. He was above all a great synthetizer and used what actual historians wrote before him to deliver moral and political lessons.>laudable playwright of verse dramasLaudable and technically masterful playwright yes, but not genius. He's a jack of all trades who relied on two-dimensional mouthpieces for his own ideas or to drive the plot forward, despite his exceptional command of the Alexandrine. I concede that Zaire is amazing, but nothing he wrote could ever put him alongside Corneille, Moliere... or Racine (not that much of fan outside of Phedre).Voltaire was, above all, a polemist who worked with intense zeal to push a strong rational agenda.
>>25639808Also forgot since you've got zero manners: go suck a dick faggot.
