/lit/ - Literature

>>23377972
If you don't like and appreciate chess you might be a pleb.

>>23377978
Lovely.

Intellectuals are bad, okay? What! But you’re so smart, aren’t you an intellectual? Aren’t you interested in ideas, and philosophy, and literature and… NO! You misunderstand. It’s very easy to be an intellectual, you start with a fundamental axiom or idea (just assume it’s true) and then you expand on the idea by writing books and essays. The next step is sitting in Parisian cafes and salons smoking cigarettes and having other people puff you up. “Wow, he’s so deep… the substructure of the integrand and bersurgundsweitsheish… at last I see…” Now with the patina of age and enough very smart and serious critics proclaiming your genius, congratulations! You’re an intellectual!

I said to start with a fundamental axiom or idea, but note, I did not say, start with a true one. All or most of the true ideas have been discovered, all of the low hanging fruit has been picked by the year 2024. It really takes a once in a century titan like Jung to come around and create an entirely new philosophical system and still be right. Intellectuals just pick an idea they like (not one that is true) and stick with it. “If we were to posit a cheese dimension you see… there is cheese everywhere! It is all around us!” But there is no cheese dimension… “Oh, ha, ha, ha, look at the unlearned pleb, look at this pseud! He hasn’t read Grouch’s Treatise on Cheesus. Is it too much for your small brain? Read a book.”

The problem with intellectuals is that 99% of them are full of shit, and often in highly destructive ways—see Karl Marx and John Locke. So intellectualism, being mostly detached from reality, is a typical leftist trait, because leftism in its most general terms is defined as disengagement with reality. When you see leftists decry the right for having “no intellectuals” it is because the right’s intellectuals are all dead. What more needs to be said? The right is the side of poets, because poets do not pontificate about cheese dimensions, but write what they see and feel. It is no mistake that the last great poets, the modernists of the early and mid 20th century, were all extremely right wing.

>>23370496
The demonic tragedy
Small-vagina
Pleb of the mosquitoes
The young woman and the land

>>23364409
Am I a pleb for stopping at chapter four because they kept time skipping and deliberately didn't show us what happened in the radar tower?

>>23363685
I'd say you're the blackest retard gorilla nigger. I mean holy shit, imagine having that pleb tier take.

>>23363564
Agreed, but if tops relative to what was then available, who knows what any (of us) would have done, especially given that the occupational options back then (for a non-pleb) were pretty much farm, fish, or fight.

I prefer the Odyssey. The Iliad has too many filler battles, but it's a great story. You're a huge pleb if you don't appreciate it.

>>23363241
as one of the major themes of the novels go, the elite of the world are soulless internationalists at their core, and theyre literally like a bunch highschool kids trying to fit in to the international elite culture and be trendy and prove themselves according to that metric, and at the time speaking french was a trendy sign of being a cultured person.

the novel plays on this irony throughout the narrative as everyone flip flops on napoleon depending on the diplomatic situation, showing complete inconsistency of beliefs, then France invades and everyone scorns the french while speaking french and following french trends, and eventually, the invasion forces many people to face this irony and many are taken by a nationalist spirit and abandon that internationalist mode of thinking and connect more to their Russian roots, eventually culminating events like the rostovs giving up the last of their wealth to save a bunch of pleb soldiers

>>23362643
Or that you're a retarded pleb who can't appreciate a masterpiece. Odds aren't in your favor, bud.

>>23359504
Nietzche’s a pleb then? He said Carlyle was awful and boring, and called him the exact opposite of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Your favorite book of Celine by reader category:
>pleb friendly
Journey
>high IQ pleb
German trilogy
>literary world
Mort à Crédit
Bagetelles
Krogold
>based contrarian
Guignol's Band
Guerre/Londres
>enlightened
Féerie/Normance
Entretiens avec le professeur Y

>>23359648
>what's this vulgar obsession with ranking art? very pleb tier approach
That's just how 4chan trains you to think. Once you realise that every "discussion" on this website is just console war faggotry wearing a different skin you can start developing opinions that are worth defending.

>>23359643
what's this vulgar obsession with ranking art? very pleb tier approach

>Doesn't understand The Golden Path
Is she a pleb?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy63nGnh7RY

>>23352567
*it's also called public/private
Also don't mistake me for a log cabin republican, they want to do away with this division which is why they're cucked.
Traditional conservatism is a gay man telling the plebs that being gay is bad; and a pagan poet telling the plebs pagan poetry is subversive. Pleb conservatives can't cope with this. Read Leo Strauss he talks about this.

>>23349029
The ultimate pleb filter

Appealing to pleb norms to make a declaration about what is moral using English conventions established by The Simpsons in 1995.

>>23349385
You don't know the first thing about music. You think, like every pleb, that enjoyment or lack of enjoyment is all the criteria you need for judging a work of art. Wagner is expanding on late Beethoven in a free form, a nice singable opera melody isn't even on the same planet in terms of complexity and depth.

>>23347539
Already posted >>23343042, pleb

>>23343036
Congratulations, you've been filtered by both the Bible AND physics. Weak bait, pleb.

hey anons, a borderline functionally illiterate pleb here. Plz answer the following questions if u plz.
1.Is consciousness genedeep or better existence deep(whatever the smallest quanta of exsistence is)?
2.Is the ultimate end goal of conciousness 'delf-reflection' i.e it trying to comprehend itself.
3.Is life merely a manifestation of this consciousness' will to understand itself and would it be safe to say that ultimate end goal of life is to figure out how and why existence, in all it's essence, exists?

>>23335078
You can buy 2.2 kilos of rice ($5.99), 4.5 kilos of Russet potatoes ($5.49), and a whole chicken ($7.99) for less than $20. In 1998 a pleb would make about $7 an hour and that same pleb doing the same work now would be making at least $17-18 unless he lives in some rotting shithole in the rust belt or the south. As >>23336220 stated most of what has become egregiously overpriced is processed garbage and junk food like potato chips, cookies, and microwavable food. If a man was willing to spend 5 minutes learning how to butcher his meat himself I'd actually reckon you could get it cheaper now than you could 5 years ago because I haven't noticed any substantial increase in the cost of whole chickens, split breasts, and quarters though I don't have any hard facts to back that up.

>>23333101
No offence anon but you're a pleb. It sounds like you've listened to about 10 pieces of classical music. Mozart and Beethoven are admired BECAUSE of their super-plenitude of soul. In them technical complexity is always perfectly united with the expression of soul. There is never an innovation that was not done with the aim of a greater expression of soul. There is never superficial skill.

>>23332409
>Plato is too highbrow for them
Lmfao. Writing your philosophy in dialogue format isn't highbrow, on the contrary, it's to simplify his ideas for the sake of the pleb masses. His actual profound ideas were delivered through the direct oral instruction, which was only available to his students. I believe the Neoplatonists put those particular ideas in their own treatises though.