Why are so many venerated books, such as literary fiction or western canon books, so fucking relentlessly boring and long winded? It's maddening. They are put on a pedestal by the academia-media-publishing industrial complex for money / worship reasons.
Why is so much philosophy so fucking trivial? Why should I agree with Socrates that the unexamined life isn't worth living? All of the Greeks are just tools people use to appeal to authority or a prism through which people pass their own views for pseudo-intellectual cred ("Obama is no philosopher-king, as Plato talked about, therefore...").
It all seems like pretentious appealing to authority desu.
Stop trying to justify being a pleb. It's about expanding your viewpoint and gaining some perspective.
Also, how is philosophy trivial when it's literally bout trying to understand life?
Christian Walker
what a philistine
shame on you
Noah Flores
>no examples given
Are we talking about philosophy? If so, are you expecting action in a discourse about the nature of...nature?
Are we talking about the Illiad, Odyssey, Plutarch's Lives, Thucydides, the Bible? They are action packed.
I have no idea what you are talking about.
Jose White
>WAKE UP SHEEPLE, I'M A RETARD AND YOU SHOULD BE ONE TOO
no thanks
Jayden Flores
I heard they translated the bible and Shakespeare into emojis, maybe you would like that better
Dylan Nguyen
Like 95% of classic literature is riveting as fuck provided you have the intellect to appreciate it.
Chase Robinson
>expanding your viewpoint >listening to old white faggots
Stop trying to justify your student loans
Eli Phillips
You're NEET, right?
Charles Price
huevos pendeja
Josiah Perez
Philosophers and thinkrers are the original NEET's you dumbass. They are born rich and nothing is ever expected of them besides writing thousands of pages of repetitive jargon supposedly about identifying with a life they are out of touch with.
What's worse is this boards affinity for absurdism when Camus grew up in a war-torn French culture - you faggots invented and perpetrate the NEET culture.
Blake Long
I think college is as much bullshit as the next guy. But being educated is important, and how does one educate themselves outside of college? By reading fucking books, maybe?
Josiah Mitchell
Philosophy is education, but all education is not philosophy. It's a useless hobby for pseudo-intellectuals.
Leo Peterson
Then who are the real intellectuals, in your book?
Kayden Turner
Terrible, imprecise logic. You're worse than tripfags.
Landon Perez
>real intellectuals just a different kind of elitism because hurr durr I read letters then listen to other people's interpretation. It's a piece of white tradition so it has to be good!
Michael Hill
Yes, because the real world runs entirely on logic. Have you even graduated yet?
I was simply stating that there is more to self education than reading a bunch of Greek wannabe faggots, and "intellectuals" who can't talk about anything but their own depression. Hitting close to home yet?
Noah Cook
>expanding your viewpoint and gaining some perspective. >by reading the same books that everyone already agrees are worthy
lmao
Jaxon Rodriguez
There is. But for you, not so much. Your own stupidity has clearly handicapped you from properly self educating yourself, as much as you struggle. Poor you.
Cooper Rogers
This is the sanctuary of the "intellectual." I thought you were supposed to be better than me user? What's wrong, never read a book on manners?
James Green
It was a fairly simple yes or no question
Lucas Sanders
>Veeky Forums >a sanctuary
Get a load of this shitposting pleb
Nathaniel Carter
nope, more like ~20%
Mason Nelson
>listening to nonwhites >ever
Isaiah Wright
who's this man milk Mephistopheles
Benjamin Clark
>The guts/frog poster is a retard supremacist
Well color me surprised.
Ethan Myers
>low intellect detected
Bentley Collins
...
Grayson Perez
Let me guess, video games are the highest form of art?
Christopher Hill
ITT: Buttmad nonwhite tries to argue the intellectual superiority of intellectual inferiority