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Is the death of God and the death of the Author pretty much the same exact thing?

>>15922933
If a problem is too hard, you can just pretend there isn't a problem. If your dreams and desires are hard to fulfill, you can shove them back down. If you're ugly, you can just stop looking in the mirror. If you've got a weird cancerous mole on your leg, you can just not look at it. If you're afraid of the dark, you can just close your eyes. If something bad is happening, you can just pretend not to see. If you don't like the truth, you can doubt anything.
After all, you decide what is "true" based on nothing but a feeling. Sure, you can arrive at that feeling through logic. However, perhaps, you started that whole logical train of thought from nothing but a feeling in the first place. Perhaps all philosophy is just a sophisticated way of justifying your own biases and preferences.

What interesting piece of philosophy have you learned recently? Can you explain it to the average /lit/izen?