/lit/ - Literature

What's the point of the Western Canon? Someone like Cervantes or Milton probably didn't even have access to all the great literature of their time, let alone the works we have together now and can fondly look back on today. In spite of that, they're still geniuses that produced incredible work. Is 90% of it just pointless?

>a vague quasi-meaningful non-statement in obfuscatory verbiage that is applicable to virtually any work of art with enough mental gymnastics
Here, I summarized the thread for you, faggot.

>>9426436
>being against genocide because of how messy it can get
>people are unironically reasoning with a person holding views like this

>>9359456
>physical book
>print screen

>>9313679
>flailing about in the infinitely large space of unfalsifiable ideas
Welome to philosophy, my mang.

>>9142079