/lit/ - Literature

Happy birthday, Lovecraft. I will help secure the existence of your literature and a future for white authors.

“Minimalist” postmodern architecture – originally meant to critique capitalism – has become the gold standard precisely because it’s cheap. The overwhelming majority of us still find these buildings hostile and alienating. But the style still thrives, because capitalism loves cutting corners on the financial inessentials that make our lives tolerable.

The right has now learned how to wield the sword of “there is no truth,” and turned into the alt-right. Great progressive thinkers, meanwhile, can’t bring themselves to criticize even the most medieval of regressive ideologies nowadays, up to and including Radical Islam.

And let’s not forget the postmodern mindvirus of transgenderism: a lie built on lies so brazen that it beggars belief. Even I, good liberal that I was, didn’t want to see the paradoxes in that last one. I spent years trying to re-brainwash myself – looking for logical consistencies that were never there – before I was forced to accept the inevitable conclusion.

It’s really incredible what some people will believe. Some ideas are so unbelievably stupid that only the greatest of minds are agile enough to perform the mental gymnastics required to justify their lies. And now we’re all divided, and the wolves are at the door, and the barbarians are at the gate. Our future looks grim, and the art wasn’t even any good.

>>15835471
I read this out loud and my chair started floating, pretty cool stuff OP

>>14756844
I teach film. Occasionally my students make a comment that alludes to some deeper, highly objectionable belief like the bullshit you're describing, but it's never overt enough for me to address it without completely derailing the class. The ones that care at all have very rehearsed and moralistic opinions about films, despite consuming nothing but Disney blockbusters and having no knowledge at all of great cinema. They have no interest in watching something older than themselves and act like the suggestion the world didn't begin with them is an insult. The only other professor who encourages them to watch such films does so for the sole purpose of opening up discussions about how bigoted they are. I'm amazed that some frustrated professor hasn't shot up a university yet.

>>13348734
A nice rhythm going on in your poem, I can almost hear a ritual-like drumbeat while reading it

Here's mine:

The page’s slight whisper
A faint susurration
Brought about by pale, spindly fingers
Orb-less sockets directed towards
A manuscript cluttered with ink characters

Dust then billows from its coal-black coat
A symphony of creaks and crackles
As it rises to its feet
Laying down its dog-eared friend
A hefty thing, with knowledge replete

A staccato series of clicks and clacks sound out
As it cranes its head towards the entryway
A man is framed against the hall’s light
The room’s lamps blossom, the reader goes away

Other literature in the common vein of:

>Beckett
>Kafka
>Pynchon
>Lovecraft
>Philip K. Dick

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