/lit/ - Literature

>>20855751
I honestly don't understand what you can get from other books that you can't get from this. I'm not even a judgy thumper.

>>18975113
Start with the Greeks

Does Platos breakdown on how states decay mirror the systems employed by Guenon and Evola in the breakdown of the caste systems.
Wisdom (priestly caste)
>overthrown by
Courage (warrior caste)
>overthrown by
Greed (merchant caste)
> overthrown by
Freedom via democracy (slave caste)

I always read on here to start with the Greeks, and after 2.5 years, I’ve finally finished platos republic. What next?

ITT ideas that have been most harmful to intellectual thought

Just imagine bros. No trannies, no niggers, no degeneracy, no fags (Plato thought fags were degenerate, cope), no liberalism, good education, good art, kids forced to start sports at an early age, no atheism, no technology, respect for beauty, being ruled by people that know their shit and want the best for their people instead of psychopathic kikes, it literally doesn't get more comfy than this. Plato really had it all figured out. Why did we abandon this model for society and replace it with cultural marxism and liberalism?

Aside for the occasional tangent where he portrays those who disagree with him as blind cavedwellers this was just Socrates describing some sort of socialist dystopia in which philosophers, who are superior being, regulate every facet of society all the while his disciples just go "yes you are right and very smart Socrates" over and over
I guess if you agree with such a nightmare vision you are going to think of this as a masterpiece, but how is this a quintessential philosophy work that gives life meaning?