/lit/ - Literature

This board is over, and the moderation won't do anything about it.

The only solution is to create a philosophy board and send all political philosophy discussions there. Thus, we'd have /pol/, a board for discussion of political events; and /litpol/, a board for discussion of political theory.

As for /lit/, it should be entirely confined to discussions of real literature, real philosophy (epistemology, metaphysics, meta-ethics, Platonism, Kant - though all of this could easily be sent over to /his/), language-learning, book recommendations, literature-related news.
Politics shouldn't be entirely banned, but it should stay totally within the context of literature - thus, if Houellebecq says something politically incorrect, this is worthy of being posted here, because it is of literary interest (helping us to better understand his work and the person who created those works); but a thread saying ''prove Marx wrong!'' or ''prove Mussolini wrong!'' should not be tolerated, but moved to /litpol/ instead. Another example: one can discuss, say, the influence of identity politics in the teaching of Classics in America; but not identity politics per se, as a lone subject of political inquiry, for then it stops having anything to do with literature.

Of course none of that will happen.

I predict that every single one of you will be entirely contrary to my idea, laugh at me, this thread will be moved away, and /lit/ will remain in shambles, as it has been for well over a year now, maybe much more, I don't really remember.

This is sad, because it means there's really no place for true discussion of literature on the internet anymore. Everything has turned into politics, and can be essentially reduced to Trump vs. Bernie. Absolutely everything.

>>16060016
They have already killed it.

Months ago I tried to convince the moderation into banning political (including political philosophy) discussions from the board, and everyone laughed at me.

There's no literature here anymore. People post a Yeats poem or something about Pessoa and it gets relegated to the lowest pages, while stuff like pic related stays on the first page.

Just look at the thing.