/lit/ - Literature

>>18541092
It's really surreal how smartphones and internet accelerated the whole thing.
I grew up in the countryside of this country, 18 years ago teenage kids there wouldn't know what countries bounded our country, the name of the president, wouldn't be able to name a single famous celebrity since most of them didn't have tv.
But now?
You go there, to the exact same place, and you see kids discussing Kanye's west shoes and having a lot american trap in their playlist. It was all so fast.

>>15055589
Of 500 books I own, the only w*men in that list is Simone Weil and Sylvia Plath

>>12634804
Will Catholic mysticism cause psychosis?

>>12348284

She looks like my mother. Only my mother is more promiscuous.

Is her philosophy interesting? She cute.

I read a collection of essays by Weil today. The first time I read something by her.
Why did she hate jew culture so much? (Pensées sans ordre
concernant
l’amour de Dieu : Israël et les Gentils") and was she right about Christianity being somehow a "platonic religion" or it's just bullshit?

>>11246472
>>11246478
>>11246484
>tfw no Jewfu

What does /lit/ think of Simone Weil?

>>10874223
Fix yourself bro

>The laic (anti-clerical) system is not neutral. It inculcates in children a philosophy which is on the one hand very superior to religion of the SaintSulpice type, and on the other hand very inferior to genuine Christianity.

>To allow laic philosophy to preserve its official status would be an arbitrary measure, and an unjust one, seeing that it fails to correspond to a true scale of values, and one which would hurl us straight into totalitarianism. For although laicization has produced a certain amount of fervour of an almost religious kind, it is, by the very nature of things, a strictly limited amount; and we are living at a time when passions are fanned to white heat. Totalitarianism’s idolatrous course can only be arrested by coming up against a genuinely spiritual way of life. If children are brought up not to think about God, they will become Fascist or Communist for want of something to which to give themselves.

>Future professional teachers and schoolmasters should simply be told that religion has at all times and in all countries, save quite recently in certain parts of Europe, played a dominant rôle in the development of human culture, thought and civilization

She predicted the apparition of swjs and /pol/acks by lack of real spirituality