/lit/ - Literature

>Concerning yourself with the "average person"
They have been shitters for all of human history.

>>14342913
In Catholicism, the senses serve emotion, which serves the intellect, which serves the intuition, which serves the will.

In the renaissance, the intuition was denied, and reason could serve the will alone. But with the enlightenment, intuition was held to be an outgrowth of reason and so the higher thing was made to serve the lower thing. Then, with Romanticism, emotion was held to be the sensation of intuition, and so was evidence of a higher reason; with this, intuition served reason which served emotion. Following Romanticism came naturalism, emotion was suppressed as unreal, and with it anything that was not material; the senses served reason alone without intuition or emotion. Of course, this denied too much of man, and so did not last. Modernists reintroduced intuition, but in service to the senses, which in turn served reason. And then the post-modernists felt cold, so they re-introduced emotion as a signpost of intuition. And now we are at a stage where intuition serves reason, which serves emotion, which serves the senses. The natural hierarchy of Man's soul has been inverted. We have become slaves to our appetites.

>>14342913
plebs finna pleb anon

>>14342913
>why does the average person have such little taste
They never had. You probably are from a middle class background and you had your nerdness and Internet in your favour.

Simplistic or overwrought lives want simplistic pleasure

Want to know why? Read "On Books and Reading" by Arthur Schopenhauer.

>>14342913
Because none of these things are requisites to getting and mantaining a job, personal relationships, and many other more aspects of everyday life.

>>14342913

You're gonna tell me that you got that from cover 28 of the Hunter X Hunter manga, am I correct?

Don't lie, Anon. I know it is the case.

>>14342913
Because everybody is stupid except for you, anon. You're the only one who understands and appreciates anything. You're so special.

>>14342913
why do you care?
You would probably complain even more if their taste was equal or higher then your own

>>14342913
They don't even know how much they don't know. I can still remember the days when I knew it all.

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>>14344334
germans are truly autistic

>>14343027
Can you reccomend me a book on this history?

>>14343017
The pure things in life are those which are aesthetically appealing. Innocence and purity are of the highest worth, yet what will our love of literature, film, music or art benefit us at the end of the day if we use such unaesthetic (profane) language? You see when Jesus was on the earth in the flesh what did the wisdom and knowledge of the wise and learned amount to them in the end when their hearts were weighed down with arrogance and stiffneckedness? It was the sick who needed him, so does the whole world today.

>>14342913
4u

>>14342913
because why would you care about that stuff when you could just have sex

you don't realize how cringe you sound, incel

incel cope incoming in 3... 2... 1...

>>14343027
great post desu

>implying most people here have taste

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>>14345511
Sadly no, not to my knowledge. Start paying attention to narratives, and then pray to God that he reveals you to yourself as he sees you. As the lies you tell yourself become more clear, the common lies people tell themselves become more clear.

>>14342913
Reminder to ignore all pseudointellectual rhetoriticians and instead go and read the complete works of Homer, Pindar, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Euripedes, Hesiod, Aristophones, Herodotus, Sappho, Plutarch, Ovid, Virgil, Lucretius, Arisoto, Horace, St. Augustine, Marcus Aurelius, Rabelais, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Luther, Cervantes, Chaucer, the Beowulf poet, Chretien de Troyes, Marie de France, Sterne, Burton, Browne, Wyatt, Sidney, Percy Shelley, Tennyson, Donne, Pope, Dryden, Bacon, Novalis, Schelling, Schlegel, Hegel, Pascal, Lichtenberg, Dickinson, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Dickens, Marlowe, Diderot, Jonson, Goethe, Bunyan, Gibbon, Addison, Smollett, Milton, Johnson, Boswell, Emerson, Quincey, Burke, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Mary Shelley, Wollstonecraft, Racine, Baudelaire, Valery, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Moliere, Montaigne, Browning, Gray, Holderlin, Schiller, Shaw, Voltaire, Hugo, Balzac, Zola, Colette, Duras, Dumas, Stendhal, Nerval, Flaubert, Mallarme, Malraux, Chateaubriand, Artaud, Poe, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Byron, Keats, Arnold, Pater, Walter Scott, Swinburne, Rossetti, Carroll, William James, Henry James, Hawthorne, Twain, Melville, Dewey, Bergson, Whitehead, George Eliot, Williams, Frost, Cummings, Crane, Stevens, Whitman, Plath, Trakl, Rilke, Celan, Montale, Neruda, Lorca, Tagore, Manzoni, Peake, Murdoch, Wharton, Wilde, Leopardi, Faulkner, O'Connor, Passos, Nietzsche, Marx, Adorno, Bloch, Lukacs, Bakhtin, Hamsun, Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, Andreyev, Bely, Bulgakov, Gonchorov, Camoes, Pessoa, Queiroz, Saramago, Paz, Borges, Bloy, Pirandello, Huysmans, Lautreamont, Schwob, Casares, Bolano, Cortazar, Lima, Donoso, de Assis, Carpentjier, Celine, Marquez, Unamuno, Gracq, Gide, Jarry, Camus, Conrad, Wells, Hardy, Salinger, Lawrence, Forster, Hrabal, Swift, Bronte, Woolf, Bachelard, Roussel, Beckett, Proust, Nabokov, Joyce, O'Brien, Yeats, Waugh, Heaney, Auden, Hofmannsthal, Mann, Musil, Broch, Zweig, Bachmann, Jelinek, Lessing, Laxness, Simenon,Svevo, Levi, Buzzati, Quasimodo, Llosa, Walser, Kafka, Babel, Schulz, Transtromer, Kertesz, Pavic, Andric, Grossmann,Sillanpää, Linna, Mahfouz, Boll, Grass, Canetti, Pavese, Robbe-Grillet, Blanchot, Perec, Calvino, Bernhard, Gass, Barth, Gaddis, Vollmann, Vidal, Hawkes, DeLillo, Pynchon, McElroy, Soseki, Murasaki, Shonagon, Kawabata, Mishima, Akutagawa, Tanizaki, Dazai, Oe, Xingjian, Yan, Kosztolanyi, Gombrowicz, Ishiguro, Eco, Coetzee, Auerbach, Benjamin, Barthes, Pasternak, Derrida, Deleuze, Bateson, Foucault, Lyotard, Mcluhan, Eichenbaum, Steiner, Munro, Carson, Handke, Theroux, Patrick White, Alfau, Marias, Enard, Claude Simon, Elizabeth Bishop, Markson, Lowry, Bellow, Dara

>>14343027
so what you're saying is that only NT mbti types can be Catholic? based.