/lit/ - Literature

>>15255909
yeah but at least they'll have a degree and you'll be serving their kids french fries at a drive-thru on their way to a skiing trip

>>15255909
you're not paying for the knowledge, you're paying for the piece of paper that proves you've obtained said knowledge.

>>15255989
based

>>15255909
Is there a worse normie-core movie than Good Will Hunting?

To keep this somewhat on topic for /lit/, you don't pay "150 grand" for book contents, you pay it for a universally recognized signal that you've read the book contents. And it's not $150,000 either.

>>15255909
>$150k
lmao imagine being american

>>15255909
not going to lie bros
i would fuck young matt damon without a second of hesitation and im pretty sure im hetero

>>15255909
You're not paying for an education, you're paying for the opportunity to meet people with pull to get you where you want to be.

>>15255909
adulthood is realizing that the douchebag was correct

>>15255989
Maybe, but at least OP won't be unoriginal...
Unlike >>15256040

>>15255909
>not going to a 3world country to study for free

>>15255909
I had to pay fucking 60$ in late charges for a 10$ book

>>15256063
You can also study in Europe for free at some unis.

>>15256052
Watch Talented Mr. Ripley. He got mogged by young Jude Law. I was in love...no homo though.

>>15256055
sounds like a dishonest system desu

>>15255909
>>15256034
>>15256055
>>15256058
Signal theory of higher education, it’s real and can justify even the worse majors over no college

>>15255989
NO, IT WILL BE JUST LIKE IN THE ACADEMY AWARD™ WINNING MIRAMAX™ FILM, GOOD WILL HUNTING© WHERE MY ~SECRET GENIUS~ IS RECOGNIZED WHILE I WORK AT MENIAL TASKS IN THE VICINITY OF PEOPLE WITH MONEY BUT SECRETLY I'M BETTER THAN THEM BECAUSE I DRINK WITH MY BROS (I'M THE MAIN CHARACTER), I WILL GO TO THERAPY AND DATE A HIGHLY ACCOMPLISHED, AGE-APPROPRIATE WOMAN WITH A POSH ACCENT.

>>15256086
>>15256097
Reality is not a meritocracy, fucking idiot.

>>15256084
jude does not have damon's fundamentals desu, though i have to admit that he has a certain halo (again, nohomo)

>>15256112
im aware, just pointing out the irony

>>15255989
Yeah but at least they'll have fries and will be going on a skiing trip

>>15255909
>American TV

>>15255909
>150k
Do Americans really?

>>15255909
But this is literally a self-insert made for people like /lit/(of course, less autistic), so just imagine how many people without university degrees went "yeah, I did that" happily while watching this scene. It's not that he's wrong but that if anyone ever wants to have a job in academic things university is the only way for it. There are no longer good /lit/ social circles that the likes of Pound might have found and networked through a hundred years ago.

>>15255909
>trained in literature
It's all so tiresome

>>15256128
I always hoped Yang wouldn't have buck ugly asian teeth, maybe even that he just had an Asian name because it had simply been integrated into a future multicultural American, but this, this proves it.

):

>>15256082
tfw live in Norway and can get a PHD for free and student loans are cheap

>>15256128
>TV

>>15256185
>/tv/

>>15256140
>I'm a poorfag wagie Amerishart and I'm here to argue Hegel with you!
>what I've read of him? I couldn't find the phenomenology of spirit in the public library, only this book called 'Confucius and Management' and then I watched The Slice of Life's video on him which was totally baller.
>what do you mean you're working as a legal advisor earning more in a day than I do in a month after having studied philosophy in university?!
>Ben Shapiro told me this is because leftists are rigging the GODDAMN system
>1st amendment!!!
There are no good wills, there's bitter people who didn't make it and happy people who did. Then there's happy people who didn't make it.

Good will hunting is encouraging nothing but complacency.

>>15256182
Autist.
>>15256184
THAT'S SUSHIALISHM *frothing at the mouth*

>>15256193
One shouldn't go to university if they want money, they should go there to be surrounded by their interests in work and people.

So now we can assert that neither money nor education should be the hopes of university.

Good will hunting is a movie made for normies who didn't make it so they can point their fat finger and say tell themselves" I am a genius like that guy"

>>15256207
>Artist
Yeah I had thought that it was somewhat creative in its movements, that is verbal movements.

>>15256182
Yang came from a middle-class background and the Alliance is basically 1990s America As Seen By The Japanese IN SPACE so I'm sure he had good dental care.

The Empire obviously is the latter-day successor of an eugenicist dictatorship so they've probably got good teeth too.

Probably the vaguely-Euro Phezzans are the ones with fucked up teeth among the non-plebians.

>>15256223
>Good will hunting is a movie made for normies who didn't make it so they can point their fat finger and say tell themselves" I am a genius like that guy"
But I am a genius.

No promises, "I just haven't written my book yet", no direction, "I'm an artist, writer, philosopher etc", No achievements, "My diary desu", I just know that I am a genius.

Imagine going to a school to learn to read books lmao

>>15256223
This. The entire movie is midwit cope. Genuine brainlets know that they're not very clever and put their trust in big brained gigachads. They don't have to create power fantasies about the "nobility" of poverty and the supposed mercurial nature of genius.
>Pah! Doesn't matter that I fucked my life up and am scrubbing toilets. School is useless anyways.

>>15256237
Sure, they're all valid thoughts, but we have to wonder whether or not Yang himself is partly Asian since the Asians will reflect their bad teeth onto other Asians.

>>15256258
based

>>15256043
Good music, although even that I feel doesn't really fit in with the movie

>>15256128
i wish i could've gotten by as easily as Yang

>>15256340
Yang had it pretty shit though. Just wanted to be a comfy academic and ended up as a military dog.

>>15255909
What's this haircut called?

>>15256351
the 90s bowlcut

>>15256140
Today the sociable working class ChadDamon makes a company and a million before 30 while the other guy becomes a low tier irrelevant academic with shit pay and soul crushing job

>>15256340
>i wish i could've gotten by as easily as Yang
You're such a fucking pussy you know that? And you insult Yang by the bourgeois life in which you lead.

Oh what, your mindset gets more "fizzled" by difficult phenomena? Yeah okay faggot, logically conclude your mindset. It can literally be anything and still positively fall inside *your* personality.

>>15256368
you misread what i said you fucking retard

>>15256358
I think everyone has it shit these days... except for Roger Scruton. He could just find this nice little home of tradition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoybTk6TEX4

>>15256043
I read maybe half of the assigned readings at university and still graduated with above average grades. Most college kids are, let's be honest, complete retards. Some of them are only there because they can play sports good or are the right ethnicity.

>>15256396
>to retarded for even community college
picture books for this feel?

>>15256340
im aware, but he was quite exceptionally gifted even if his life was very tragic

>>15256440
>>15256350

>>15256057
based and reference pilled
>>15256040
cringe and uneducated

>>15256421
There is quite literally no shame at all in being a brainlet.

I thought this movie was cool as a kid, but when I watched it high the whole movie is just about how Damon is "wicked smaht" and everyone is is a dummy. He doesn't even do anything intelligent besides mary sue equations out of nowhere.

>>15255989
What you talking about? Lit fags are the ones serving the french fries

>>15255909
The problem here is american education, not education itself. The fact that it costs this much to go to college is actually criminal.

>>15256055
In that case I’d rather pay to have a fake Bar Mitzfa certificate.

>>15256052
gay

>>15256055
sad

>>15256058
yes, but only in hollywood

>>15256082
who cares as long as you don't live in europe

>>15256125
sick

>>15256086
>desu
cringe

>>15256184
Joe Rogan = cringe

>>15256223
No, it's just a movie

>>15257353
This is single most cringeworthy post I've ever seen on this board.

>>15257400
NO, YOU.

>TFW studying electrical engineering and computer science while reading in my free time
Living the dream desu.

>>15256184
Yeah, imagine if the rest of the world was as sustainable as your rich country with a population of 0.4/square kilometer.

>>15257578
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2cMG33mWVY

Are all of you peope utterly fucking insane?
>You're paying for the cerification!
You pay for certification where it means something, engineering and such where they can't just take your word for it. Philosophy never was and never will be profitable, it's a hobby, get over yourselves. Pursue a viable career and read in your spare time you manchildren.
"I didn't go to film school, I went to films". Go to philosphy bros, don't let the Academijew get you.

>>15257124
based, it seems marijuana has pulled your IQ from the abyss

>>15257241
cool it with the antisemitism

small brain
>paying for an education
normal brain
>paying for a certificate that says you're educated
big brain
>paying for the social connections you'll make that will help you get ahead in whatever field you're studying
galaxy brain
>paying for the parties and young adult sex so that you'll be an emotionally well adjusted individual

>>15256112
Have you ever applied to a college / job ?

>>15257610
Lmao, no. The fuck do I want a job for?

>>15257777
christ, talk about bluepilled

>>15257780
I'm graduating in two weeks and worked for the last two years in MIS consultation. Don't reply to my posts ever again.

>>15257784
It's not an imperative but then why would you burn thousands of dollars for a useless major? If you're NEETing NEET til the end and read off campus

>>15257780
Yes i have. I have applied for 3 jobs and 2 universities, all of which accepted me. However on the application i gave multiple answers to weather or not i belonged to indigenous groups, visible minorities groups, or the lgbt community. None of which imply any sort of merit but all of which are weight during the application process. I am just lucky that i am so amazing that they can't resist me regardless of my "privileged"

I am a Good Will Hunting-esque genius.

On the one hand it's a blessing, but on the other it's an almost unbearable curse. All my life I've aced every test I've ever set. I've failed at practically nothing. Even in sports I excelled while other "academic" kids refused to even take part. I've just completed my BA in English Lit at the age of 19 and I'm about to start on my MA (fully-funded scholarship), but I don't know how long I can continue being a genius before I eventually burn out or break down. My professors all tell me that I stand out and that's it's obvious that I'm destined for great things. Heck, one of them has said outright that he wishes he had possessed my intelligence and work-rate when he was my age. Whether it's math or science or literature I just excel in everything I do without even considering that there was an option that I could not. Just last semester I solved a theorem that people had been working on for the past two decades (I won't say which one because my name is now indelibly linked with said theorem) and that was a for a class I wasn't even supposed to have attended. Psychiatrists have said that people in my very small demographic of highly intellectual individuals usually suffer from aspergers or some related disorder which deprives them of a healthy social life, but I have surprised each one in turn when I inform them that in fact I am an incredibly sociable and well-liked individual (despite also being a mysterious hermit-like recluse) and that every girl I have either dated or simply penetrated a bunch of times has described me as the kind of guy they could really see themselves with long-term.

>>15257824
great blog post bro

>>15257824
What's your favorite pornstar?

>>15257824
You ever read something and just know it was written by somebody under 5’7

>>15257893
Cassidy Nova

>>15257806
How’d you get your MIS job?

>>15257926
I'll assume that you're not >>15257780 who is a fucking idiot and who I specifically instructed to never reply to my posts again.
My best friend's mom owns a neighborhood management company and outsources their IT operations. She got me an interview with their consulting company and that was my first "real job" after years of weird part-time jobs. I'm graduating honors but I'm not a genius by any stretch. I got that job because she put in a good word for me and that's it. Most of this stuff is just pure luck and making the most of every opportunity.

>>15255909
I am a Good Will Hunting-esque genius.

On the one hand it's a blessing, but on the other it's an almost unbearable curse. All my life I've aced every test I've ever set. I've failed at practically nothing. Even in sports I excelled while other "academic" kids refused to even take part. I've just completed my BA in English Lit at the age of 19 and I'm about to start on my MA (fully-funded scholarship), but I don't know how long I can continue being a genius before I eventually burn out or break down. My professors all tell me that I stand out and that's it's obvious that I'm destined for great things. Heck, one of them has said outright that he wishes he had possessed my intelligence and work-rate when he was my age. Whether it's math or science or literature I just excel in everything I do without even considering that there was an option that I could not. Just last semester I solved a theorem that people had been working on for the past two decades (I won't say which one because my name is now indelibly linked with said theorem) and that was a for a class I wasn't even supposed to have attended. Psychiatrists have said that people in my very small demographic of highly intellectual individuals usually suffer from aspergers or some related disorder which deprives them of a healthy social life, but I have surprised each one in turn when I inform them that in fact I am an incredibly sociable and well-liked individual (despite also being a mysterious hermit-like recluse) and that every girl I have either dated or simply penetrated a bunch of times has described me as the kind of guy they could really see themselves with long-term.

>>15258007
I found this in the archives, didn't know it belonged to a thread that's live.

>>15256850
then why do i feel like eating .45ACP all the time

>>15258007
lol go suck nigger dick you piece of shit

>>15255989
This is why we need fast food workers need radicalized with Marxism Leninism.

>>15258421
I don't think a bullet would taste very good
Try eating something else like a sandwich

Adding to whatever the other anons said, generally many of the self-proclaimed "geniuses" who didn't go to college, and say they have read X amounts of books, do not know how to study/analyze nor spend the right amount of time to process what they just read.

I've met so many people who just skim through the books but never stop to analyze. If you read books but do not understand them, you are basically unable to generate new thoughts or reflections.

>>15258007
post a pic of you wearing a dress please. wax first ofc. if this thread is down by the time you take it, just take another pic of you holding a sign that says "/lit/ boytoy uwu" posing with any meme book you have at hand, and then post both pictures in a few popular threads. that way they'll get back to me
anyway thanks

>>15259339
low conscientiousness. Quite a mismatch in an academic environment.

>>15255909
*ahem* my family dropped 150k not me, and *ahem* i have proof and you don't. check and mate.

>>15256396
This, I pulled a 3.1 out of my ass even though I partied most of the time. And this was at a better public uni.

>>15259471
t. majored in humanities

bump

>>15256084
t. bald

>>15256128
>American

>>15255909
How much do you think this Will Hunting faggot reads per year? I need to update my Goodreads™ Reading goal for the year and I want to MOG the fuck outta him.

>>15259481
Not wrong, I was a retarded frat boy who only got in because I was, "well-rounded." At least I have steady employment now, though.

>>15258421
Anon, I'm sorry I made you feel bad with my post. I'm sure you're a lot smarter than some of the people I went to school with. As long as you try your best in life that's all that matters.

>>15255989

cringe

>>15259575
>But anyway, can I buy your panties off you before you wash them?

And then everyone clapped the scene

>>15257353

you really don't have to respond to every single post like that you fucking faggot

>>15257124
That's the point right, Robin Williams character puts him in his place in the scene at the park

>>15255909
>the virgin auto-didact vs the chad Harvard Bvll

>>15256052
just admit you're a faggot already, jesus christ

>>15255909
Jokes on you thinking I had to pay for college.

>>15259575
what's so pathetic about being a singlechad?

>>15258433
I bet if he did he'd be the best damn dick sucker that had ever been.

>>15255989
They will be standing side by side, the lit degree flipping burgers.

>>15255909
If you're actually talented writing is so much better than reading.

>>15256101
Underrated

>>15256223
>>15256271
filtered

>>15256382
No I didn't.

>>15257605
This, is.... Bizarre.

>>15257824
woah you're a genius with a full ride and everyone likes you and you fuck a lot of girls? damn you have it so tough, bro. praying for you

>>15263144
OOOHHHH MY GOD HAHAHAHA YOU GOT SOOO TOTALLY **FILTERED** BRO HAHAHA!!!
ANYONE THAT DOESN'T LIKE MY BELOVED HECKIN' FILMERINO MUST HAVE JUST BEEN FILTERED BY IT.
I LOVE USING THE TERM "PLEB FILTER" HAHA!

>>15258421
because life is shit whether you're a brainlet or a genius.

Most college kids are retards. Education strayed away from primary sources. Brah, I went to law school and everyone there was pretty retarded and unread. College is about giving you the opportunity to learn and a piece of paper at the end. You have to take advantage of the tools it provides, it's not going to do it for you.

>>15259584
get on his level

>will is good at hunting
>will go hunting?
>go hunting will!
>good will for hunting
>hunting for good will
>good will is hunting
>hunting, is good will
>good will hunting
>will to good hunting
>hunting the good will
>good will in hunting

What does it mean?

>>15255989
explain one real job that you can get with a lit major, i mean something that contributes to society.

>>15263255
I dunno, is will good at hunting?

>>15263306
Journalism and blogging disseminates information to the public that they may find useful. Do you remember the old internet and how hard it was to find a specific piece of information without all these cunts having blogs about how to fix the MX750 underwater basket weaving machine when it starts blinking but doesn't turn off? When you respond to this and tell me that journalism majors would do this instead, I tell you that your question presupposes a non-artistic value in society and denotes lit majors as not having non-artistic value and your question was posed to have the answer you wanted, so go fuck yourself.

>>15257610
>"I didn't go to film school, I went to films."
This is one of the reasons I fucking hate Tarantino. You don't go to film school to learn how to make movies, you go to make connections with hundreds of other people who also want to make movies. Tarantino was a loud, narcissistic faggot who worked countless shitty jobs before stumbling into the ground level of Hollywood. He was so bad at filmmaking that he couldn't even finish making a film until he was 30 and had sucked enough dicks to have a budget in the millions. This retard can't even finish a movie unless people are literally throwing money at him. Film students idolize him because of this bullshit self-made persona, but he's a terrible example for young filmmakers. Robert Rodriguez is a better one. At least he worked his ass off.
Philosophy, however, is a huge waste of money. You're not even getting any connections out of it, you're just paying to read.

>>15258518
Based comrade

>>15255909
Uh, excuse me? I never paid for my higher education. Where did you get that idea from?

>>15263394
>Journalism and blogging

Neither of which you need a degree in literature, (journalism or blogging for that matter also) to do successfully.

You don't even need a Lit major to become a successful author.

>>15263977
maybe not but they will probably make you a better writer and reader than anyone else
see
>>15259339
with all liberal arts degrees it is pretty much how you apply the skills you have learned in a general setting

>>15256055
>you're paying for the opportunity

That's a big gamble if you don't come out without any meaningful contacts. There's how many professors who see how many students every semester? And amongst the thousands of thousands of students enrolled that you may perhaps be enrolled alongside how many are you really going to talk to (and of whom actually end up amounting to something anyway) that you will develop a special relationship with? The idea that you do it for the company is completely retarded because institutions are so oversubscribed and bloated nowadays anyway with a larger noise-signal ratio of actually decent students with genuine promise and not loan kiddies where university is the next kindergarten for their emotionally and socially stunted adulthoods.

>>15263306
Any menial office job
A bachelor's is a HS diploma in today's world

>>15262176
That has to be the most Asian furry I’ve seen. The guy really fucked up the facial features.

>>15262245
people think it means something is wrong with you

>>15255909
i thought he btfo'd stemfags in this movie

>>15264232
you can't see riley raid in that face?

>>15264009
In the particular case of Good Will Hunting, it's literally impossible to come out of Harvard w/o contacts. That doesn't actually track across all Ivy Leagues, but people do go to Stanford, for example, almost exclusively to meet angel investors and drop out.

>>15257824
Please delete this

>>15257590
Literally me IRL.
Reading more than working -- currently just writing my thesis in coronatine with my amazing gf. I already have a job waiting for me in June.
Currently reading Borges' complete works.

Love life.

>>15264422
>Love life
found the faggot

>>15263689


You sound mad that Tarantino knows more about film than you do, even though you paid a lot of money to learn about film.

>>15255909
Imagine paying money for someone to tell you to read books.

>>15255989
Times sure changed, these days the lit major is forced to serve fries because of college debt and the lit Neet doesn't need a job

>>15257147
>>15255989
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xL9VLARq8k

>>15263689
>Tarantino is a loud, narcissistic faggot
That describes every successful Hollywood director and producer.

>>15256052
Gay if you let him penetrate you, not gay if you're the only one penetrating

>>15256055
tfw you were an antisocial stem major throughout college thinking my hard skills would give me an easy life later
guess I'll just codeslave for the rest of my life desu
at least I'm in Europe and did not get in debt for this

>>15256396
I get good grades but I'm careless and inconsistent. For example I should be doing my final right now but instead I am on /lit/ and watching videos on youtube.

>>15257590
>>15264422

Fuck well off happy people.