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17223159 No.17223159 [Reply] [Original]

The aesthetic greats are falling from public consciousness, to be replaced by books with social utility.
(If this is a false premise please correct me)

My question is, is it necessary to take measures to maintain their status or will this blow over in time?
If it doesn't blow over in time, is that a bad thing?

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>>17223159
the canon is being replaced in academia, but who cares academia is fucked anyways. the aesthetic masterpieces will always have an audience; online communities like /lit/ will preserve the canon and people will still be reading the Iliad hundreds of years from now. as a side note, just because SJW's have taken over English classes doesn't mean that that will always have control over them. some people think that our current social liberalism is destine to stay the status quo forever, when in reality there is no such guarantee. in a decade or two the pendulum could swing back to a more conservative attitude, and schools will go back to teaching Chaucer instead of John Greene novels.

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>>17223159
>replaced by books

>> No.17223195

>>17223178
This past half century seems to be the first time the classics have been removed from scholastic tradition. I agree Academia is fucked but its role in shaping our world is growing.

I agree that the current social liberalism is unlikely to be permanent. Though I do think that what comes after will not be conservatism, or at least not in a sense that we will see the classics read again.

>> No.17223219

>>17223195
I can only speak from an American perspective, but if we keep unraveling I predict the Caesar that will kick off the American empire will look like the president from idiocracy and be super woke.

Hopefully not but the rise in wokeness has caused me to become a book hoarder just in case we're headed for another dark age.