/lit/ - Literature

It went from bad to worse.
There aren’t enough literate people to fill a hat much less vote on charts
Goonman is still trash and a part of the problem

>>19321578
kys tranny

Rapture is dead. That's something new.

>>19321566
There are still yearly charts.
One of the biggest meme writers is Guènon.

>>19321578
lol once again, you post this as if you don't have a tripcode on and we dont have a clear idea of you patterns of behavior, aka the way you like going into threads about books you have not read or topics you have no knowledge of and absolutely shitting up the place

>>19321578

>>19321566
The incels found god and are now just celibate and morally superior.

>>19321604
Was rapture here in 2017?

>>19321566
Ernest Becker
Emil Cioran
David Benetar

>>19321708
Assuming this was a tripfag? I don’t remember him. Pretty sure the only active trip when I left was budderfly. That autistic Mexican guy (formerly Rae, or someone copying his shtick) was occasionally posting still. Guenonfag I guess. Does Gaskun ever post?

>>19321701
unironically me

Buddha gang runs /lit/ these days. The cringe tradcath zoomer fears the dharma warrior.

>>19321746
Rei still posts but his name is cumgenus or something now.

>>19321958
And they do so for the benefit of all beings. May all beings be free of suffering.

>>19321566
People larping as traditional catholics has become very popular.

Still, there are still some good discussions here from time to time, mostly on the more niche topics.

>>19321566
>>19321958
Don't listen to this OP. /lit/ is a Hegel/Bakker board now.

>>19321566
You missed the rise and fall of Waldun (PBUH).

/pol/ threads and incel threads barely related to literature getting +300 replies while serious literature discussion threads are rarely popular.

Are there still Deleuze threads? That was the last gasp of the old /lit/ to me

More Traditionalist garbage, more alt-right zoomer crap, religion LARP, /his/ and /x/ content, frog posters everywhere. Yeah, the typical stuff.

>>19321566
look who came crawling back

>>19322264
Based on this thread it doesn’t sound like the board has really changed. People are still Guenon and Goonan posting. 2013-17 is all blurring together in my mind but I kind of caught the tail end of the tripfag exodus and constant DFW/Tao posting and from then on it was just predictable cycles of trad spam, flavor of the month philosophy threads (Nick Land, Deleuze), memetic schizoposting, /pol9k/ bait and forced memes (“people are reading Culture of Critique”), newfriends who don’t read derailing every thread to complain about their gay problems, critique threads, bookshelf threads, e-celebrity gossip (that Irish guy, that Latina grad student), “bugs.. easy on the carrots,” “that’s why you read Plato” etc. Even when I left I thought /lit/ was a fun board but I expected it to have changed more. It seems slower but might be the holiday. And can someone post the 2020 chart

>>19321701
Based enlightened incels

>>19321746
rapture was a dying man who had a massive library and would randomly make research threads, ask him a topic you want info on or books on and he would provide. Sort of a librarian by hobby but he also had an amazing memory and would be able to rattle off a dozen books that would fill your needs and discuss them in depth. He was a great resource and seemed a great guy all around.

>>19322347
This place fell to shit during your absence, for the last 6 years or so I just pass through on occasion while looking for new books. Seems the place has started to get back on track and picked up where it left off, which is about where you left it in 2017. In the past 6 months or so my post count has gone up from maybe once a month to a few times a week, it was complete shit for a good while, most every thread got derailed by incels, /pol/, or tradcath larpers.

>>19322492
You should continue to not post

>>19322515
are you incel, /pol/ or tradcath larper?

>>19322347
>>19322492
4chan in general got invaded by insincere ideologues using this board to propagate their hidden agendas. The whole website is now basically an alt-right recruitment pub. I wish Hiro paid more attention to his website and closed /pol/. Without a general purge of the scum, this website will probably become depopulated soon.

>>19321566
This happened last week and the tripfag you mentioned admitted she shit herself and even posted the shitty underwear. (She still gets triggered by pic).

>>19321566
She hasn't changed much though...

>>19322615
You already have reddit and every other site if you want that stuff censored

>>19322615
Would love to see the reaction to /pol/ getting shut down.

>>19322627
We just want to have a conversation about literature without it being turned /pol/, it has it's own board for a reason.

>>19322638
So go to reddit

>>19322627
Reddit censors things based on mods personal susceptibilities, they act like kings in their own feuds and that pretty much murdered the website. Freedom is necessary but when you have a party using it for their own gain the necessary step is to cut them out of the circle for sake of freedom. Is it contradictory? Of course it is, because that's how freedom works. In any case, /pol/ does not remain inside /pol/ and is creating a culture that is not good for this website at all.

>>19322660
Do you also want to ban any left wing political content?so no Marx threads here for example?

>>19322676
If Marxists invade 4chan and try to use as their own platform from indoctrination, yes. But this is not happening as of now.

>>19322685
Why not just ban all political content? Hiw do you differentiate between a user wanting to discuss right wing political theory and this conspiracy you're talking about? The only fair solution is to ban all left wing content too

>>19322695
Why should it be fair? What is fair about a group derailing everything they can into a discussion about their own beliefs?

Ultimately the philosophy loop hole was a mistake and needs to be dealt with, all philosophy goes to /his/.

>>19322695
Because political thought itself is not the problem, people using the website openness to propagate their ideology with zero respect for the content limitations are.

>conspiracy
You've got to be blind to deny /pol/ ideologues spreading to other boards. Or you're simply being insincere, which seems to be the case.

>>19322709
Why should left wing political theory be allowed when it is literally no more on topic than right wing political theory?

>>19322710
>when leftists discuss stuff here it is organic and fine
>when rightists discuss stuff it is nefarious and has to be censored
You people are a joke. There are commies all over this board that give their commie opinions about whatever they feel like. I have never once suggested these people should be banned for bringing up capitalism or whatever because I'm not a censorious faggot. You don't belong here at all

>>19322716
Because the lefties stay out of non-political threads.

>>19322742
No they don't, you just dont care if they bring up a political angle because you agree with it

>>19322736
>>19322746
Sperg all you want but leftists, at least on 4chan, are civil. Can't say the same about the crazies outside here.

>>19322746
No, I do not agree with it.

>>19322756
You're biased and lack the self awareness you even be aware of your bias.

>>19321566
>Who are the new meme writers?
Me desu

>>19322765
Not really. I don't have an ounce of sympathy towards leftists or rightists in general. You're the one blind by ideology.

>>19322769
did you write my diary?

>>19322685
>But this is not happening as of now.
You only say that because you are used to commie shit being spammed everywhere so you no longer see it.

>>19322779
Yes
You're welcome

>>19322777
I'm the one who doesnt want censorship, who doesn't mind seeing leftist or rightist content. You're the one who thinks one side is uniquely bad and the other is good and you're telling me I'm the biased one lmao

>>19322792
I feel like I've seen this conversation happen a hundred times before.

>>19322794
Almost every thread.

>>19321746
Gaskun actually released his book.

>>19323263
That is not rapture unless he published under a pseudonym, his name was Pennington.

We have some new tripfags and some of them aren't even awful

>>19321715
>Ernest Becker
It's just one guy reposting that characteristically jewish anal play passage from Denial of Death

bump

>>19323263
Is this a bodice ripper?
>>19323322
Gaskun is/was an occasional trip who worked as a filling station attendant while working on his novel

How did you manage to stay away for such a long time and why did you come back?
2018-2021 were just like 2015-2017, generally. More Spengler, more Islam, few changes desu.
I have never been one of the fags that saw 'early /lit/' as a golden age (just check warosu) but there have been far less interesting threads and posts in 2021 compared to the years before.

>>19325230
What would you consider an interesting thread

>>19325250
Something novel that has not been discussed before or in that quality which is somewhat related to my interests. There have been more threads of the 'AMA, I have read everything on that topic' a few years ago. For example one about Spengler one about Nietzsche.
I have saved the bookmarks of dozens of interesting threads but there are money mediocre ones among them and I would have to tidy that up firsthand.
Either way here is one of the better ones:
>>/lit/thread/15630625

>>19325518
>>>/lit/thread/15630625
there should be a monthly list of quality threads of the month. meme it
mem eit meme it

>>19321566
>be /lit/ 2017
>the Meme War of 2016 has washed up a lot of tourists
>after a few raids of Bismarck-posting, Guénon-posting, and the likes the majority of redditors and normies left with the absolute certainty that this Malaysian manga drawing forum cannot be infiltrated without severe brain-damage
>2018 and 2019 saw a rise of meme authors including /lit/izens and mods such as Londonfrog or Horia Belcea
>covid changed this board entirely since lockdowns had people stay indoors almost 24/7
>the period is hence called the Long Summer
>2020 lolcow authors include Waldun, Gardner, People Mover guy, and Shitkicker dude
>now 2021 is almost over and fewer and fewer threads beat the dead horse of Waldun's writing career which was ended by KDbooks twice
>there have been some rays of light during the past five years, e.g. forestanon's videos, some funny meme threads, a rise of effortposts and book clubs, but all in all it's the same old same old good old shithole

>>19325518
>>19325917
monthly quality thread lists could help. it would grow board-awareness

>>19321566
>Do you still vote yearly charts?
An aggregate of our charts became trending on reddit and they were all fellating us. It was quite embarassing.

>>19322146
I though we all agreed on trad Cath?

>>19321958
>>19321975
Don't listen to them. Buddhist fags get btfo for being nihilistic utilitarians under an esoteric coat of paint all the time.

>>19321958
Anti Jainist himsa loaded lies. /lit/ is going to wear the mask until we can tell people it's to not kill the mosquitoes and that virus lives matter too.

>>19322621
link to the shitty underwear?

>>19328292
There's a monthly schedule. Personally, I'm working on making a wall out of sticky rice cake blocks to be ahead of the game for February. This is the year the Chinese zodiac and the Celtic pagans share a new year, it's gonna be lit.

>>19328462
Celtic New Year is today. You mean it's a combined Celtic Spring and Chinese New year LARP on February 1.

>>19325917
>there have been some rays of light during the past five years, e.g. forestanon's videos, some funny meme threads, a rise of effortposts and book clubs
Rays of light indeed anon

>>19322347
Slight more anonymous posters believe we're super serial now though. Newfriends think we're super smarts. Ten million times easier to collect tears. Still very hard to get them to read stories though, that is the same.

>>19328292
I think Shinto was the only one we agreed on because weebs, Marie Kondo, and pretending inanimate objects love you back now you're living together long enough to be friends.

>>19328534
>Marie Kondo
She said only thirty of our books could love us back so we cancelled her.

>>19321604
Is he really? He was posting videos a few months back. Bummer.

>>19321578
is there anything I could do to make you kys?

>>19328575
>>19321604
Nevermind, I just read his obituary. Rest in peace.

I'm pretty new here, not saying it's perfect or that there is always quality discussion but there seems to be a good balance of right and left wing views.

>>19321566
couple collaborative projects, handful of zines, Guenon threads, Sunni threads.

>>19322615
I agree with you

>>19322643
Kill yourself

>>19328621
Are you literally insane

>>19321566
People pretty much agree what Catcher in the Rye is about, and there's a stable and common agreement surrounding the pedophilia and rape.

>>19321566
I also left the board around 2017. The board seems to be the same except there are no more Jordan Peterson threads and the percentage of people who actually read has declined even further.

>>19329704
Oh and Girardfag doesn't seem to be posting anymore.