Is a lot of the elitism and butthurt on this board frustration due to the fact that we no longer live in olden times where obsessing over books or religious works was the only way to convey intelligence? These days we have maths, physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, and to a lesser extent economics, psychology, entrepreneurship, and to a much lesser extent sociology and anthropology.
And the reading of books has been elevated in to an intellectual and religious act due to absurd literary "theory" (and cultural dogma) that treats every single work of fiction as a potential source of incredible wisdom / philosophical insights / penetrating knowledge about humanity. But definitely not just a source of entertainment, no way (well that's what the academia-publishing-media industrial complex tells me).
*tips fedora*
t'would be a good thing to see if people realised video games can be art too
Do you know what the word 'art' means?
Is it wrong to say that through enjoying pieces of creative fiction/non-fiction we then gain wisdom and philosophical insight?
I feel like we just try too hard to dissect and analyze something rather than just reading it.
>>8024594
If books can't be entertainment, what is twilight or other pop shit? Sure, there's conventional wisdom that reading makes you smart no matter what you read, but in most cases readers learn nothing from what they read and it's little more than tv.
Although they were more deeply intermingled, the Greeks and Romans had most of those fields as well, and both lit and philosophy propagated their societies.
The biggest issue nowadays is probably universal literacy and access to old texts. It's hard to establish a new canon when everyone is on a similar playing field and there are few ways to distinguish yourself. I wonder if someone writing now could possibly champion a new movement posthumously like a Kierkegaard or a Nietzsche
>>8024603
Judging by Wikipedia and the Stanford philosophical encyclopedia there is no agreed upon definition.
Though, on a no doubt completely separate note, I do see that some people have some incentives for claiming certain definitions and that they try their best to avoid mentioning that they have these incentives.
