Why are so many venerated books, such as literary fiction or western canon books, so fucking relentlessly boring and long winded? It's maddening. They are put on a pedestal by the academia-media-publishing industrial complex for money / worship reasons.
Why is so much philosophy so fucking trivial? Why should I agree with Socrates that the unexamined life isn't worth living? All of the Greeks are just tools people use to appeal to authority or a prism through which people pass their own views for pseudo-intellectual cred ("Obama is no philosopher-king, as Plato talked about, therefore...").
It all seems like pretentious appealing to authority desu.
>muh pretentiousness
>muh acdemia-media-publishing industrial complex
>muh pseudo-intellectualism
Stop trying to justify being a pleb. It's about expanding your viewpoint and gaining some perspective.
Also, how is philosophy trivial when it's literally bout trying to understand life?
what a philistine
shame on you
>>8123124
>no examples given
Are we talking about philosophy? If so, are you expecting action in a discourse about the nature of...nature?
Are we talking about the Illiad, Odyssey, Plutarch's Lives, Thucydides, the Bible? They are action packed.
I have no idea what you are talking about.
>WAKE UP SHEEPLE, I'M A RETARD AND YOU SHOULD BE ONE TOO
no thanks
>>8123124
I heard they translated the bible and Shakespeare into emojis, maybe you would like that better
Like 95% of classic literature is riveting as fuck provided you have the intellect to appreciate it.
>>8123137
>expanding your viewpoint
>listening to old white faggots
Stop trying to justify your student loans
>>8123124
You're NEET, right?
>>8123365
huevos pendeja
>>8123368
Philosophers and thinkrers are the original NEET's you dumbass. They are born rich and nothing is ever expected of them besides writing thousands of pages of repetitive jargon supposedly about identifying with a life they are out of touch with.
What's worse is this boards affinity for absurdism when Camus grew up in a war-torn French culture - you faggots invented and perpetrate the NEET culture.
>>8123365
I think college is as much bullshit as the next guy. But being educated is important, and how does one educate themselves outside of college? By reading fucking books, maybe?
>>8123387
Philosophy is education, but all education is not philosophy. It's a useless hobby for pseudo-intellectuals.
>>8123420
Then who are the real intellectuals, in your book?
>>8123420
Terrible, imprecise logic. You're worse than tripfags.
>>8123427
>real intellectuals
just a different kind of elitism because hurr durr I read letters then listen to other people's interpretation. It's a piece of white tradition so it has to be good!
>>8123449
Yes, because the real world runs entirely on logic. Have you even graduated yet?
I was simply stating that there is more to self education than reading a bunch of Greek wannabe faggots, and "intellectuals" who can't talk about anything but their own depression. Hitting close to home yet?
>>8123137
>expanding your viewpoint and gaining some perspective.
>by reading the same books that everyone already agrees are worthy
lmao
>>8123464
There is. But for you, not so much. Your own stupidity has clearly handicapped you from properly self educating yourself, as much as you struggle. Poor you.
>>8123518
This is the sanctuary of the "intellectual." I thought you were supposed to be better than me anon? What's wrong, never read a book on manners?
>>8123379
It was a fairly simple yes or no question
>>8123524
>4chan
>a sanctuary
Get a load of this shitposting pleb
>>8123361
nope, more like ~20%
>>8123365
>listening to nonwhites
>ever
>>8123192
who's this man milk Mephistopheles
>>8123124
>The guts/frog poster is a retard supremacist
Well color me surprised.
>>8123660
>low intellect detected
Let me guess, video games are the highest form of art?
>>8123124
ITT: Buttmad nonwhite tries to argue the intellectual superiority of intellectual inferiority
>>8123124
Idiot.
>>8123719
>conformist detected
>>8123743
art =/= intellignece
