Hey /lit/, what do you think is the most stupendous human creation? There are plenty of masterful individual works out there, be they texts or music or even inventions like the steam engine or nuclear weapons, but what single creation or idea do you think best represents human excellence?
>>7441279
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Neutral Milk HotelOn Avery Island
>>7441279
Beethoven's 9th symphony.
>>7441293
Pure Ideology.
>>7441294
And?
>>7441298
It's a joke. You know from his second Pervert's Guide? :s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAViNtzGtzM
>>7441301
Epic meme.
>>7441309
Thanks? You should listen to it, if you haven't. Explains why you would think it's humanity's greatest achievement.
>>7441314
The music is great. That fat lisper is trying to appropriate Beethoven for his own views.
>>7441321
OK. Don't listen to it. Have a nice day. :)
>>7441323
I did listen to it. He's wrong.
>wagner's ring cycle as communist narrative
Top kek
Probably sheever
Woman
>>7441336
i go back and forth on this one.
i can't decide whether woman or man holds the primacy of experience
men are involved in so much of the happening of the world, we make civilizations for the most part
but women seem to be on the receiving end of the work of men and they even get to be closer to the reproductive process.
i've settled that it's neither:
god is the primary consciousness of the universe.
we are ultimately third-persons.
opiates
The international space station
>>7441279
God
>>7441279
The written word.
>>7441336
This to be honest. My best source of inspiration.
>>7441279
this album
She's dutch not brittish
>>7441279
She's not British you fuck, she's from the Netherlands.
shis naet brittish she swiddish
whatever bach piece you like
>>7441279
The LHC
>>7441640
Like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLj_gMBqHX8
>>7441279
Formula 1
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>>7441279
The LHC
>>7441279
Music is a contender, I admit, but I'd say it's robotics.
>>7441301
>dat analysis..
Or he could simply listen to what the lyrics are about. It's about how joy is stronger than any form of reservation or conformity and policy. That easily includes ideology.
I really find this man and his opinions are really overrated. I think he simply sells himself pretty good, knows how the market works.
>>7442839
Except that he mentions that the lyrics are changed when played in front of different audiences.
What he says makes sense you fucking idiot.
>>7442870
>implying that changes the music and how Beethoven wrote it.
I was clearly referring to the part where he analyses Beethoven's intentions which is what he eventually goes for in the clip with all his cleverness. So fuck off you piece of shit.
>>7442894
When does he ever do that?
>>7442894
He never talks about Beethoven's intentions.
He explains what Beethoven's song ultimately does and what it now stands for, but he never comes out and says "Beethoven really meant this when he made Ode to Joy".
Try paying attention to what he's saying next time.
>>7441293
Unironically agreed
>>7441279
Whatever it is, it certainly has nothing to do with art. I'd say Newtonian mechanics and calculus.
>>7441717
I wish I was classically trained, that looks like a blast
>tfw you will never get together with musician friends and play some beautiful music
>>7441279
Base six.
>>7441279
The Dog and other domesticated animals (and plants)
>>7441279
Clothes man. Ever spend some time naked, outside. It's cold out there man, real cold. I don't really know, I'm just spit ballin' here. I like to look at it from an exploratory one of view, Voyager is the furthest thing we've flung from us. So, maybe Voyager. Of course this is /lit/ and anyone could argue that it doesn't matter at all. Then again I'm just visiting from /k/.
The most beautiful thing in the universe is Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
>>7445383
Fuck clothes. They've made us ashamed of our bodies.
>>7441327
>>wagner's ring cycle as communist narrative
Wot
How can anyone actually be so deluded?
>>7441279
The city-state.
the alphabet.
the simple notion that a symbol in writing should correspond to a sound (vowel or consonant) and not to an idea, an object or just consonants.
The curve of a womans foot
>>7441279
Language is the only right answer.
>>7441279
Domesticated corn. No question.
>>7445452
strong agree
The iPhone
>>7441279
Brown ale
>>7441279
Star Trek: The Next Generation
>>7441279
Probably the internet or written language.
>>7441284
Oh shit
>>7441279
The leash, the harness, the fetter.