Literature is, in many ways, the highest art-form. Whilst it's the easiest to pick up (just look at fanfiction.net), it's the hardest to master. Making a good novel, with compelling themes, character arcs and resolutions, an overarching plot that entertains and, perhaps most important, pacing that keeps everything together, is extremely difficult.
My question is, why have whites created the greatest literature?
Asians, who outscore us by 5 IQ points are beaten out by single white nations white populations 1/10th of their collective own. It seems logical to assume whites have a special gift for artistic enterprises, including writing.
My theory is this: Writing literature takes deep emotion and belief in abstract concepts that whites often obsess over and have obsessed over since the days of the pre-socratics. Since Asians are more intelligent and generally lower t, they are more pragmatic, more level-headed and less inclined to a belief in mystical, transcendental, abstract philosophies and ideas - and the attendant strong emotions that go along with them. This makes for startling efficiency, but makes for very boring literature and art as well (consider the uniformity of East Asian architecture over the past 2000 years).
>>55466978
The motion picture animation with soundtrack is the highest form of art.
>>55467152
No, hybridized forms of art like movies, animation and games lack a singular artistic vision or direction. Their artistic accomplishment comes from a sort of coincidence in all the pieces managing to fit together but never managing to form a coherency that a great novel would.
>>55466978
You should know that IQ is not a perfect measurement.
Whites have higher verbal IQ compared to asians.
Asians have the rest higher(spacial, mathematical).
Maybe that's why they feel so autistic.
>>55468084
I can well believe East Asians are more intelligent, but I don't think their societies are necessarily more livable.
Cao Xueqin is frequently called the Chinese Dostoevsky. Actually, The Dream of the Red Chamber is a boring, dry, semi-annalistic-history of a family.
There's no real plot, no character arcs, nobody learns anything, nobody changes or grows as a character, nobody is forced to face real, emotionally charged decisions, no great abstract questions are dealt with.
It's bizarre. It's considered one of the four classics but I can't find anything compelling about it at all.
People frequently cite Haruki Murakami as an example counter to my central hypothesis, but I think that's irrelevant for two reasons:
1) I'm primarily talking about Sinosphere literature, and post-12th century, Japan really wasn't a part of the Sinosphere in a meaningful way. Consider how they regarded the Chinese as alien as the Dutch in the 18th century and relegated them along with Dutch traders to Dejima.
2) Murakami, while I enjoy his works, is imitative. His best novels aren't actually "Japanese" at all, except in superficial aesthetic terms, and he's at his best when he's going full magical realism, of which Borges is easily the best example.
Why are females usually weak as characters in white literature?
>>55469735
I don't think that's true, there are various examples of Shakespearian female characters who disprove your point. Hell, even from antiquity, look at Lysistrata. You'd never find anything like that from East Asia.
>>55468841
Is it perhaps not exactly that? the image of the mundane, the average, that strange tranquility most asian cultures seek?
>>55469886
What do you mean by "strange"? You're ascribing it a quality it doesn't possess here.
And yes, I can understand that as a desire for one's civilization, but not as a piece of literature.
>>55469848
There are plenty of women with strong character in Eastern literature, its just that its mostly counter to Confucian ideas of womanhood and this ultimately defeats her.
>>55470180
>plenty of women with strong character in Eastern literature
Outside of Japan and before western influence, can you please name some?
>>55469735
because thats how they are in real life
>>55466978
So that you know, the greatest writer of Brazil is a black man named Machado de Assis.
>inb4 hue literature
He is also considered one of the greatest in the world, if you really like literature just look for his work, it is widely available in english
>>55466978
I would think some of the works of marble and granite are harder then the best novel anon.
>>55470600
>He is also considered one of the greatest in the world
I'm afraid he isn't. Nor is he part of the Western Canon.
Do continue to entertain your BR delusions though, it is amusing to the rest of us.
>>55466978
I've got a good pic for your thread.
>>55466978
>He hasn't read the Maharrbyata
>>55466978
>Asians, who outscore us by 5 IQ points are beaten out by single white nations white populations 1/10th of their collective own
When will you people get this simple point: a 5 point higher average does not it is proportional across the spectrum, i.e. it is not the case that for every White with 130 IQ there is an Asian with 135. There are more slightly-above-average Asians, but there are significantly more of both White retards and sublime geniuses. Since masterpieces aren't really created by people with 105 IQ's, that should answer your question
>>55470716
Looks like The Guardian shares my hue delusions
>Still neglected by English readers, the Brazilian writer is one of the very greatest of the early modern era
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/mar/01/survey-short-story-machado
>>55471014
>Looks like The Guardian shares my hue delusions
No fucking shit, it's the most libtard paper in the UK for goodness sake.
Get back to your favela and stay there, ape.
obey
>>55466978
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>>55466978
Because Whites still have Indo-European spirit, the aristocratic soul that forces us to win neither riches nor the average but glory.
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>>55470716
What do you think about Portuguese literature? Do you know any?
>>55471509
That's a warfare manual, not literature.
So favorite books, /pol/?
Currently reading I, Claudius, which was recommended to me by a /pol/ack awhile back.
>>55466978
***more pragmatic, more level-headed and less inclined to a belief in mystical, transcendental, abstract philosophies and ideas - and the attendant strong emotions that go along with them. This makes for startling efficiency, but makes for very boring literature and art as well (consider the uniformity of East Asian architecture over the past 2000 years)***
Tips to you sir.
>>55471550
Portuguese are European, so I assume you have some good literature.
>>55471564
Haha, that was probably me.
>>55471576
...That's the complete opposite of fedora tipping.
>>55471096
that was uncalled for
>>55470781
>>mahabarata
Indian Brahmains were mostly white Indo-Europeans
>post pics of ancient greece
>why have whites produce the greatest literature?
AAYYY LMAOOOO
>>55471679
But do you know any?
>>55471752
>Indian Brahmains were mostly white Indo-Europeans
Uh, no.
>>55471781
That's Ancient Rome.
And Ancient Greece is the beginning of Western Civilization.
post yfw the internet has forever killed literature by destroying the world's attention span
>>55471815
Yes they were. Indo-Europeans were originally from East Europe and spread out from there. Both the linguistic and genetic record show this.
>>55471823
>Ancient Romans were white
AYY LMAO
Smart is the next cool.
Why don't you read, cool boy?
>>55471906
False.
>>55472001
Love the way this anon sounds like a black monkey even via pure text, lol.
>>55466978
Maybe it's just the fact that it's a vastly different group of languages?
>>55466978
>why have whites created the greatest literature?
take that back
>>55472001
>>55472029
Aussie on vacation?
>>55471679
/pol/ book club when?
>>55472062
Since when were Mediterranean people considered "white"?
Only white people can have recessive traits? KEK
Nice filename nigger.
>Literature is, in many ways, the highest art-form
>>>/lit/
>>>/reddit/
>>55472329
>buying into Jewish education
>>55472353
>Since when were Mediterranean people considered "white"?
Back to /int/ with you, we know most of the "X isn't white" crap comes from non-whites such as yourself. Your attempts to ingratiate yourself with us through white banter are really embarassing, truth be told. Non-whites are incapable of banter, being as they are, naturally predisposed to despotic forms of government and a fear of irreverence.
>>55472543
I'm ignorant, what is that?
>>55472493
>trying to take credit of what ancient Mediterranean romans did thousands of years ago
your race has hit a new low. you're worse than the niggers claiming they were kingz and kweenz n shit
>>55472603
Phoenician/Runes.
Before latin, after hieroglyphs.
>>55466978
Of course writing has little to do with IQ and more to do with emotion. Why do you think it's one of the few fields where women can nearly hold their own against men?
What you should be asking is why whites with our lower racial IQ have produced more brilliant mathematicians and scientists than Asians.
>>55466978
no need to pull your dick mate, asians just have a low capacity for abstract emotion. fuck knows why and who cares
>>55469573
murakami is absolutely shithouse.
>white teenagers: i love jap lit! haruki murakami! ahh.... who else... hmmm... :(
pseudo surrealism with some fucking perverted sex scenes thrown in to impress teenagers
western literature is seriously going downhill though, the only books that are taken seriously are written by women or minorities and are almost always about how hard it is to be a woman or minority
i fully used to be into it too but since becoming redpilled ive realised that writing about this stuff is so much easier than it looks. seriously, last year i wrote a 2500 word essay on depictions of masculinity in contemporary short stories, wrote the thing in like 4 hours and got a high distinction for the cunt. my whole fucking argument was basically meat/blood symbolises masculinity. shit's a fucking copout and any cunt with half a brain could do it
>>55473115
Natural selection and logic.
anyone got some mad recs for a good summer read? im on uni break and got fuck all to do
>>55473362
Randall Munroe - What if
Ian M Banks - The Hydrogen Sonata
>mandatory.jpg
http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_copybook.htm
"In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions." - Henry David Thoreau
We actually outscore Asians in literature/English by quite a fair bit.
>>55474293
>outscoring Asians in your own language
You must be proud. Let's see you outscore Asians in Mandarin.
>>55469735
You should read some Sophocles and Euripides, bitch nigga.
>it's the hardest to master
Are you retarded, OP?
Making video games is the hardest art form to master.
>>55466978
mind the statistical tails, not the averages
europeans stratify vertically; asians horizontally
>>55474293
Not according to some /pol/ infographic I saw here once. I remember even commenting that it was strange that asians scored better in english than whites.
