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whats their deal
i saw this thread yesterday and lol'd irl
Would all the famous philosophers and writers grow up to be the same as if they were born today (meaning born some 20-30 years ago)?
They would lurk on 4chan
This. As r-slurred as most channers are, this website still appeals to philosophical types because it lets you share your thoughts without much censorship or lame incentive structures.
after i posted an ebin react gif of norm mcdonald laughing, i got this response
Okay, now try to make an actual argument (and make sure it's not a strawman)
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Philosophy is for morons. If they were smart they wouldn't be so poor and sad.
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Exactly why you'd find them writing manifestos on 4chan
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The amount of teenage agnst I've seen 30 year olds "put to pen" on /lit/ and call it "philosophy" is very high
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unironically, philosophy talk has ruined /lit/
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Some of them are doing drugs and feeling special from it
except its never that fun sounding
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oh shit u saw my post
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i did all my philosophy talk on /b/
5% of the time some random lurker would bite
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isnt /x/ the "philosophy space"
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/lit/ is about literature the same way /v/ is about video games
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Some /lit/tards genuinely seem to buy into the idea that 4chinz is the place where "smart people pretend to be dumb" and think they're heckin quirky smart guys.
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smartest board I've seen was /diy/, they helped me many times not accidentally kill myself. /fit/ would be second smartest. It probably says something that I've been more convinced about the benefits of roiding than I have about whatever philosophy /lit/strags post
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Any hobby where there's an incentive to approach the subject matter in order to be "intellectual" instead of useful/practical/insightful always attracts these types. Which is why any forum discussing any "artform" and to a lesser extent philosophy and social sciences always ends up this way.
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This is why betting markets will save the Internet. Some butthole makes a prediction, you tell him to put up $100
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They remind me of my insane great uncle who was "always going to be a great author" and went to MENSA meetings
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This is the only place online I talk about books or writing. /lit/ is mildly entertaining, but too focused on nonfiction and philosophy for my tastes. A lot of the pretentious stuff seems ironic or semi-ironic. Those reading lists where they sneak Harry Potter into A tier are always worth a chuckle.
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The OC is kino, though.
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/lit/ hates me because I like Stephanie Meyer
I actually hate the themes of her books, though she unintentionally made a Mormon allegory which is pretty interesting.
I just think she's an objectively great writer, with some good strengths in story telling that are worth studying. Her writing sounds stupider than it is out of context.
Twilight is not a even worse love story than some of the melodramatic literature professor books they soy over
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Sometimes they make good book recommendations, but a LOT of them think they're smarter that they actually are, and really try to make you think so too.
When there's any sort of discussion going on, a bunch of them will resort to using overly formal or uncommon phrasing, coupling it with an overuse of jargon that'd make the most tenured academic blush
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4chan
is just sardines 
who happen 
to hate JBIPOC
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I don't necessarily think 19th century philosophers would have been on /lit/ but I am convinced that their correspondence was the 19th century equivalent of longposting.
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i've made this point before, but people like martin luther would 100% be longposting on internet forums about the pope and or marvel capeshit
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Imagine being a sperg in the 18th or 19th century. You don't have videogames or television to absorb your time. However, pen and paper are relatively available, as are local libraries. What are you going to do? Sometimes I wonder if videogames, the internet, and television have robbed the world of all kinds of intellectual exploration.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Urizen
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found the incel
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No he'd have a monetized Youtube channel
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The greeks broadly expressed a profound love for the sublimity of bussy, so they would be on rDrama
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does anyone else hate romans?
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They should learn Norm, the one true philosopher cosmopolite
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r-slurs learned the phrase straw man and decided it was a good counter to literally every argument
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Strawman
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Snapshots:
this:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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