Why do large empires tend to be awful at producing quality literature?
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Why do large empires tend to be awful at producing quality literature?
Why do large empires tend to be awful at producing quality literature?
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What is wrong or unnatural in OP?
probably mad at the critique of the us
>america bad? you must be a smelly foreigner >:(
the best literature is produced by empires in decline
Nah, its made it its spring time form.
Spain's literary golden age coincided with the height of thrir international influence. The same is true of China.
and the egyptians and the ottomans and the british too
Because they’re barbarous and against freedom of expression. Their model is the army
You are completely full of shit. I doubt you even read. Also in reality genius writing (or story composition orally) can be found among any people. The more advanced and rich ones just allow for far more people to write in general thus the losers get mixed in with the greats. You must also remember that what we have now from the ancients are the mainly the best works so the garbage is kinda gone. Japan saved all their shit so I had the misfortune of reading a 600 year old story about a woman being started and farting and how this greatly dishonored her and the dude would now refuse to sleep with her (what a homosexual).
Japan didn't save 'all their shit'. It's just that their folklore tradition is utter dogshit compared to China. Japan, until the Meiji Restoration, was just bootleg Han culture. The best thing those mudskippers ever did was westernize because it gave us Kawabata, Mishima, Tanizaki etc.
You really are an uncultured swine (Red Chinese) to think such. They have a great deal of good literature as well among the best such as the child who could create life through wall painting and the goblins. But of course instead of intelligent discussion the commie frick over here had to start b***hing. You probably don't even remember your own folklore and no Romance of the three homosexuals doesn't count.
You're only seething because he's right kek. China outshone Japan in every facet of culture. Not until Japan's westernization and their adoption of the western 'novel form' did they begin to come into their own. Dilate.
I really don't find China that impressive. Japanese culture is much more interesting, Japanese writing is much more interesting. Japanese fashion and armor is more interesting. China is the cheap knockoff nation who are at their core just India's leavings. Worthless in most capacities.
seems like you have personal problems with the Chinese
Red China is communist therefore orcs as far as I'm concerned traditional china made Confucianism which is a disgusting slave mindset. I'm also legitimately unimpressed.
>Japanese culture is much more interesting, Japanese writing is much more interesting. Japanese fashion and armor is more interesting.
Frick of you communist homosexual
American and Roman culture absorbs the individual and raises the community as high as possible; in Greece and Europe the creativity and originality of the individual is celebrated. America and Rome were successful because they adhered to common principles rather than frozen abstractions like in Greece and Europe.
imperialism and democracy are often two sides of the same coin. expanding democracy is imperialist because of its individualistic but socially cohesive nature. it favors centralization and unification - political, social, and economic. America and Rome were both wilfully ignorant of the role they had to play in history. The mere existence of such entities upsets the balance of power
Americans are psychological socialists without having any awareness of the fact. hero worship is an integral part of the American soul; initiative belongs to the individual, not the group, so democracy inevitably places more and more power in the hands of one man
Because large empires work best when every person thinks, feels, and behaves the exact same way.
Also, because empires like Rome eradicate the local culture of any place they invade and replace it with their own. They do this to completely destroy them as a people which has the unfortunate consequence of eradicating any future artist or thinker which would have come from that local culture.
Reading about people in the Roman Empire is frustrating because everyone from Gaul to Egypt seem to have Roman names and I can’t tell if they are genuinely Romans or natives. I’m always amazed at how well Romans managed to homogenise all the people under their rule
Literature comes from struggle not luxury.
Source: your ass. Get a book and start actually reading something.
The romans literally produced NOTHING aside from architecture which they copied from the greeks anyway.
It’s much worse when you realise all their scientific contributions like Ptolemy and Hero came from the city of Alexandria only
how exactly did they copy the aqueduct or pantheon from Greece? Also isn't their poetry highly respected? Like virgil, ovid, horace etc
Roman LARPers are just JROTC/Punisher types but somehow even gayer.
>What is law
>What is military organization
I think in America, we face two problems. The first is that literature is consistently out-competed by all sorts of screens. The second is that we have built for ourselves the most artificial, industrial, technological, inhuman civilization that has ever existed on this planet and literature simply cannot thrive in that sort of environment. What is poetic about a 40 minute commute across a freeway? Nothing. Nothing at all. What story could you tell with it? None.
The interesting thing I want to note about the US is that it is not an empire. Americans would like to think that, but there are little to no similarities to other empires nor has the US ever had that much hard power. The cultural influence which is the most significant seems to be more liquid and the name America just as the figurehead to a larger development, English as a language of international communication staked not to the US but again as the result of a two century long development begun before the Victorian age.
What’s your point? The Roman Republic encompassed a much larger territory than just the city of Rome before it became an empire. I don’t think Americans care so much either btw.
>English as a language of international communication staked not to the US but again as the result of a two century long development begun before the Victorian age.
That's complete and utter bullshit. The lingua franca used to be French, then German. English came to dominate to world because of the geopolitical situation after ww2.
This really. The english are just more (the only really) vassal states of the U.S. How Americans speak is how everyone else wants to speak. They should just call the language American since that's the important people speaking it. If Americans actually all speak Spanish in the future that will become the new main language of trade.
>The english are just more (the only really) vassal states of the U.S
Are you a boomer? Or perhaps you parrot your dad's opinions? That may well have been true during the Cold War but it's certainly not the case these days. The one people insist this tend to be eurogays who can't cope with the fact they're an irrelevant, dying, continent.
>They should just call the language American since that's the important people speaking it
this has to be bait, noone can actually be this moronic
OP, you need to read more
english and arts classes in the US, especially in public schools, are underfunded and understudied.
Read The Decline of the West
All the books I have ever read have been in american though
good.
>arguing and making vast generalizations about different fields you know nothing about
So this is the power of IQfy...
THIS FRICKING THREAD AGAIN, I SWEAR I'VE SEEN THIS SHIT BEFORE
Rome has decent literature
>Horace
>Senaca
>Marcus Aurelias
>Virgil
>Cicero
America has pretty good literature as well, the only problem is that we haven't had good American lit for a good century now