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I think critically examining literature is a good thing for young people to be exposed to, and that reading generally is beneficial to the human spirit, but it’s difficult, especially with the resources available to public school teachers, to make it feel like more than just wank and busywork.
It is just a wank. That is all literature analysis is. Its value is that people enjoy arguing about the fun parts of a story.
For some reason it has turned into something like numerology but with academic clout. People do free association between symbols in their favorite literature, and they think they are both doing critical thinking and learning something about the world. But it will never be a legitimate academic subject, because it has no way of knowing.
what is a legitimate academic subject? and bro i swear to god bro if you start advocating for scientism i will blow up this Forever 21 right now
Scientism, broadly. Anything with a way of knowing. That way the academic subject can advance human knowledge.
