/lit/ - Literature

>>8891510
>How do you cope with the fact that everything is phony?

I read Nietzsche and learned to stop painting with such a wide brush. When things are reduced to neat little digestible packages, they become easy to outright accept or, in your case, outright reject -- they're good or bad, or good or evil, or useful or worthless. But I'm now able to see the shades of gray, to recognize that, for example, some social science is worthless and some isn't. The reason Nietzsche so often resisted grand truths is because they easily lead one to black and white thinking, which ultimately leads to believing falsehoods. Everything isn't phony. You have to learn to look more closely and distinguish the phony from the genuine.

How do you cope with the fact that everything is phony (inb4 dismissed for being like Holden)?

Literary theory is bs made up so that people can leech off of academia and get easy degrees.

Social scientists are idiots and weaponised by dishonest journalists as the new secular prophets telling people what to think / why they're shit. Psychiatry / psychology has become an infinitely malleable mental masturbation wank toy for pseudo intellectuals who like trying to draw conclusions in subject areas with near enough infinite variables.

Morality is never practised. A politician who kills innocent people is more popular than one who says politically incorrect things. Historians, even today, worship Hitler, Napoleon, and Julius Caesar.

So many current novels are merely narcissistic barely disguised memoirs or written by people with zero life experience.

Science and maths are practised mostly within hideously subsidised and bloated academic institutions.

Sex and portrayals of success are shoved in your face wherever you go through songs and pictures. But you're not allowed to say you want any of it.

90+ % of jobs could be done by everyone and only recruit based on looks and personality. Your genetically determined appearance factors are the largest influence of how people treat you, yet this is never acknowledged.

Literature is not an oasis, not one bit.

We live in a time where the individual matters less than ever, everywhere. People join the army for personal gratification and to feel safe in "the system" like regular wageslaves yet we live in the age of nukes.

You are mercilessly mocked and judged based on your job's social status and other economic aspects ("Bob from Grimsby" as a joke).

"Education", the idea, is pushed as an absolute good yet almost everything in the education system up to the age of 18 is stamp collecting nonsense. Your undergrad university basically brands you. It is depressing to see countless Wikipedia articles for entire universities, some of which I've never heard of, with their giant campuses filled with dumb normie students who will do fuck all, doing mostly subjects that have no objective criteria. I skip straight to the photos of the campuses rather than the statistics. The entire system is becoming a more and more efficient personal branding mechanism.

How do you cope with the fact that everything is phony (inb4 dismissed for being like Holden)?

Literary theory is bs made up so that people can leech off of academia and get easy degrees.

Social scientists are idiots and weaponised by dishonest journalists as the new secular prophets telling people what to think / why they're shit.

Morality is never practised. A politician who kills innocent people is more popular than one who says politically incorrect things.

So many current novels are merely narcissistic barely disguised memoirs or written by people with zero life experience.

Science and maths are practised mostly within hideously subsidised and bloated academic institutions.

Sex and portrayals of success are shoved in your face wherever you go through songs and pictures. But you're not allowed to say you want any of it.

90+ % of jobs could be done by everyone and only recruit based on looks and personality. Your genetically determined appearance factors are the largest influence of how people treat you, yet this is never acknowledged.

Literature is not an oasis, not one bit.

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How do you cope with the fact that everything is phony (inb4 dismissed for being like Holden)?

Literary theory is bs made up so that people can leech off of academia and get easy degrees.

Social scientists are idiots and weaponised by dishonest journalists as the new secular prophets telling people what to think / why they're shit.

Morality is never practised. A politician who kills innocent people is more popular than one who says politically incorrect things.

So many current novels are merely narcissistic barely disguised memoirs or written by people with zero life experience.

Science and maths are practised mostly within hideously subsidised and bloated academic institutions.

Sex and portrayals of success are shoved in your face wherever you go through songs and pictures. But you're not allowed to say you want any of it.

90+ % of jobs could be done by everyone and only recruit based on looks and personality.

Literature is not an oasis, not one bit.

How do you cope with the fact that everything is phony (inb4 dismissed for being like Holden)?

Literary theory is bs made up so that people can leech off of academia and get easy degrees.

Social scientists are idiots and weaponised by dishonest journalists as the new secular prophets telling people what to think / why they're shit.

Morality is never practised. A politician who kills innocent people is more popular than one who says politically incorrect things.

So many current novels are merely narcissistic barely disguised memoirs or written by people with zero life experience.

Science and maths are practised mostly within hideously subsidised and bloated academic institutions.

Sex and portrayals of success are shoved in your face wherever you go through songs and pictures. But you're not allowed to say you want any of it.

90+ % of jobs could be done by everyone and only recruit based on looks and personality.

Literature is not an oasis, not one bit.

How do you cope with the fact that everything is phony (inb4 dismissed for being like Holden)?

Literary theory is bs made up so that people can leech off of academia and get easy degrees.

Social scientists are idiots and weaponised by dishonest journalists as the new secular prophets telling people what to think / why they're shit.

Morality is never practised. A politician who kills innocent people is more popular than one who says politically incorrect things.

So many current novels are merely narcissistic barely disguised memoirs or written by people with zero life experience.

Science and maths are practised mostly within hideously subsidised and bloated academic institutions.

Sex and portrayals of success are shoved in your face wherever you go through songs and pictures. But you're not allowed to say you want any of it.

90+ % of jobs could be done by everyone and only recruit based on looks and personality.

Literature is not an oasis, not one bit.