/lit/ - Literature

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Generated Systems of thought oppose an habitual nothingness.
Where this is not occurring, there is no strife for improvement, whether it be an illusion or not.
There is nothing but raw data. A glitch in perpetual state of paralysis.
Why resist the illusion of movement in actuality,
where the illusion was all we ever had in opposition to nothing in particular?

Does any one here ever think of what you do on a daily basis,
why you do it and what you could possibly be doing better?

I personally think only the individual can create better realities and only for the individual.
Community provides the individual with the tools which allow the individual to create better realities,
but more often than not the direction goes wrong.

The first and foremost prerequisite for a better reality is the optimism of an individual,
in direct contrast to the sarcasm of a community,
whose ideas of right and wrong are preordained by a popular and insincere Ethics,
which noone and I mean noone takes seriously.

Literature, and not necessarily University or school, provide an alleviation not from the feeling of intellectual mediocrity,
but from intellectual mediocrity and sarcasm in actuality.
I am under the impression that music can have a similar effect,
although ideally the appreciation of both should be pursued.

Appearance and cleanliness are sometimes taken for granted and considered shallow,
although I take a different stance.
In the same way as the aforementioned fields alleviate us of our mediocrity,
so too does our image.

It is difficult to articulate exactly what is meant but I personally think this vague point is what "it all" hinges upon.
If I had to be more specific,
unto eternity, my activities should be:

Reading famous books by authors such as:
Milton, Sophocles, Beckett, Homer, Aeschylus, Euripides, Dostoevsky, Schiller, Tolstoy, Joyce, Dante, Goethe, Kafka, Borges, Nabakov and Pynchon.

I am also not uninterested in authors whose work falls into an awkward space between pulp and university fiction, such as:
Franzen, Wallace, Ellis, Dick and Gibson.

Aside from that, a general habit of listening to music, writing short stories, drawing, dressing and eating well, and keeping clean and "healthy" are preferable.

I feel almost as if I have oversimplified life,
but at the same time to shroud it in mist would be a greater crime,
where the individual is constantly searching for something he will never attain.
Someone like that will always return to a sarcastic world view,
which has been the cause of my ruin in the past and which I refuse to return to.