/lit/ - Literature

In before a nihilistic hedonists flood into this thread asking shitty questions like "What is wrong with hedonism?"
You don't revolt against society by becoming a mindless consumer instead of actually accomplishing something, to conserve the world your ancestors built and to progress it. Cheap thrills makes you a slave to society.
Philosophers like Mills do not mean that long lasting happiness is to be in constant bliss while you're smiling and jumping around. It's to be proud of your own life and what you have done with it, you have built something that gives you happiness. Hedonism makes you regret your life and will give you a later stressful existence which is very ironic.
Your life is not about venerating, looking up to and achieving things in life for other great, dead men Like Washington or Marcus Aurelius and what they built but to conserve it, and most importantly build upon it, making it both your own and achieving your own goals so the next generation learns from you. You do it because of ego but short bliss and hedonism will only leave you with nothing.
Going your own way without any kind of god or a strong philosophy in life leaves you with emptiness and starts to put civilization in chaos like we're currently seeing now and if it continues it will fall.
Do you not want to expand our shared knowledge, work hard, fight wars for what you believe in and maybe one day explore the stars finding answers. It won't be in your lifetime but we have to conserve and progress for humans ever getting there.

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My comment wasn't about venerating, looking up to and achieving things in life for other great, dead men Like Washington or Marcus Aurelius and what they built but to conserve it, and most importantly build upon it, making it both your own and achieving your own goals so the next generation learns from you. You do it because of ego yes, but short bliss and hedonism will only leave you with nothing.
Going your own way without any kind of god or a strong philosophy in life leaves you with emptiness and starts to put civilization in chaos like we're currently seeing now and if it continues it will fall.
Do you not want to expand our shared knowledge, work hard, fight wars for what you believe in and maybe one day explore the stars finding answers. It won't be in your lifetime but we have to conserve and progress for humans ever getting there.