/lit/ - Literature

>talking to a family member about the classes he’s taking next semester
>He’s taking a Harry Potter class
Why are universities offering classes on books that did not have any thought put into them?
There are so many great books to read and they pick something with the depth of a puddle?
AGGGGGGH

>>11634558

>at some point in my life I will have to ask out a girl either in person or online and she will laugh at me, reject me, feel superior to me, tell her friends, and people I know will make fun of me and no amount of Stoicuckoldry will trick me in to not feeling bad and humiliated about it, especially when I know they all crave Chads and fuck ten everyday and have lives on easymode

Every discussion about philosophy seems to be either discussing the "true" definitions of terms (even if the discussion participants don't know it), masturbating in a pseudo intellectual way about the history of philosophy, or flailing about within the infinitely large space of unfalsifiable ideas while being unaware that there are infinitely more possibilities.

How the hell have people not realised that all philosophical axioms and criteria (and criteria for criteria) are arbitrarily chosen?

When did you realise that women lived life on extreme easy mode and living life on autopilot was asking to be used up and spat out by corporations?

When did you realise that scientism has replaced religion among stupid people? When did you realise that social scientists are the new priests and witch doctors?

When did you realise that there are no books that "the elites" wanted to hide from you and the opposite was much closer to the truth, where the surfeit of proclaimed "essential" books was used to stymie critical thinking? "How can you question policy X when you haven't read 1000 pages of Plato and Locke? How dare you try to separate an idea from pointless historical context?"

When did you realise that literature, like all dying art forms, had become primarily a social signalling mechanism for pseudo intellectuals?

Why is being curious good? Why is reading lots of books good when information presented in a book length document is a cultural artefact?

It seems that stuff like being well read or "curious" or having a "thirst for knowledge" is marketing made to milk consumerwhores. You never see these people doibg mathematical proofs. If it isn't knowledge that can be consumed, displayed, and discretely packaged then they don't care. And nobody markets this to you, of course

It's not even just vacuous business people who extol this shit.

Every single leisure activity ultimately ends up as some sort of work. Reading is no longer about entertainment, it's mainly used as a pseudo intellectual social signalling mechanism

How do I stop feeling guilty about not working non stop? Apart from things all humans do plus going to the gym, I feel guilty about any of my habits. And I have no goals.

I want to read books but I feel guilty about reading a set number of pages a day. I am worried about being called a pleb for not reading ten trillion boring Western canon novels. I feel like an ADD pleb for rarely reading more than 60 pages at a time. I hate that I'm more likely to put a book down at the end of a chapter.

Similarly for working. I know I could always be working to become better off. I know that people who talk about taking breaks are just lying to themselves. I feel bad for not having the willpower necessary to work non stop on one thing for 10 hours. If I work on one thing then I miss the big picture. If I work on many things I am a dilettante who doesn't achieve anything.

And the funny thing is that I'm a Stirnerite. When you stay unspooked then everyone else's belief system feels like a personal attack. Fuck these people who say that X is so important. X is always working hard / enjoying yourself / focusing on one thing / focusing on many things / reading history / classics / philosophy / other shit.

The awful thing is that I know everyone else is a fraud. That NFL player who everyone loves and says is hardworking has never read a book. That mathematics professor known as a genius is a disgusting dyel. That literary figure who goes on about Shakespeare being a god doesn't know any maths or science greater than an 18 year old yet claims to be worldly. That billionaire who goes on about humanity's big issues does nothing but write checks for people who make social media apps.

>>9059928
>As a female