/lit/ - Literature

>>19038397
No. Read books.

>>18622883
It’s one thing to be passionate about your values and be righteously angry when they’re broken. But it’s another thing to be obsessed with problems and circumstances vastly out of your control. It is ok to be angry at a rapist black man. But letting your heart boil like a volcano won’t undo the rape, nor will it deport the blacks, nor will it cause a race war.
Another example. You and Stacy are texting and it’s going great. Then all of a sudden she stops replying. You scroll through your conversation, hunting for the moment you faltered, the instant she became uncomfortable. You could worry and obsess over her silence, waste your energy and time. Or you can mutter “bitch” under your breath, accept the fact you were rejected, and move on.
I think it’s the latter mindset OP’s looking for. He’s invested in his views, but he’s through with excessive emotion. He wants to get shit done (I hope), not stew and wring his hands and worry.
Maybe I’m mind reading, idk. Just something to think about.

>>18513058
How would you describe it, anon?

Please explain, homos. My penis is completely limp unlike your faggot cocks I bet.

Is the union of opposites evil or is it transcendentally redeemed?

I'm trying to recall what's the name of a book I once read at my high school's library many years ago. The book had some memorable fragments for me at the time and I would like to read it now that I'm older.

All I remember is the title had something with "Lisboa" in it, something like "A train to Lisboa". And in some chapter the protagonist is on a taxi taking to do a needlework of cocodrile cloth (like Lacoste) into a piece of clothing. And in some part later on a gypsy woman appears.

It was in spanish but I can't recall the name of the author so idk if it was a translation or the author was spanish-speaking.

pls help /lit/

>order books
>spend the entire day refreshing package tracking instead of reading

You know those silly writings and drawings you might find on the walls of a public bathroom? The kinds that say things like "Diogenes was here" or "Plato sucks dick" with a picture of a crudely drawn penis next to them? Well, my good Socrates, 4chan is exactly that, except bigger and more elaborate, where people actually partake in conversation on top of pictures of penises and inane comments. Anyone can read the writings of others and then contribute if they wish to do so. However, it is most often not the place of the wise and the valiant, but instead of the bored and the reclusive who have no other responsibilities taking their time, or feel insecure about the state of their lives. Sometimes a learned man walks into this metaphorical bathroom we call 4chan and contributes to the conversation in a worthwhile manner, but most of the time the goal of the conversation is just to be humorous or to enrage other people reading your comments by being as nonsensical as you can for comedic effect.

Guys, intellectually I'm all spooked out. I can't stand philosophy because of all the unfalsifiable garbage. Many fields like economics etc are just applied common sense and stamp collecting. I see novels as nothing but entertainment despite pretentious people claiming life / philosophical insights and tonnes of people will consider you a disgusting plebeian if you don't initially read shitloads of boring as fuck canon novels.

I think I am painfully adapting to the idea of the Internet age / information overload by abandoning any pretension that I can be an all rounder or even dilettante in everything. There are ten trillion books called "Introduction to [broad and important field]", even if you only have one of each field.

History is similar to novels. Shitloads of reading along with a shitload pretension thrown on top telling you that you truly cannot no nuthin unless you have an in depth understanding of the Greeks / Romans / Christianity / USA / WW1 / WW2 / financial systems / or shitloads of other topics I can't stand it. And then there's current events. I don't care about climate change, outer space, inequality, China, the EU, applied psychology, the education system, diversity, Russia, South America, refugees, nutrition, mental health, and more. Admitting just one of these would make me an iredeemable idiot, no doubt.

Has anyone else had similar thoughts? The spooks are powerful and must be removed but their removal leaves your mind in a promordial state that is more susceptible to spooks than before.

I go to the city centre and see people shopping and the streets are busy, which is comforting compared to when they're empty, but walking through then brings no epiphanies.

I am so past watching movies or tv shows, even ones that pander to "edgy" young males. I just about read books but only because society tells me I should, though I don't derive much enjoyment

And obviously I have an existential crisis but /lit/ is fucking pathetic in demanding that anyone who has one should immediately "grow up" and become a monotheist and wagecuck. I fucking hate wagecucking. Seeing attractive young people is humiliating. I tell myself every day that I'll soon work intensely on one thing but I can't bear to do this. If you're really good at one thing then there are people lining up to call you a tard for not watching opera or being able to run a marathon or whatever shit. So I do nothing.

Every "thinker" is at their core an utter fucking fraud. Nietzche is a Tony Robbins tier Rorschach test. Science and mathematics provide non trivial insights but only in ultra specialised ways that probably require autism to appreciate. I listen to In Our Time podcasts and Bret Easton Ellis podcasts and I think at heart everyone cares about nothing more than social drama.

I think we all need to man up and admit that money, youth, videogames, and good looks are as good as it gets. But not everyone gets.