/lit/ - Literature

>>4719054
>That you will in fact not be happier in the long term if you moved from living on food stamps in Detroit to owning real estate in Miami?

That's not the argument. The fact is that you will never be permanently happy -- even with the things. You will forever be running. Forever.

In essence the difference between the rich man and the poor man is their capacity to be deluded reliably, nothing more.

Unless, of course, you realize the frailty of these things and strike out on a different methodology. Both the rich and poor man might try for something a bit more firm.

>>4712887
>détournement got recuperated.
>What part of "all that is solid melts into air" do you not comprehend as false consciousness?

FINE FUCK YOU I'M JUST GOING TO BE A NIHILIST THEN

>>4700807
>the economist
>talking about sloppy research
>economics

>>4685752

Hmm, okay... good point ...

>>4675006

Philosophy of language and political philosophy are both very important. I'm not sure if he actually has a good grounding in the subject in the same capacity as a proper Dr of the subject would.

Of course, philosophy has been banalized by the natural sciences these days. Sam Harris? philosopher? Please.

>Rand
>Machiavelli
>Chomsky
>Foucault

Too soon.

Also, what the fuck, Rand?

>>3661818
>implying this happened
>implying girls even like poetry

>>3545016