/lit/ - Literature

I can't focus on writing. Unless I feel a positive enthusiasm pulling me towards it, I am just too distracted to focus. I currently keep switching between chrome tabs or music, looking for easy encounters with something interesting. I guess I need to clear my mind and mute all distractions. It doesn't help that my friend is messaging me. Or that I haven't written in ages. Or that I am trying to write something I never have before.
I feel like I am going to bungle this, but I want to nail it from the start. Here goes nothing. First, my friend's messages, I guess. Then, a brief meditation. Then, hopefully, high quality writing.

>>21665811
Such is the accursed fate of the scribbler :P

IWNBAGM (I will never be a great man)

why write a book that no one's going to read

Biathanatos is a Christian defense of suicide, giving examples from the Bible.

Greek philoshoper Hegesias of Cyrene supposedly wrote a book that made so many people kill themselves that it was banned

From wikipedia:
None of this, however, is as strong as the testimony of Cicero,[4] who claims that Hegesias wrote a book called Death by Starvation (Greek: ἀποκαρτερῶν), in which a man who has resolved to starve himself is introduced as representing to his friends that death is actually more to be desired than life, and that the gloomy descriptions of human misery which this work contained were so overpowering that they inspired many people to kill themselves, in consequence of which the author received the surname of Death-persuader (Peisithanatos). This book was published at Alexandria, where he was, in consequence, forbidden to teach by king Ptolemy II Philadelphus (285-246 BC).

>tfw I will most likely look like this as an adult
pls fucking kill me.

>read 1500 pages of LNs/WNs this month
>barely read any actual literature

the least worst, the second last. he chose mass-culture abstinence on 4chan just after he chose to be born. he chose never to leave. the great replacement (for human contact), the great debasement (take your hand off your face). don't forget you're here forever. are you lonely? they might be watching you when you post, but if they're not, you're still watching you when you post. are you lonely? you may not belong to this, you may not allow yourself to love it, because you are being manipulated while you love it, you are being used for non-mass-culture-mass-culture while you scroll. you may not love and you may not be alone and you may not choose at all. that's why you're here. if modern medicine is criminal for keeping dead bodies alive past their due, what should we say of hiro?

>>14243406
never thought about it that way before. westerners are disgusted by the imposition of marriage arranged by their parents, but entirely comfortable with an algorithm doing the arranging for them

>>11957892
Im honestly curious to know what is it still not equal. Honestly, tell me what right now is not equal and not for the benefit of women.
Even in my engineering field of study, women are largely seen as more valuable than men here. There is almost an endless propaganda saying engineering courses that are mostly
frequented by men are a problem but a field with women as a majority is not.

Not to even mention how the fact that you simply have a hole gives you an upper hand at finding a job in my field compared to men. Companies trying to employ engineers much prefer to employ a woman with very little extracurricular stuff to a man with much better qualities.
People these days confuse the meaning of "equality" and "justice", in my opinion the status quo has been favouring women a lot more and trying to solve their problems by pushing down men, creating even more inequality

>>9823904

>ketamine induced psychotic break in which i came to understand life as fallible as a brief conversation with someone from the first word to the last (the actual meat of the convo seems to take a more symbolic lasting form) & then soon forgotten when it passes but just as easily drawn upon or started again in a new light

oddly come to feel really optimistic after this and i want to write a lot

>>9263346
>>9263364

Infinite Jest, pages 694 to 698.