/lit/ - Literature

I know many feel unwell, but there's no political solution to our problem. You may turn to politics out of a need to address that which longs within the spirit, but know that nothing short of radical change, one which goes beyond the ballot and overhauls the entire system, can solve our problem. What we need is a collapse of consumer culture, to forget about perpetual economic growth and return to a sustainable way of living, one in harmony with nature. We need to value each other for reasons outside of our worth to a callous economic system, reduce the hours we work so that we may have more time to spend with our friends and family, destroy social media and indict those responsible for its proliferation, overhaul the values spread by our communication systems, relearn to treasure our moments and not the image of a moment. The heroes we now have are false: genetically enhanced sports stars and narcissistic rappers, celebrities who believe in only themselves and who preach only for themselves -- politicians, businessmen, and academics who value only growth metrics, abstracted away from the pain of the average man. They'll call us extremists, but that is a compliment. What's extreme to a world such as this, can only be good.

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>>14859857
>Everyone should be forcefully changed according to my whims and if I fail I'll kill myself

This is the next level

>>14777530
>Sincerity is something terrifying, disturbing. It means to unleash the monster within us, to put it on display.

Yes.

>>14767321
This. If you disagree, you probably have low T and are a bugman. Might want to get that check out.

>>14771633
Still end up spending your youth slaving away. Those are the years you should be living, not studying.

>>14733774
https://youtu.be/okkccaekiHQ?t=968

>>14645395
If anything, he was anything but lazy. Ted actually lived what he preached and took the consequences of believing so strongly in an idea to their eventual conclusion. He goes beyond what an artist and writer does, who in most cases just sit around and fetishize a social problem in the name of their art. Honestly, it takes some fucking balls and I respect that. Another similar man comes to mind, also popular with edgy losers. Of course, murder for a cause is always wrong and you should not do it. Let these people be curiosities.

>>14573740
Yep.

>>14460598
Imagine not reading the image in the post. Right click and rotate it after download. I don't admire thinkers, nor waste my time with such things as "admiration". I respect doers in principle, as people who live by their words.

>>14351779
lol fuck you