/lit/ - Literature

The defining characteristic of our generation is atomization. What should I read about this?
inb4 just go out talk to people
inb4 can't inb4

Btw (You)'re not a misanthrope, you just don't know people you like. People are not NPCs, you just don't talk to them. etc.

https://youtu.be/4wbWWUuw7tU?si=k8k-WoR1g3nuzsJs

must... consoom..... boks

>when i am alone, i feel lonely and i feel something in my heart, i want someone to be around from friends to family, but when i am around them, i just want to fuck off and go home
>i am feeling better when i am asleep
why? and don't say gay stuff like depression or something like that, i went to the doctor and i still feel like that.

>everything is falling apart in the World, shortages, prices are hitting the sky, poverty left and right, middle class will be gone in a decade or two, basic things will become so expensive, earth is going to shit from pollution to plastic in water/air to land infertility
how do you cöope with this ? i don't think pleasures like alcohol, drugs, sex is the answer or doomerism

>>19402835
>Epicurus going (Don't do bad things do good things sometimes pleasurable things are bad things) basically the "Minimalist philosophy" is such a mindblowing fucking concept to you?
Epicurus' calculus of pleasures conforms neither to conventional Christian morality nor to unbridled hedonism. It's not that deep, but it's not that obvious either. He also embraced the not-so-obvious atomic theory of Leucippus and Democritus which turned out to be (in some sense) correct according to modern science. He imagined the gods as being uninterested in human affairs, which was borderline atheism at the time and it showed his deep humility as a human being, while his contemporaries were so self-absorbed that they believed the gods had nothing better to do than worry about the affairs of Greece.
>For Schopenhauer I've read his books and it's literally the most basic life advice that everyone already knows inbetween his philosophy which isn't mindblowing at all
What you call "the most basic life advice" is routinely ignored by the vast majority of the population. And the idea that you should not marry and you should not reproduce isn't "basic" at all considering how many billions of people on this planet keep popping out children.
>"The Will" moves everything in the universe. Literally everyone and their mother has thought about this concept. It's nothing original or mindblowing
I seriously doubt that your mother (or anyone's mother, for that matter) has ever thought of the world in the same terms that Schopenhauer proposes. Many people nowadays (mainly those who follow Abrahamic religions) may believe that the "will" of God "moves" everything in the universe, but that has nothing to do with what Schopenhauer says. It's not even about "moving"; the Will "is" everything, it is not the thing that "moves" everything. Your mother (or anyone else's mother) believe she is a different being than you; she has no conception of both you and her being a manifestation of one and the same Will which multiplies itself in space and time because it wants itself and so it has to devour itself by creating multiple instances of itself who both compete and cooperate with one another.
Did you even read the book, or just the Wikipedia article?

How do you find some happiness in today modern World? Seem like everything is Hedonism, escapism or both.

Guys I am building a big library of quotes, quotes which I really liked. So what are the best quotes you ever read? Please post them.
Hit me with your best.

(Pic kinda related)

Min/max

Does it make you smarter to do things in hyper particular ways because they work better for you? In regards to studying and retention of things learned.

If you had to be such an autistic sperg in order to get to the point you're at, are you really that smart? Assume that normal behavior would provide you 90% of the same result.

Any philosophical texts that discuss the question, if hard things are good in the long term? This is sort of a meme nowadays and "self discipline" and "getting out of your comfort zone" is trending in all the self help books. But I want to know if this is actually true and if the struggle is worth it. Only thing I read that comes close to this is ISAIF, but that's not the kind of book I am looking for. Also don't recommend me Jocko Wilink or some other navy seal copypasta author.

>>16357106
My guess is a form of nihilism to extreme and lacks of Critical thinking, think about it, if you;re born in Western Europe/Canada/US/Australia you will have a better life than 90% of the planet's population, also most of the people who hate their own culture and history are kids who grew up in good houses, so they had everything, so they started to find or make problems where there are no problems.
Further more we need to consider brainwashing in schools and universities.

recommend literature that can heal pessimists

>>15448082
Because post WW2 Germany is shitty.

Why does it feel like the end of me will be suicide. Why does it feel like i cannot lie to myself about being a good person with strong values.

Diffusion would be a fitting way to describe what's always happening.

I have seen some people who read a book, a movie or hear a song and their whole personality shift in the blink of an eye.

How come there are people who are able to feel things in such a grand scheme? It is solely being a bit on the schizo side? How is that "mode" to be achieved?

Lit that explains why and how a handfull of people feel things -or rather- can feel things to an such extend, that causes them to shift completely?

Im thinking Ted for instance. Or Christopher McCandless or some greate scientist or whatever.

The fact that i will never reach a deep feeling of something is slowly killing me. Be it bad or good, whatever it may be.

Im thinking of the black monk of chehkov as the best analogy i can come up with.

>>13897866
Normies are incapable to empathize with eaten animals. They believe that since they were able to have a "good" life (or so they think) then everyone else can. Most likely the eaten animal just didn't try hard enough to bootstrap himself into survival.

>>12254166
>the universe is two weird boars making out

I fucking knew it!

I've read many Eastern religious doctrines including Taoism, Vedic Hinduism, and the Pali canon of Buddhism, yet the philosophy of Western religions, specifically Christianity, still confounds me.

Simply put, I just don't understand the philosophy behind Christianity and the meaning of God. Can you describe what the philosophy behind Christianity is? What are some essential readings to better understand the viewpoint of a devout Christian and how they feel towards life and God?

why are stupid people always so mad at the idea of bias or a biased perspective

>>11072048

>Babbys first moral Literature expirience

Life is what you make out of it. If you like to suffer in life, you will suffer. Thats it.
Humans are basicly build to adapt and overcome. You are built to see all the negative Things first, cause those things are meant to be solved. If you decide to not solve your Problems you see, youre not acting as evolution intended you to act. Then basicly youre not functional and should neck yourself.

Are there any serious books or essays about animal ethics/veganism?