/lit/ - Literature

>>6480498
>Okay, but if you make no plan whatsoever, then you don't step out of the social situation where you are.
You can make changes as you please, you don't need to plan some sort of imaginary person or life in advance that you wish to become.

>point is that change and improvement makes live interesting and joyful and you must measure that with respect to some scale.
I don't agree. In fact, I think that this is one of the prime ingredients to unhappiness in a lot of people. Seeing life as some linear thing that has to process in a completely arbitrarily defined upwards fashion, often one that rarely corresponds to how things actually unfold. It's like applying careerism to existence itself.

>The scale is a feature of the "narrative" you just have to create - otherwise I think boredom with life and then a sort of depression will await.
The boredom stems exactly from this arbitrary notion of what a life should be and then not living up to it, feeling as if you have 'not enough' life, whereas someone who 'lives himself out' to his hearts content without placing his actual life in comparison with some imaginary alternative will be more likely to play around joyfully, like a child.

I think the two pictures I posted (>>6480425 >>6480484) are essential to the way in which Stirner can be illuminative. At least that's the part of his work that struck me most.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLzEgrHKxNM

>>6436088
>I sing because -- I am a singer. But I use you for it because I -- need ears.

Is the self a spook?

"What is most uncanny about the self is that no one has yet been able to present the least evidence of it. Like the soul, that figure of speech which has long since been snickered out of existence, the self may be felt but never be found. It is a spectral tapeworm that takes its reality from a host organism and grows along with the physical matter in which it is encased."

It begins

Someone talking about morals?

>>6352987
>society

Doesn't exist.

How is Buddhist/Daoist wu wei any different fro letting the Market take care of a problem?

>>6325586
>implying stirner wasn't a buddha

Why do our Marxists always assume that anyone who disagrees with them is a troll?

>>6298686

To be sure, for the teaching and embody- ing of virtuous habits a series of effects of virtue are displayed, which make it appear that virtue and private advantage are closely related, — andthere is in fact such a relationship ! Blindly furious diligence, for example, the typical virtue of an instrument, is represented as the way to riches and honour, and as the most beneficial antidote to tedium and passion : but people are silent concern- ing its danger, its greatest dangerousness. Educa- tion proceeds in this manner throughout : it endeavours, by a series of enticements and advan- tages, to determine the individual to a certain mode of thinking and acting, which, when it has become habit, impulse and passion, rules in him and over him, in opposition to his ultimate advantage^ but " for the general good." How often do I see that blindly furious diligence does indeed create riches and honours, but at the same time deprives the organs of the refinement by virtue of which alone an enjoyment of riches and honours is possible ; so that really the main expedient for combating tedium and passion, simultaneously blunts the senses and makes the spirit refractory towards new stimuli ! (The busiest of all ages — our age — does not know how to make anything out of its great diligence and wealth, except always more and more wealth, and more and more diligence; there is even more genius needed for laying out wealth than for acquiring it!— Well, we shall have our "grandchildren"!) If the educa- tion succeeds, every virtue of the individual is a . public utility, and a private disadvantage in respect to the highest private end,— probably some psycho- aesthetic stunting, or even premature dissolution. One should consider successively from the same standpoint the virtues of obedience, chastity, piety, and justice. The praise of the unselfish, self- sacrificing, virtuous person— he, consequently, who does not expend his whole energy and reason for his own conservation, development, elevation, furtherance and augmentation of power, but lives as regards himself unassumingly and thoughtlessly, perhaps even indifferently or ironically,— this praise has in any case not originated out of the spirit of unselfishness ! The " neighbour " praises unselfish- ness because he profits by it! If the neighbour were "unselfishly" disposed himself, he would reject that destruction of power, that injury for his advantage, he would thwart such inclinations in their origin, and above all he would manifest his unselfishness just by not giving it a good name!


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>>6293500
Pure spookeology

>know that productivity is just a spook
>still feel bad sometimes when looking back on how much time I spend in leisure

Control your spooks or be haunted for life!

How has /lit/ dealt with applying their chosen philosophical principles in life?

>>6282668
Keep dreaming, buddy.

What's wrong with monarchism, other than nothing?

It's commencing

>>6219575

Is 'determining what is a spook and what is not' a spook in itself ?

I've always wondered how close is the Creative Nothing to the Buddhist "Not-self"/emptiness view.

>>4622814
Why are you asking us?

>>4598454
>stirner
>either life affirming or life denying

pls don't discredit st. max, he's of perfect neutral winks

>>4353082

pretty immature

read more and grow up

Bumping with the original question.

Does anyone have have that greentext story of HP Lovecraft talking shit? It uses his style and I think it ends with something like "Let's see what beast of macabre come out"