/lit/ - Literature

I don't want to read books. I want love from others and happiness.
I now read books just because they are books, but the first reason I read a book traced back to self-development of being more likeable, original, socially acceptable person.
I had some success with "original". But the other two miserably failed. Got worse even. And time is holding me captive.
What should I do? Has anyone ever been in this situation?

No intellectual had predicted the cancel culture until it came out. What the hell does an intellectual even do?

I tried to write, but I didn't have the willpower, I didn't have the time to write when it is a several day peak of exuberance, and I had a lot of real life work to do, and I lost the direction of getting money and life, so I lost the meaning of writing things, but now the writing feels like my only achievement, or the only way I can show others that I've tried in my life, so I cannot decide to whether keep or not doing this.
What should I do?
>Picrel is literally me btw

If the most reddit book ever written is Ready Player One, What is the most 4chan book ever written?

>>20791937
>>All art must be entertaining
Yes for you. Even Borges said it you stupid faggot

>I believe that the phrase ‘obligatory reading’ is a contradiction in terms; reading should not be obligatory. Should we ever speak of 'obligatory pleasure'? Pleasure is not obligatory, pleasure is something we seek. 'Obligatory happiness'! [...] If a book bores you, leave it; don’t read it because it is famous, don’t read it because it is modern, don’t read a book because it is old. If a book is tedious to you, leave it, even if that book is 'Paradise Lost' — which is not tedious to me — or 'Don Quixote' — which also is not tedious to me. But if a book is tedious to you, don't read it; that book was not written for you. Reading should be a form of happiness, so I would advise all possible readers of my last will and testament—which I do not plan to write— I would advise them to read a lot, and not to get intimidated by writers' reputations, to continue to look for personal happiness, personal enjoyment. It is the only way to read.

Is there a book or video that explains incel even a little bit like "kill the normies"?

>>17234227
reading this the first time hit me like a train, i couldnt shut up about it for like a year. then i internalized it and improved

tfw christian accelerationism is the living incarnate answer to pic related

2015 era lit

ITT: pic related

>>12529697
ouch.

also can't believe no one's posted Pic Related yet.

>>12520597
whats the /lit/ equivalent of this image

>>12469707 >>12469696 >>12469936 >>12470068 >>12470072 >>12470202
This cyclic self-flagellation from introspecting and finding narcissism leads to more underground-man-type thinking and is completely anti-productive. Which I think was part of the point dosto was trying to make in NfU.

It's a swirling vortex that sucks you in. It's like putting a microphone too close to a speaker, except with your consciousness. Each tiny epsilon of reasoning is coherent, rational and sensible but then the instant you zoom out and look at what these sorts of epiphanies and revelations of self are doing to your life you see them for the incoherent monstrosity of overabstract slop they are. More evil than the evil they claim to detect in the first place.

Here are some "Epiphanies and Revelations of Self":
> I am trying to stop being narcissistic only because as a selfish narcissist, I just want to learn to conceal my narcissism as this is expedient and self-serving.
> Realizing the above point, in and of itself is narcissism, as is this realization, ad infinitum.
> This entire post is written with the underlying idea that I have overcome a struggle which my inferiors have not.
> Relating to underground man, even in self-loathing, is a result of immaturity and grandeur. No better than projecting onto Rick Sanchez
> I am using the word "I" too much in this post as a result of only thinking about myself
> People see in others what they know of themselves. That bad thing I thought about X is actually a bad thing about MYSELF.

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As a result of indulging in and examining these types of thought I have become completely paralyzed. I am physically slow, can't focus, constantly dizzy, constantly tired, can't get any work done, can't get out of bed, can't do laundry, can't cook for myself (diet is mostly mcchickens), hermitic. A normal day for me involves waking up at 9, writhing around until 12pm trying to fall back asleep, dragging myself out of bed to a Starbucks where I sit mindlessly refreshing my Instagram followers feed scoping my oneitis' likes (she doesn't know my name) until it closes at 10pm, drag myself home and try and form a coherent thought and until around 2 or 3 am when I pass out on the couch. Fuck even writing this is nauseating.

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Very glad to have come out of being the sort of person in pic related and the above paragraph by IGNORING "self awareness" and NOT ATTEMPTING TO IDENTIFY "crypto-narcissisms" in myself or others. I am still sad and lonely, but I think I have escaped the underground man's plague for now.

The solution for me has been to instead think about things that are POSITIVE (not positive "happy", positive as in "extant."). sometimes its hard because the real world is so repulsive ugly and mundane. Still better than underground man symptoms. Examples of POSITIVE things:
> Working out
> Math
> Projects
> What happened in that TV show episode
> What happened in the book you're reading
> What am I going to do now/today/tomorrow

>>12419873
same. shit.

red scare

>>12338901

>>12293849

>>12251649
modernism is "make it new", tearing down traditionalist ideals and aesthetics and replacing them with weird modernism

postmodernism in contrast to modernism defies ideals. instead of making it new, postmodernism internalizes the idea of not making anything anything

thats how i understand it at least

How does Dostoevsky manage to hit such indefensible marks on contemporary people's character when he's aiming from all the way back in the mid 1800s??

> Notes from Underground
>> Underground Man

> Crime and Punishment
>> Raskolnikov
>> Luzhin
>> The cuckold roommate lmao

> Literally every character from Brothers Karamazov, but especially
>> Ivan
>> Dmitri
>> Kolya