/lit/ - Literature

>told myself this evening after going to the gym that I should start not eating junk food because I am flabby and it rapes my bank account
>told myself that I'd almost only spend my time either studying maths or doing practical programming (there's too much to study so I'll only go for extreme theoretical or extreme practical)
>later that evening I have the epiphany of remembering the existence of Against Method by Feyerabend
>quickly go through its wiki page
>skim the Amazon reviews and the first paragraph of an 18 page Feyerabend essay
>tell myself that tomorrow I'll do all those disparate online courses in half interested
>go downstairs and have multiple chocolate doughnuts and muffins while aimlessly browsing 4chan on my phone ,
>suddenly realise I should follow my previous rules

I am beyond parody.

>why should I rhyme
>why should I follow any form
>why should I be consistent will meter
>I'm a fucking artist bitch
I'm not reading your unreadable cringey love letters you fucking cucks

https://youtu.be/vLkaaPzu9jg


>see above link
>Professor of philosophy is spouting some broad brush illogical nonsense

How the fuck can ANYONE take the academia-media-publishing industrial complex seriously any longer? Not just this video but reams of acclaimed people line up to talk shit and either prove themselves idiots or look like they're aiming their arguments at some hypothetical idiot that I'm not sure exists.

Why am I supposed to pretend that some Soho condo dwelling latte sipping liberal arts degree holder's latest short story collection contains profound philosophical truths and enlightenment and is entertaining as well?

If literature is meant to express the human condition, could you point me to the books that:

1. Talk about what it's like to be an unattractive male in an age where women have shitloads of tinder matches with Chads and it's impossible for unattractive males to get casual sex or relationships?

2. Ostracised due to either ugliness or lack of normieness

Does anyone else feel constantly cucked by their choices?

If I work hard on one thing then I am an inverse cripple cuck who will miss the wood for the trees. If I work hard on many things then I am a dilettante cuck who will never finish anything.

And so on, among many day to day choices. I feel like a cuck for not being rich, for not doing original mathematical or scientific work etc. There's always somebody important who says you're a cuck if you try hard, or don't try hard, or work on one thing, or work on many things, or have a full time job, or become an entrepreneur, or if you haven't read that book etc.

1. What is your life philosophy? Do you have goals? Do you have no goals? Do you schedule your days or do you view this is acting like a dehumanised machine?

It seems like a lot of life advice tries to ignore the cold hard fact that, everything else being equal, working more increases your chance of success but cucks your soul by making you overly specialised. People will insult you for not reading book X or learning language Y or watching opera Z. This idea of life enrichment is an obvious marketing gimmick as well.

2. Is anyone else like me in that they view a lot of their actions through faux psychological terms? For example, I wonder whether doing work with my phone nearby and on, even if I don't us it, makes me dumber because it is potentially usable within a second and I get distracted. Do I need to put my debit card away and use cash to avoid wasting money on junk food? Will thinking confident thoughts let me do more reps in the gym?

I have been cucked out of my free will by my own stupidity and marketing. I don't even have confidence in my ability to avoid junk food or sit down and do work anymore.

3. This is maybe similar to 1, but is anyone else simply tempted to ignore all of history / philosophy before 1950 and derive your life philosophy from there? I think this can be called embracing modernism but i don't know the terminology. I'm sure I will be trolled for even mentioning this but it leads to some "edgy" thoughts.

Why care about "great rulers" if all they did was fight over borders that are irrelevant today? War is just nukes and third world playground fights these days, get over it.

Why should I give a shit about the "enriching" effects of art when it won't increase my bank balance and we've seen the popularity of art forms wane? It's easy for the Greeks to spend time on things when they lived in a stagnant society with no social mobility and all the donkey work done by slaves.

Why not roid, get a nose job, and show off on Instagram?

I once made the mistake of opening up emotionally to a woman (note: DO NOT DO THIS). I tried my best to explain to her how disgusting and unwanted I felt, and all she did was pretend to empathize.

>I know how you feel, anon. Only a few guys liked me in high school, and I felt super ugly.

I wanted to punch her in the teeth. People say I have a difficult time with empathy, but I genuinely believe women are completely incapable of empathy with a man, especially a beta man.

Can you recommend a book that will restore my faith in the novel after I have been disappointed by the limitations of tv and cinema?

But you MUST NOT recommend pomo lolsorandumb bs

>see people on the internet talking about books that they enjoy
>tfw I don't enjoy books because I'm forcing myself through boring as fuck canon novels
>tfw they're garbage but someone might call me a pleb if I haven't read them
>tfw Victorian novels are really stodgy pieces of shit but people keep wanking over them
>tfw Plato was stupid
>tfw Dickens is like reading one of Grandpa Simpson's interminable stories
>Dostoevsky is just "DUDE GROW UP AND ACCEPT JESUS LMAO"
>tfw clearly see how the Munchhausen Trilemma allows me to disregard anything but I still force myself to read boring as fuck philosophical works
>tfw all the 50s to 90s post modern books are unfunny, long winded, lolsorandumb pieces of shit
>tfw Pynchon simply could not put together a coherent work ("Tee-hee, what is coherent? What is not? Look I'm so smart, my Wikipedia info dump chapters prove it! Now watch my mountain of nuthugging pseud fans defend me by appealing to the establishments that post modernism calls in to question!")
>DFW's this is water speech, even after years of Amherst grown (genuinely intelligent in an analytical way) intellectualism, folds immediately back in to the sea of trivial platitudes, indistinguishable from the most banal Mid West fly over state soccer mom self help, and DFW knew it all too well

>you start reading a novel by a famous classic author
>you're bored as hell
>there are still 400 out of 700 pages left

Do you stop reading it? How do you explain yourself to others if you give up on it? Are you ashamed? Are you worried that you're now considered a pleb?

Does anyone else experience second hand existential dread? The pointlesness of my own life is obvious and is white noise at this point. But I look around me and see people living pointless lives as well. I don't even mean just people on the street. Rich people who donate money to pointless causes etc.

Why do so many people of Jewish descent aggressively promote a lower percentage of whites in first world countries and... I was going to list a load of problems but they basically all follow from the lack of whites.

Does this have ANY precedent?

How can philosophy boil down to anything other than assertions + marketing when the Munchhausen trilemma clearly shows that all philosophies are based on feelings?

What's the best book with the most unintentionally bad writing or unintelligent writer? Fiction or non fiction

/lit/, I graduated from university last year and I'm living with my parents and working part time at a warehouse job. For many months I have been telling my much older and working class co-workers about Marxism and economics etc. But then one of them saidd (as best as I can remember):

>"Aye, Anon ya speccy cunt, stop wi' this preachin' aboot Newliberalism an' all 'at shite. No one forces anyone 'a do any'in, go'ernments are voted in by people who all ken about 'eir votes. Newlibralism is just what 'appens naturally like.

How should I respond the next time I see him? And should I ask our manager (I haven't been telling him my views) if we can join a trade union?

I Just turned 29 and I'm reading Siddhartha by Hermen Hesse and Dirk Diggler by Douglas Adams. The next books on my list are Dune by Herbert and Introduction to Epistemology by Robert Dildos.

Should I just kill myself at this point? Am I even redeemable at as a pleb?

>In b4 read Stiner or Camus

Has anyone else cucked themselves hard with their pomo mentality? I can't watch a movie without thinking about who the actors are, ny patheticness for funding Hollywood normiescum, being in the cinema alone etc. Similarly for books I always think about whether the author is spreading their views through fiction, is using the book as barely concealed memoir, my patheticness for buying a book instead of tormenting etc.

How do you avoid stop fear of missing out? When I read I feel bad for not doing something to earn money. I feel bad when I read, for example, one book about Napoleon because I don't immediately read more about him to get more than a dilettante level of knowledge about the topic. I just go to something new and forget everything I read.

Are there any worthwhile productivity books by people who actually did stuff rather than only write productivity books?

Do you think there are any non fiction books written within the last 20 years that will be classics?

When you read a novel and you find yourself enjoying it and wanting to read it immediately when you get home, do you feel guilty about it being a pleb book?

I will now stop reading any author that published their first book within the past 35 years. That Mira Gonzalez topic convinced me.

Any field with more women than men (or > 40 % women in practice) is just not worthwhile.

The white knights who come in here will prove my point

Am I getting bored of books or have I just happened to choose boring ones? I'm on the verge of giving up The fortress of solitude after 100 pages. I'm not interested in finishing Island by Aldous Huxley, after reading 50 pages. It seems like only a utopian manifesto

I've read t Am I getting bored of books or have I just happened to choose boring ones? I'm on the verge of giving up The fortress of solitude after 100 pages. I'm not interested in finishing Island by Aldous Huxley, after reading 50 pages. It seems just like a utopian manifesto

I've read the first three chapters of a tale of two cities and that was as dull as expected, though dickens serialised his work so I won't feel like a pleb when I read under 20 pages a day. he first three chapters of a tale of two cities and that was as dull as expected, though dickens serialised his work so I won't feel like a pleb when I read under 20 pages a day.

I thought that giving up caffeine and junk food would help my attention span, but seemingly not

>going home after 9 pm
>go past pub
>tonnes of new students there ready to debauch the place up and have unprotected sex and the times of their lives
>going home to my books which are written by trust fund babbies that will never care about me

Where is the consolation meant to come from? Does society try to shame us in to "being cultured" in order to subsidise the upper classes who have the free time and connections to create / market the art in the first place? I have been thinking of only reading immediately entertaining books to avoid this. My point is that I live in a society which doesn't care about me, so should I act more selfishly?

Another question to the students of the human condition (kek) on lit: I've never even flirted with a girl and I'm 24 and went through uni and I've never had attention from the opposite sex. How can I see any future possible relationships as authentic when women, given the freedom to be authentic at university, lacking the social pressure to look for beta providers, or any permanent relationships at all, free to only flit from Chad to Chad, never gave me any attention at all? Even if we ignore my own problems and generalise, how do other older men be with women who wouldn't have given them a thought when they had freedom? Is this the mental or emotional equivalent of having a fat gf?