/lit/ - Literature

What did he mean by this?

>>15189264
happiness as a goal of life is a brainlet meme
life is a long fucking scary road full of pain and boredom which go nowhere. but occasionally you find crumbs of happiness.

>>14969618
buddha preached celibacy my faggot

>>14721609
you're not alone

Capitalism is so fucking ill. Everyone knows that. Sadness, emptiness, stress, anxiety, schizophrenia, loneliness, meaningless, anger, nihilism, anti-natalism, and whatever other pathology penetrates all of our lives so deeply.

Are not all of these things part of capitalist living? That is, the alienation of labour, the belief that the work we do has no positive affect on the world, the knowledge that we have no freedom to choose what to do with our time? The anxiety inducing threat that is to be kicked out onto the street, and starved, despite the economic power of the world being far, far greater than what would be required to ensure this is impossible? Doesn't this terrible irrationality inspire a profound despising of the world, that there is so much power, yet it does little good?

Doesn't it feel like the world has become this horrible machine that man lacks control of? Doesn't this deprive us of the affirmation of being that labor should provide?

No one ever defends capitalism except by saying "yeah well there isn't any other option" or "I make money. I dont care about anyone else. fuck you. suck my dick." Aren't both of these reactions just unbearable? The belief that humans are not in control of the very system they created? Or even worse, the only answer is to become a psychopath?

Tell me where I am wrong, please, im begging you. Reading Marx has made me resent the world at a far deeper level than I ever did, and I really can't stand it.

>>13789616