/lit/ - Literature

>>2950544
I agree. I just opt out on getting rich and just mooch of others. Being a fox is more fun than being a lion.

>>2772045
>Any person can attain what they want, as long as they have the ability to do so. I can grow my own tree in a pot that I can make myself and fashion those burnt twigs into pencils (charcoal).

Try finding some resources without an owner in this world. Impossible. The system is so that everything is already owned. To acquire something you want means that you can either take it in spite of the system (theft) or do as they want, namely selling your services for an amount of currency they deem sufficient. In a world where everything already belongs to someone else, everyone is born into serfdom.

When you first need to work for a wage in order to gain capital, you are at the mercy of those providing your wages. If the wages are low enough and the prices are high enough to keep you earning just enough to get by, you are in the position of de facto slavery.

There's nothing just about trade. It's merely a game of power relations just like everything else. You are trying to gain as much as possible while giving as little as possible.

>>2662779
You can't. Concepts in itself are the only way in which dualism exist. Singularity and multiplicity are mere descriptions of certain patterns in the flux. But there are no actual separate entities. It's like saying "this is where Libya ends and Tunisia starts". It's true in the sense of agreed on conventions, but there is no actual change in the desert at the border.

>>2596337
>implying exercise and healthy eating grant you immortality
>implying you have never had a headache or a fever or bumped your toe

Disease and suffering. You are not above it. You have very human limitations, because you are a human. That is what I meant. So your are still shackled by circumstance.

>The key to life is shrewd resignation and being generally laid back guy.
On this I agree. I've always found the trickster archetype to be the most inspiring one.

>>2580817
More like survival of the /lit/test amirite?

Society can only exist because of deception. The only alternative is basically taking up the Cynic robe and staff. If you are willing to make such a sacrifice for authenticity that is great. I'd rather trick my way through life with the rest of them.

You talk about facilitating others' stupidy, I'd rather call it helping myself to what I want in spite of them. You should look upon deception as something you do for your own benefit, not for theirs. Then it can become a quite interesting game.