/lit/ - Literature

>>22017874

>>20199842

>>18870167
Stop using society's measuring stick. Remember it only grays you the feeling superior to some by placing you below an ideal of others. We make sacred so we can desecrate and vice versa.

>>16822489
Retroactively refuted by reality

Fact. Basically, he is the founder of optimistic nihilism

Are there any books that endorse optimistic nihilism? I’m looking for both fiction and non-fiction.

is this true?

>>11844067

I know, it kicks ass

How do you reconcile the idea that you're an intellectual with the refusal to acknowledge that change is an inherent part of any medium?

I see this on /lit/ a lot. Anything that deviates from an established literary rubric will get fucking lambasted. It'll get reamed, for being any assortment of meme buzzwords.

Isn't endorsing stagnation an antithesis to intellectualism?

>>9920314

>>9880414
why is peterson such a cuck?

Why do people generally assume that life has an instrinsic meaning?
And if you believed that, why would you want to know the answer? With that kind of logic the answer will completely ruin your existence.
To me it seems that nihilism is the only possible way of dealing with the absence of God, by embracing the fact that nothing matters we are able to appreciate the pleasures that life gives us, and if we never feel enough joy to make up for the pain and sadness that life also gives there's always suicide.
What does /lit/ think about this?

Can you people of /lit/ suggest me some good book about nihilism?

>>8559207
The stereotype.

>>8496223
i didnt upload the fucking picture god dammit

lets see if i get right this time

>>8474876
Depends.

Is it depression-depression? As in, actual bipolarity? No book can help you with that, take your fucking meds.

Is it more like ennui? This guy is right in that case >>8482554 , except I'd skip Stirner and Nietzsche and just jump on 'Hauer. The former two, while certainly somewhat pragmatic, still give you some motivation that will not really help - yeah, we should strive for the übermensch, but we'll never get there, so if you're already down, knowing you'll never be Kal El will just keep you down. 'Hauer, on the other hand, is a fatalist. The pessimist par excellence. and if you get to terms with said fatalism, with such levels of pessimism, you'll reach pic related.

After 'Hauer, I'd recommend some buddhism. Bhikkhu Bodhi's work is pretty good.

How can i read faster?

>>7813295
get over it emo

>>7782555
People tend to think nihilists are melodramatic, emo-type people. But, it's actually the very opposite.

>>7442483
Hahaha. Yeah, I meant that the fact that everything is pointless doesn't matter.