/lit/ - Literature

Earth is going to shit: superstorms, deserts, famine, war, etc. Most people live in megacities b/c outside it's environmentally hostile and a Mad Max world outside. Some people in space, in station-communities, a permanent but small colony on Mars, and in an exclusive club in orbit run by an AGI.

Robot's eliminated enough work to make people bored, and people often lose themselves in VR worlds or take their chances outside because the the future sucks and civilization peaked a while ago.

MC is lucky enough to live in a space station and spends their time treasure hunting IRL for anyone who can pay. Mostly scavenging for rare art, historical artifacts, fancy alcohol, and shit for rich fucks. Secretly they're searching for a purpose in life and are hoping that by looking for things that other people value, they might find a meaning in everything for themself.

They get answers ranging from suicide to hedonism, but yearn for something deeper or greater in the face of a vast and empty universe and an Earth winding-down.

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i'm no good with gimp/photoshop but here's a good list of assorted things in roughly chronological order (by author)

kierkegaard

>either/or
>sickness unto death
>fear and trembling

nietzsche

>birth of tragedy
>genealogy of morals
>BG&E

freud

>ego and the id
>interpretation of dreams
>civilization and its discontents

jung

>man and his symbols
>psychology of the unconscious
>archetypes and collective unconscious

piaget

>play, dreams and imitation
>moral judgment of a child
>psychology of intelligence

frankl

>will to meaning
>man's search for meaning

rollo may

>love and will
>the meaning of anxiety

carl rodgers

>a way of being
>on becoming a person

alan watts

>psychology east & west
>the wisdom of insecurity

sapolsky

>behave
>why zebras don't get ulcers

omitted adler, fromm, lacan, neumann, the behaviorists (skinner, pavlov, etc), most neuroscientists and other related persons due to lack of personal knowledge on their material

there's probably someone who can hook you up with recs for those but this is the basis of clinical therapy and individual psychology

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fellow ENTP here. I have a question: Are rationalist personalities(INTP, ENTP INFJ, etc.) inheretnly more intelligent than average?

Or does the way we process information just make us seem more intelligent than other types?

I've always thought my intelligence wasn't as high as people seem to sometimes perceive it to be, internally shrugging off the rare misguided compliment as a misclassification of what actually was just a different set of internal carrots and sticks that dictate what I enjoy doing(more academic leaning stuff).

Does anyone else feel this way?