/lit/ - Literature

>>21478588
>Being poor is le bad because...you can't consume products

>Buying things

>"Pass me the shellfish," said Tom crabbily.

>>12904316
i don't but i imagine you would have a bit more respect for diogenes if that was the case.

gas the cats, nuke the cities!

I want to be the dogman.

Maybe masturbation as a taunting move and throwing his lantern and burning someone to death as a finishing move.

What was his fucking problem?

>>10268995

>implying that /lit/ isn't an edgy version of Diogenes of Sinope

I want to study Computer Science, but I don't have the money to go to school. Rec me some books, lists, or syllabus I should check for a freshman level, Lit.

>>9194839
There has been proven that money and circumstance does have an aspect of diminishing returns when it comes to happiness.

I mean, I work less in terms of hours, but use that time to potter around in my garden with my veggies which, being homegrown are far more filling and nutritious than from a shop, meaning I can have a veggie broth that is about 4 dinners and costs nothing.

One thing that I've started doing is paying for things in 'hours worked' rather than money. A washing machine and dryer could cost something like 70 hours of work, but I'd much rather not work those 70 hours and wash by hand or pay a few quit and the local laundrette.

What are some good books on consumerism?

Everything I buy something that's supposed to make me happier I feel worse.

I want to read about him.

>>8628451
>surfing the wave of life with a hot partner, a gorgeous bod, stacks of money from your high paying job, the most interesting friends in the world
>a flipping everyone the bird and laughing hardily along the way

These two are incompatible. Normies can pose like they 'don't give a fuck dude lol' but they always do.

If you spend your life working out to be pretty, kissing ass to make money and catering to the desires of women you are a slave.

>>8498735
we here are tub philosophers.

I want to be as good as Diogenes in having my mental state be independent of my material and social conditions.

I want to be able to be a poor hated homeless cunt and still be happy, and to be able to be deathly ill and still be happy. I want happiness that isn't outsourced to happenstance.

>>8456556

>Seeing the child of a courtesan throw stones at a crowd, he cried out, "Take care you don't hit your father."

Ugh.

who /lentilpilled/?

>>8358561
Auto-indoctrination.

I used to romanticise being a decadent drunken libertine. In order to overcome that lifestyle I started romanticising the simple ascetic life instead.

Throwing away possessions and sitting in an empty room eating beans is my new fetish now.

>>8297320
*cough*

In a decadent society, does non-participation become a virtue?

>>7988672
Don't you realise your conformist shaming tactics do not work on those who chose the NEET life? When someone reaches this level of strength and confidence in walking his own path your shitposts will have no effect.

Do you honestly care yourself whether the common pleb considers you pathetic, by the way? That's seems like an unpleasant way to live, toiling your entire life not only in the service of your own spooks but in the service of the spooks of others.

who /dogger/ here?