/lit/ - Literature

How to escape modernity? I read Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Houellebecq, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, In the Buddha's Words, etc. And now I don't know what to do. I agree with Nietzsche in his admiration of the life affirming culture of the Greeks and Romans. I also agree with Schopenhauer on quite a bit, especially on causes of suffering. However, I don't like the extreme life denying aspects of eastern religions. At the same time, I hate modernity and hedonism. I also do not like Islam, which I feel rejects many instincts that I have to progress as a whole. I'm sorry to all the muslim anons on here, but something about it appalls my instinct to continue moving forward towards something greater. I have quite honestly never seen something that causes a stagnation in people to such a great extent. However, I also agree with Houellebecq that we as a culture cannot return to Christianity as a solution (at least I don't think). He proposed that we must create a new religion or movement. So what is it going to be? What am I supposed to do? I want a life affirming movement, that rejects hedonism and materialism, has strong cultural values, provides a feeling of pride and unity. However, at the same time, I have a drive to learn, develop, progress to greater ideas. I don't like dogmatism. I have this huge contradiction in which I want progress + economic socialism + healthy cultural right wing (family, nation, unity focus). Is such an amalgamation even possible in the modern day? Or am I a naïve fool simply looking down a pipe dream? What the fuck am I supposed to do? I read read read words words words. But it simply doesn't get any better. I feel as though something is deeply wrong with the modern world, it feels artificial. I don't think I'm dumb (at least not too dumb), and yet I feel incapable of adapting to this modern world. Surely if everyone is capable of it, and I am the only one who is not, then I must consider the possibility that it is just me that is broken. I hate social media, in fact I hate most media in general. I don't like tv, games, and most virtual content. I get some weird feeling of disgust at every with the former, and every commercial I see, every consoom product I see. It's a weird feeling of discontent with the modern world that I simply cannot describe. WTF am I supposed to do? What is wrong with me? What is wrong with all of this? I'm getting tired of searching, can some idealogue just provide me with an easy solution? I'm tired of trying to figure this shit out. I've already looked, and I can't accept any of the modern solutions. I can't accept the marcuse, adorno, gramsci, marxist, critical theory bullshit. I also cannot accept the fascist, traditionalist, /pol/, stuff either. Thank you for reading my shitty blogpost, I hope you enjoy me impregnating your brain with my thought cummies.

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>>19802344
Remember, perfect is the enemy of good.

Also I think that this is a trap that a lot of people (including myself) run into. The idea that just because we're all gonna die, that means all lives are equal.

Consider this case.

One person who was knowledgeable and active all her life now suffers from severe cognitive limitations, while another person has suffered from such severe cognitive
limitations all her life. They are similar now. But we would not say that their lives were the same. Of course, if we examine only the
aspects in which these two people are similar, completely disregarding those aspects in which they differ, the two appear the same.

This is true also of cases in which their lives are over and the people are equal now in being dead: although both Martin Luther King Jr. and Jack the Ripper are now dead, it would be odd to consider their lives as similar in meaning.

We would not usually think that because both
are now dead it does not really matter how they lived their lives. This is true even if Martin Luther King Jr. and Jack the Ripper were one day to be completely forgotten, or there were no person or conscious creature left to remember them.

Can I get some recommendations on Polish Paganism? I'm looking for books, scientific articles (if they are on JSTOR or ProQuest), really anything. Just resources in general that will go in depth about Polish Pagan people, history, beliefs, culture, lifestyle, literature, all of it. But more specifically, I am looking to find out more about the beliefs and the religion itself. Maybe some literature on the movement known as "Rodzimowierstwo"? Even more specific, I want to learn about the religion, right before the period of Christianization, which happened from my understanding in the 900's. Someone certainly had to write something down, right bros? And I can speak Polish, so you can post stuff in English and Polish.

>>19779140