/lit/ - Literature

this shit is so boring i'm about to drop it

Christ loves you Anon. Turn to Him.

This friendo. Seek the Good, the Beautiful, and the True. Want nothing and you shall want not.

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I feel a deep kinship with him on some level and we might have shared similar fates had I not been introduced to a new way of looking at the world — saved by divine grace.

>There's something particularly sad about it, something that doesn't have very much to do with physical circumstances, or the economy, or any of the stuff that gets talked about in the news. It's more like a stomach-level sadness. I see it in myself and my friends in different ways. It manifests itself as a kind of lostness. Whether it's unique to our generation I really don't know.

>The sadness that the book is about, and that I was going through, was a real American type of sadness. I was white, upper-middle-class, obscenely well-educated, had had way more career success than I could have legitimately hoped for and was sort of adrift. A lot of my friends were the same way. Some of them were deeply into drugs, others were unbelievable workaholics. Some were going to singles bars every night. You could see it played out in 20 different ways, but it's the same thing.

>I get the feeling that a lot of us, privileged Americans, as we enter our early 30s, have to find a way to put away childish things and confront stuff about spirituality and values.

Perhaps if he had been turned on to pic related, or Saint Augustine, or Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, etc. it could have turned out differently.

Being fed a steady diet of Nietzschean overcoming from adolescence never informs you of the Logos, of the essence of freedom as reflexive self-control and self-definition, and especially of man's natural role as a contemplative. I think I was over thirty before I heard of Thomas Merton, Dogen, Rumi, or Origen. It's a context we turned our back on. Existentialism cum scientism became the blank religion of the Western middle to upper classes, and it's hollow. Even Hegel is deflated and turned into an atheist to make him "safe for consumption."