/lit/ - Literature

I generally don't read.

"The classics" are too heavy and boring for me to get into, and genre fiction is too lowbrow and unstimulating. Nonfiction is good but I prefer to learn by discussion than by reading, although obviously reading is important. But I don't enjoy reading nonfiction - I do it to learn, not for fun.

But when I find something I'm interested in, I will read hundreds of pages in a single day. Just lie in bed and read for 8 hours straight.

>>13019302
>to the point where I shot my reflection in the hallway mirror one night after I thought I heard someone in the house.
I'm making a note of this to include in the next depressing thing I write.

>>12936609
>They went through excruciating mental and physical difficulty for themselves and for the nations they represent
Effort without achievement.

>Men of true worth are both scholars and champions of strength.
Men of true worth solve problems. They come in all shapes and sizes, but the one thing they have in common is that their actions make an impact in the lives of others by helping them overcome real challenges. An olympic weightlifter is no more capable of solving real problems than a latte-sipping skeleton blogging about #therevolution from the comfort of his local #Starbucks. I'd like to see you meme about Dr Fred Hollows isn't a "man of true worth" because he's a bit flabby around the middle in his old age while he was restoring eyesight to blind people in developing countries. How many olympic lifts is the sight of a child worth? What is it - two hundred blind children per personal best?

No, I'm not saying I'm Dr Hollows. What I'm saying is that weightlifting is a self-aggrandising and narcissistic activity. It helps nobody, and yet people parade around like peacocks begging for blowjobs for how good they are at picking up heavy things and then putting them down in the exact same place. Your average wetback methhead removalist helps more people with his strength and endurance than the olympic athletes whose arses you are crawling up. People lift weights because they want the easy 'respect' (i.e. prestige) that comes from being physically imposing and because it doesn't take a huge amount of brainpower to succeed. If you're not very clever and not very skilled, but you spend a few years lifting weights, people like you will crawl out of the woodwork to suck your dick because they're sycophants susceptible to the halo effect.

I don't care about the nonexistent inherent virtues of man you are trying to peddle. I care about what others can do for me - and what I can do for others.

Cry more, child.