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How do I develop an utter and complete aloofness towards people's political opinions? How do I kill that part of my being and just learn to take it easy?

If you want to kill yourself,
why don’t you want to kill yourself?
Now’s your chance!
I, who greatly love both death and life,
Would kill myself too, if I dared kill myself…
If you dare, then be daring!
What good to you is the changing picture of outer images
We call the world?
What good is this cinema of hours played out
By actors with stock roles and gestures,
This colorful circus of our never-ending drive to keep going?
What good is your inner world which you don’t know?
Kill yourself, and maybe you’ll finally know it…
End it all, and maybe you’ll begin…
If you’re weary of existing, at least
Be noble in your weariness,
And don’t, like me, sing of life because you’re drunk,
Don’t, like me, salute death through literature!

You’re needed? O futile shadow called man!
No one is needed; you’re not needed by anyone…
Without you everything will keep going without you.
Perhaps it’s worse for others that you live than if you kill yourself…
Perhaps your presence is more burdensome than your absence…
Other people’s grief? You’re worried
About them crying over you?
Don’t worry: they won’t cry for long…
The impulse to live gradually stanches tears
When they’re not for our own sake,
When they’re because of what happened to someone else,
especially death,
Since after this happens to someone,
nothing else will…

First there’s anxiety,
the surprise of mystery’s arrival
And of your spoken life’s sudden absence…
Then there’s the horror of your visible and material coffin,
And the men in black whose profession is to be there.
Then the attending family,
heartbroken and telling jokes,
Mourning between the latest news from the evening papers,
Mingling grief over your death with the latest crime…
And you merely the incidental cause of that lamentation,
You who will be truly dead, much deader than you
imagine…
Much deader down here than you imagine,
Even if in the beyond you may be much more alive…

>>15052711
>abnormally interpret
good

>>14985229
Book of Disquiet
The Man Without Qualities
Nietzsche (any book)
Stirner

>>14983211
be yourself

>>14763163
Like I said in the OP, there is no doubt that certain tasks demand higher brain complexity, but what I am talking about is the level of consciousness we as humans seem to label different creatures with. We see Chimps and see great similarities with ourselves, social aspects intermingling with our more 'primal' needs to hunt/forage etc.

I would agree with >>14763164 on this. Our level of consciousness is dictated solely by the complexity of the tasks we need to perform. Human beings need more complex brains as our lives are built around more complex functions. But what I'd argue that because the end result is the same, we have no right to say we are at a higher level of 'consciousness' than an ant, we might be smarter in some aspects, but we are both simply performing our functions.

>>14620445
Well, I was a second generation lefty until I was about 56, so maybe give it a few more years.
'Sfun to think differently, refreshing. Especially as we all know that all models of organising human behaviour are equally valid, there is no god and thus no objective morality. Nothing is true, all is permitted!

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>>13955848
Hell is a spook