/lit/ - Literature

>>18871546

>>12057113
sounds legit

How do I cope with the bullshit that permeates everything in modern society?

People tell you that you should read shitloads of boring as fuck novels. I see novels as entertainment, not some tool for gaining "profound philosophical and psychological insights". You can make infinitely many unfalsifiable extrapolations by using anything. People, usually charlatanic academics or pseudointellectuals, choose pompous books for this purpose to try and deter questioning of their pathetic "wisdom". Or if the books aren't used to promote"insights" they are used as alleged evidence of good taste or intellect. And not only are you pressured to pretend to like boring as fuck classic books, it is looked down upon to just go and read them. You have to pretend to have almost randomly come across them. Of course this propaganda tactic is to promote the false idea that the pseudo intellectuals' judgement was not influence by other pseudointellectuals.

Similarly with philosophy. I clearly see that there are infinitely many possible philosophical axioms. Everything from there is pretty fucking trivial. And no, I don't put science on a pedestal separate from Hegelian bullshit or anything like that. I see that science is part of philosophy. The promotion of certain parts of philosophy is based solely on arbitrary fashions.

>B-b-but religion means something in this day and age!!! That 4chan troll can't be right, it can't just be a load of sanctimonious, pseudointellectual sprinkles you put on things to give yourself the look of someone with depth!