/lit/ - Literature

Why does man need a meaning to life?

why go on?

>>9475001
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Zapffe was an anti-life philosopher and innamountains man.

You'd love him.

>>9028845
I agree. That's why I threw away my books (including everything by Schopenhauer) and got myself a 4K TV, a Netflix account and a PS4 Pro.

Distraction master race.

I will read genre fiction in the future though.

>>8955756
Humans are born with an overdeveloped skill (understanding, self-knowledge). The human craving for justification on matters such as life and death cannot be satisfied, hence humanity has a need that nature cannot satisfy. The tragedy, following this theory, is that humans spend all their time trying not to be human. The human being, therefore, is a paradox.

In The Last Messiah Zapffe described four principal defense mechanisms that humankind uses to avoid facing this paradox:

Isolation is "a fully arbitrary dismissal from consciousness of all disturbing and destructive thought and feeling".[3]
Anchoring is the "fixation of points within, or construction of walls around, the liquid fray of consciousness".[3] The anchoring mechanism provides individuals a value or an ideal that allows them to focus their attentions in a consistent manner. Zapffe also applied the anchoring principle to society, and stated "God, the Church, the State, morality, fate, the laws of life, the people, the future"[3] are all examples of collective primary anchoring firmaments.
Distraction is when "one limits attention to the critical bounds by constantly enthralling it with impressions".[3] Distraction focuses all of one's energy on a task or idea to prevent the mind from turning in on itself.
Sublimation is the refocusing of energy away from negative outlets, toward positive ones. The individuals distance themselves and look at their existence from an aesthetic point of view (e.g., writers, poets, painters). Zapffe himself pointed out that his produced works were the product of sublimation.

>>8702803
Nice.

>>8648771
>What makes life worth living?
Delusion.

>>8630426
>actually managed to fully bluepill himself

Are you just fucking with us, anon? If not, teach us your ways.

Is a high level of consciousness inherently self-destructive?

People with high intelligence are more likely to estimate things realistically, are more likely to be depressed, are more likely to be nihilistic in their worldview, are more likely to be less religious and above all are more likely to remain childless or reproduce below replacement rates.

Is high intelligence something nature selects against? Is it not evolutionarily sound?

Recommend me the darkest shit you have. Proper suicidecore.

>>7960236
Agree completely to be honest.

Too bad survival instinct and compassion ruin that otherwise simple solution.

>>7542705
who /still grunge/ here?

>>7511445
>tfw intelligence is selected against

>>7271032
whattup pete

How do we get the Norweggers to translate this man?

>>7060860
When did Norway get rich?

>>6726768
Because our parents were selfish assholes.