/lit/ - Literature

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZlXWp6vFdE

What's the point/reason of suffering?

Eumeswil, it's fantastic.

>>18424186

How do you write something intended for the general public without giving in to the temptation to redpill them?

I don't believe in didactic writing, but I'm just overcome with horror for daily life. I don't think I can describe it without condemning it. Vegetable oil, high fructose corn syrup, sugar, onions, microplastics, smart device dystopia, the hysterical socio-political atmosphere, the bottomless pit of mental illness that is the internet: it's all pure poison. It was all pure poison in 2019 and things have not improved since then, to say the least.

But I'm not under the illusion that anyone wants to read about this stuff. Not even I do. That setting aside the fact that the nail that sticks up gets hammered down. The young rebels are all in favour of this stuff, as they have been since the '60s. I'm in a position where the only thing I can write is unpalatable to others, and which will be a legal liability to me in the future when a new round of punishments and cancellations comes around.

My head is full of fuck, please advise.

>>16582069
Wow I'm a software engineer and just about everything in that pic is wrong for me.

> respected job with clear ladder of advancement (if I choose)
> new interesting problems that need solving every day
> I sleep 8-9 hours every day and feel refreshed. Usually work about 30 hours a week (sometimes less since COVID)
> I don't commute. Job has gone remote since COVID. Looks like it'll stay that way
> I have no debt/mortgage/finances to worry about. I moved in with my parents since COVID. I give them $500/month so I don't feel guilty and help pay groceries
> It's true that I don't have amazing relationships with my coworkers but who cares? I've friends outside of work
> I do fake a happier persona of myself but it's not that exaggerated. Nobody likes working with a dick
> I have 0 stress. Life is good and easy for me
> My mom makes me healthy, nutritious meals
> I have 1 cup of coffee in the morning every day. No smoking/alcohol (1 beer with my dad and brother on special occasions)
> No daydreams here. Recently took a 6 month sabbatical to travel around Central/South America and surf, learn Spanish, and hookup with latina cuties
> Not doing anything on the weekends is true but that's because I injured my foot surfing. Recovering from surgery as we speak (btw my job provides comprehensive health insurance. I paid a total of $100; USA fag)

I make ~$200k/year and can do this as long as I like. Sure i'll probably retire within the next decade, but it will be my own choice when I do and I'll be able to afford to do the things I want with money that I earned.

No judgement on the NEET life if that's what you really want, but there are other ways to find happiness and fulfillment in this world.

sometimes when i'm at the supermarket or a retail store and i'm standing by the register having my stuff scanned by a slightly depressed looking girl, i wish that i could just chat her up and we could hang out after her shift to take her away from the miserable shit job she has
but there's always people in the queue behind me

oh well

>>13866411
This is not a natural state of mind, but rather and affliction, I was trapped in that sort of stupor for almost 3 years, my will completely numb, like trapped in amber. I thought to myself "There's not a single mirror in my room, but everything there reflects who I've become" that sort of defeatist mantra surfacing onto my mind over and over again.
I spent so many nights lying on my back, restless, staring at nothing at all, wandering how my life could've turned out if I would've done X, Y, or Z. Over and over again, I replaced the old self of my disturbingly vivid memories with my new self, made bolder and wiser through the trials of these past years. Nevermind the fact that my hearth had become charred by idleness and cynicism, im sure if only I was given the chance to change thing up, I right all of my wrongs.
Bitterness and gratitude, hope and despair, it all melts together, sooner or later the wave of reality crushes down upon, I don't even recall how I snapped out of it, and you and you are left a castaway, shivering with eyes wide open but alas, no longer asleep.