/lit/ - Literature

I'm 35 years old and at this point I've read a fair amount of philosophers and I've come to a realisation.

They all make great, informative points about the human spirit but invariably their final conclusions are half assed copes. Pick any philosopher you want, they all "sign off" their great works with some lame ass, lazy take on how you should live your life. As if they all came to the same conclusion but refused to speak it out loud, so they made up something more palateable. There's the "dude find your own meaning" types, the "being good is its own reward types", the "if we implement X, Y, Z rules then the world would be perfect" types but they all come across as barely believing their own bullshit.

Despite all their wisdom, every philosopher I know of died in poverty, alone or in some fucked up way where they went crazy or did something stupid.

The more I "self-insert" into my life, the happier I feel. But the less dissociated I get, the less creative I feel and time begins to fly by faster.

>>19734343
>this prose isn't like the opening paragraph of lolita this is bad prose! the prose, it sucks it's bad prose!! look at the prose it's bad
the easiest way to spot a /lit/ newfaggot pseud.

>>19667514
> I have wealth beyond what can be measured in status, money, achievements. I have wisdom and cultivated emptiness forged in the depths of hedonistic pleasure, suicidality, pain, misery, depravity. I've seen things uglier that I thought possible and failed in ways I didn't know existed. I've lost everything and found out it was all nothing. Anyways, nice meeting you Stacey have a great night guys

>>19639884
It's an iterative process known as "reading"
>search for word
>parse for phonemes
>pronounce phonemes while searching for next word
>repeat

>>19154837

>This has been exactly my position through multiple posts bro I'm just like an open-minded skeptic who doesn't commit to anything for which there is no proof... why yes I do believe without proof that there is no consciousness without the brain how did you know.... What? You're saying that people in other cultures have already written accounts of consciousness and the body being different that don't have the flaws of Decartes which I rely on citing when shilling materialism? Uhh... actually I exclude them for arbitrary reasons and say that everything remaining is 'vague' and 'subjective'

How do I remember the details of everything I read? I have a good grasp for around a month then it escapes into the ether

>>17207571
>It's the "I'm wrong, but I'll pretend I'm not flustered by posting le funny 4channel epig meme foto xD" episode.

>tfw you realize all philosophical problems derive from grey-area distinctions that cannot be properly articulated with language without creating more grey area distinctions, so that the only possible option is not to say anything at all, including not making this post, the realization of which causes you to shit yourself and roll over the floor while making baboon noises as you realize that your attempt to communicate any meaning is always already blocked by a transcendental gap hardwired into the world of subjects and objects

Books for this feel?