/lit/ - Literature

>>15378478
It’s more about the materialist/hedonist world view that has replaced our old idealist values that depress us. The most important thing to modern society now is maximizing pleasure, and when you are emotionally mature (most aren’t), you begin to realize the depressing nature of general modern value-system

>>15369867
First of all, he was a literal genius and was one of the leading young mathematicians. Second of all, since he decided to become a hermit, he became more aware of the noise and destruction that technological society caused. He wasn’t one of the boiling frogs, but rather one outside the frame who could get a glimpse of the trajectory of society.

We have no great causes to die for, liberal democracy needs no such causes.