/lit/ - Literature

>>17636429
Bypass political texts altogether for the time being--anything written from a right or a left perspective is only going to reinforce biases until you can train yourself to read through those biases.

This doesn't mean you can't ever be political--but you've got to learn how to use political ideologies like tools, rather than grafting them onto your identity like egoic masks. These things are incredibly powerful, and unbelievably useful, if operated properly. You could become far more perceptive and insightful than most people on either the left or the right if you study the roots of where these strains of thought come from. It's not easy, and I only feel like I can say these things because I'm in the process of doing the same, and I know that I've still got a ways to go. But the gains are worth it.

Read Plato--I'd suggest what I'd call his core-four Socratic Dialogues, the Euthyphro, the Apology, the Crito, and the Phaedo. These texts provide a basic conceptual framework that is invaluable: they investigate and deconstruct where societies get their sense and sources of meaning from; they provide examples of how to defend one's positions honorably and honestly in unfair odds and systems; they explain the idea of devoting oneself to a higher ideals; and they give a pretty moving account of an old man sentenced unfairly to death and how he chooses to deal with it, in his final hours, among his friends.

You should also read the Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics.

I'd also recommend the Existentialists--I'm very fond of Kierkegaard, whose definition of "faith" in Fear and Trembling as honestly engaging in a pursuit knowing you could completely and totally fail, and yet still chasing after it because you not only believe you can succeed, but because you believe the thing you're pursuing is worth the act alone, regardless of outcome, is the closest definition to a philosophical idea of unconditional love I've ever read.

Nietzsche isn't bad either--Birth of Tragedy, his first book, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra, essentially his modern hero's fable, are both fantastic explorations of emerging modern philosophical perseverance under the shadow of the death of God.

This is a lot, and there's so much more. I don't know if you'll read any of this, but if you got this far, thank you, anon. And I wish you well. And good luck.

>>17519058
Your neurons fire when you see booba, the superior mans neurons fire when he finds and solves problems worth solving, the midwits fires when it's necessary to his survival eg. Bomb survivors becoming scientists
The silver lining is that these states are not static as proven by the midwit

>>16501457
Mangle your sex organs, take a blender to your face, kill your family, sexual partners, the antagonists in your life and fake your death