/lit/ - Literature

>>16164675
Eh, you're right that the time of complaining is over. Still trying to pic related

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>>13779447

Seeking informative reading on the topic of why I am addicted to this godforsaken board despite the total lack of any content new to my withered oldfag eyes, and also despite the exponentially poisonous disdainful contemptuous abhorrent malice with which /lit/ daily infects me.

>>13442332

I would like recommendations for books about regret.

I feel that I have built my life up to nothing. I have a useless college degree in which I have lost all interest, and I have no serious plans as to how to get out of it, how to break into another field; it seems that every escape available is another mediocrity, and that even if I viciously fought to the top of my field any reward for that effort would be mediocre: king of the shit heap. I am friendless and isolated. I have lost all passion or excitement...at this point I read only out of habit. I often have little urge to even eat. The only thing really motivating me is the knowledge that if I let go everything will be worse. If I gave up, Iwould then be jobless, and then homeless, and then hopeless, immense efforts then necessary even to reacquire mediocrity, and the only other escape just submission to oblivion.

I feel that I have been lied to all my life about how the world works, or else I simply have not listened. The only thing in all the world I have going for me is that I happen to be articulate.

>>13415744

>>13414432
Good, me too

This is probably a very difficult situation to change, because the boards are the expression of unconscious group tendencies and behaviours.

I do believe that the boards in general have become worse over time, accelerating into caricatures of themselves, their most prominent characteristics being progressively amplified. Subtlety and nuance are not easy to find online, but you'll certainly be even more hard pressed to find them in the 4chan of 2019.

If there's a common thread to culture across the boards that I can identify, it's insecurity. Every board seems to have a continuous creation of threads centered around the creation and curation of an aesthetic and identity. Hierarchies of "taste" are developed around the inherently subjective notion of value. It's oxymoronic and blinds people to a genuine enjoyment and shared celebration/discussion of art.

Instead of threads sharing memories around seeing your favourite band live on /mu/ for instance, you're more likely to see 9x9 threads, where people paste records they like and ask others to "rate" them. On /lit/, a common thread is to ask others what kind of person they picture when they say they like book X. There's this bizarre interest in how others perceive your subjective preferences, and whether or not it's acceptable. The hilarious consequence of this is that threads dedicated to the sharing of art are criticised for "spoonfeeding" posters, as though they make an elite identity too accessible, and less valuable to possess as a result.

>>10466204
Just read what you type guy. Do you think someone wants to be with you, someone who openly and aggressively hates them, mocks them and believes should have their rights stripped away. Why would a woman who wasn't coerced or forced into marriage wilingly and voluntarily be in the same room as someone who has his opinions on women stuck in 1920.

I'm not lonely, bro, just fucking get a grip on yourself and stop coming on here.

>>10260160
Fuck it, this thread doesn't seem to go anywhere. It's creeping around in my mind anyhow, so I'll give it a shot. Looking forward to being blown the fuck out.

>>10252227
The individual seeks to bond with a group, or at the very least pursuing the idea of bonding, by adapting a particular "dialect" native to the group in question – it's a universal phenomena and you can see it unfolding everywhere, know what I'm saying?

Pic related explains the general culture very well.

>>10031544
Special you say?
I suspect that the complete opposite is true. I'm not here cause I'm "special" in any sense of being superior to others, and of course I can only talk about myself, but I suspect that the majority of people here share my position. No, no I'm not special, I'm not an intellectual, or someone with an outstanding mind or subjectivity; I'm an misathrope. I hate other people, they're low in my eyes, thus I'm superior, therefore I find myself in a place where the hate is mutual. This place is a hellhole that regurgitates the shit it eats everyday, I belong here, because I don't belong anywhere else, so I pretty much don't have any place at all; this place only furthers the alienation, and the people here are the first that will feast upon your corpse, when you fall.
Fuck you, boy.

i leave you with this