/lit/ - Literature

>1. What is your life philosophy? Do you have goals? Do you have no goals? Do you schedule your days or do you view this is acting like a dehumanised machine?

I want to live a life as free from authority as possible. I want to make good things apart from myself.

I can't plan my days. Too volatile for that. I just pick up whatever pieces of personhood I have for that day and make do.

>2. Is anyone else like me in that they view a lot of their actions through faux psychological terms? For example, I wonder whether doing work with my phone nearby and on, even if I don't us it, makes me dumber because it is potentially usable within a second and I get distracted. Do I need to put my debit card away and use cash to avoid wasting money on junk food? Will thinking confident thoughts let me do more reps in the gym?

I wish I had your problems

3. This is maybe similar to 1, but is anyone else simply tempted to ignore all of history / philosophy before 1950 and derive your life philosophy from there? I think this can be called embracing modernism but i don't know the terminology. I'm sure I will be trolled for even mentioning this but it leads to some "edgy" thoughts.

Obviously going back and trying to be a monarchist or something is fucking retarded. People like to idealize the past too much. But it's important to know history to not be lost in the present. Human nature hasn't changed for a 100,000 years. Post 1950 is a pretty small sample size.

>Why care about "great rulers" if all they did was fight over borders that are irrelevant today? War is just nukes and third world playground fights these days, get over it.

Well...yeah. People were saying this even when they were more relevant.

>Why should I give a shit about the "enriching" effects of art when it won't increase my bank balance and we've seen the popularity of art forms wane? It's easy for the Greeks to spend time on things when they lived in a stagnant society with no social mobility and all the donkey work done by slaves.

Enriching your bank account allows you to enact your dreams. Art allows you recreate and enhance those dreams. You won't know how important it is until it has happened.

>Why not roid, get a nose job, and show off on Instagram?

Do whatever the fuck you want.

>>7049780

Probably East of Eden.