/lit/ - Literature

Why should I care about philosophy when all axioms are chosen arbitrarily?

Why should I care about someone's unfalsifiabile system?

Why is there a constant war on personal taste? Why can't we just admit that corporations want to sell us shit and that pseudo intellectuals band together to feign intelligence?

Why am I able to see the utter triviality of everything said by Aristotle, Plato, Nietzche, Zizek, and many others, yet other people cannot?

I'm so fucking sick of the mountains of people telling me I need to stop using my taste and read / go through tonnes of boring shit.

Dostoevsky and Dickens and a lmost all books written before 1900 are boring as fuck. There are zero worthwhile "insights" in these books, as if that's why I even read books lol.

All philosophies are just one out of infinitely many possible points of view, but some are better marketed than others. I have a constant crushing feeling because pseuds tell me I have to read Plato even when I know it will be BORING AS FUCK, trivial, vague, fallacious shit. I KNOW this before I've even fucking read the republic. The dialogues I have read have been sophistry.

I am SO fucking bored of SICP. All it does is repackage simple stuff and presents it in an overly complicated way. Lisp is nice but if it is never used irl then why do the mental masturbators never shut up about it?

Boredom is a a completely intellectual emotion.

>graduated from university almost two years ago but just lived at home and worked in humiliating part time retailcuck jobs
>social skills not good enough to pass the many graduate interviews I've had
>have had gigantic amounts of free time but wasted all of it- can't bear to work hard on anything such as learning programming
>zero social life, main hobby is driving around or going for walks while feeling bad about life and wasting time on the internet
>going to the cinema / library just makes me feel like a loser now
>turned 25 a few days ago and feel like the prime of my life has gone
>seeing happy younger people feels like shit

Humanities academics are rejects w/no common sense substituting thinking w/universal slogans, destroying student's discernment and reasoning.

How do you deal with the constant guilt that you are wasting your time or not working efficiently or that trying to work efficiently is dumb or any of the other endless prevaricating about your choices?

I always have it. I want to reject all wisdom, self help, and philosophy related to this as bullshit, and I truly believe it's all bullshit, but I keep getting drawn back in and thinking about things.

Part of the problem is that if I truly use my intuitions I end up throwing almost everything in to the trash. Of course that includes self help but it also includes all boring as hell fiction and boring as hell pointless philosophies and current events and history and so on. There are ten trillion things you have to claim you are interested in or else the pseudo intellectuals will come after you.

Of all people, Zizek sums it up well but he doesn't realise you can generalise to literally all philosophy. I have completely realised that all philosophy that is practised is an infinitely small amount of all possible philosophy. I can see this but society abuses you and yells you to fall in to line and swallow the bullshit

https://youtu.be/f1siWHmKV5c

4chan is without a doubt the worst website in the history of the internet. I have never seen such an agglomeration of stupidity and wretchedness anywhere else, nor would have imagined that so much ugliness — mental, and no doubt also physical — could be possible in this world if I had never come across it. And they are all fully aware of this, which is why they prefer to remain anonymous, and almost immediately trash everything that they write, since they know it's rubbish. We are talking about individuals so weak and fearful that even the nicknames used by forum users feel too restrictive and oppressive to them. Individuals so slow and incoherent that they don't want others to be able to connect even as much as two of their posts together and hold them accountable for some measure of logic between them. This is the true bottom of the barrel of (sub)humanity. And that's why I keep an eye on it from time to time. You couldn't even meet such idiots in the street, since people in the street possess at least the minimum amount of strength required to leave their rooms and walk around. So if my site is the greatest site that exists and that will ever be made (and it is), 4chan is the lowest one, and will remain so for as long as it remains the internet's bastion for all those who are attracted by anonymity (which is to say for nobodies).

And now sit back and watch the torrent of threads confounding anonymity with pseudonymity that will be popping up on there.

How do I get over the fact that all advice and wisdom and philosophy is just flailing about within the infinitely large space of unfalsifiable ideas?

Have you realised that the information age, with the huge amount of reading material, everything in English or translated to English, and vastly increased number of (sub-)media for books alone (physical, magazine, tablet, phone, e-reader, website, blog etc.), has destroyed the idea of being "well read"?

I think this for two reasons. First is the huge volume of stuff. You could read all day and never even read 1 % of all that "valuable" stuff. When it was 1600 and you could have read everything during your 3 years of formal education (more than 99 % of people) you could immediately join the intellectuals club. Now that's not true and it's demoralising.

The second reason is the killer. The idea of some sort of central planning bureau setting the list of required books is seen as farcical. We truly live in a much more multipolar world. Back in 1100 the Church told you to read the Greeks and the Bible and you are suddenly intelligent and well informed. There were no universities or companies or groups to tell you otherwise. These days, the huge increase in education means that everyone has an opinion and the arbitrariness of the "canon" has been exposed even to the most soody of pseudo intellectuals. Not only due to the multipolarisation within literature, but also the multipolarisation among activities. Who would claim that some Fields Medallist winning mathematician is an idiot because he hasn't read the Bible? It would take a high level of soodiness. But it would have been easy 1000 years ago.

Ultimately all this "well read" stuff was just a way for groups of people to signal social status / intellectualism or deriving other benefits by grouping their claimed interests together. We see it today when the academia-media-publishing industrial complex tells you that you have to read books or you're stupid. But this has been taken to a farcical new level now that writers like Tao Lin / Mira Gonzalez exist. It's also clear in other activities.