/lit/ - Literature

>read more books
>get neurotic and depressed
>milquetoast progressive / socialist
>read even more
>become completely misanthropic
>become unironic fascist
>epistemology is an unsolvable problem and you can't really comprehend politics
>Stop reading, start drinking and jerking off to femboys
>become apolitical
>not much happier
What do?

>>12575051
>He used to reason as follows: 'Everything belongs to the gods; the wise are friends of the gods; friends hold all things in common; ergo, everything belongs to the wise.'

>The Greeks after this assembled at Corinth and agreed to invade Persia with Alexander for their leader. Many of their chief statesmen and philosophers paid him visits of congratulation, and he hoped that Diogenes of Sinope, who was at that time living at Corinth, would do so. As he, however, paid no attention whatever to Alexander and remained quietly in the suburb called Kraneium, Alexander himself went to visit him. He found him lying at full length, basking in the sun. At the approach of so many people, he sat up, and looked at Alexander. Alexander greeted him, and enquired whether he could do anything for him. "Yes," answered Diogenes, "you can stand a little on one side, and not keep the sun off me."

shitposting peaked in the 4th century BC

START WITH HERACLITUS THEN IMMEDIATELY GO TO HEGEL, CONGRATULATIONS YOU ARE DONE WITH READING

Birth of Tragedy is actually his best work
After that read On Wagner because they tie together
Then the Gay Science for some comfy aphorisms
Then Geneology for his edgy hammering of morality
Then be done

>>10167655
>>10167665
Start with the Greeks or get the fuck off my board
That's not a meme by the way, we've got enough idiots posting here as is

>>10152112
Maybe I should consult Diogenes and start shitting in the theater.

>>9980722
destitute minimalism is also cool anon

Senpai.

>>9870262
pic related
>>9870323
also, nice meme tits

>>9868355
>What? They both emphasise:
>>living with virtue
>>living in accord with nature
>>rejecting conventional desires like money, sex, reputation
>>simple life
Absolutely wrong, Diogenese lived in a bathtub not a cave, if he lived like an animal it was through organic coincidence not because he strived towards living according to nature, thats a significant difference.
Again you're failing to recognize how tremendously opposed the schools are, a Cynic would find any of these things laughable as a desirable "virtue". If they ever allign with them it is through abritrary circumstancial chance not through intent. I would go as far to say a Cynic is the direct antithesis of a Stoic.

>>9438483
Peter kropotkin

>>9438719
nihilists fuck off, you have never thought deeper into an argument on God than the top layer "muh hes not omnipotent got em'"

I literally never see discussion on philosophers like Diogenes, aka philosophers that are born without a fuck to give out. and are passionately against giving a fuck. Diogenes invented Cynic Philosophy and is a much better philosopher than you can ever be

Tell me a good collection of Diogenes.

Stop adhering to societal norms and rules.

>>9252863
Literally nothing wrong with looking like a bum

>>9047030
that's all I got on this drive

We write a line through Z to differentiate it from 2
We draw a line through 0 to differentiate it from O
We write an open 4 to differentiate it from 9
We draw 9 like a backwards P to differentiate it from g

Why is there nothing for 5 and S?

Plato had Diogenes

*Leaves the room*

>>8396824
Chuang Tzu
Epictetus: The Discourses
KJV Bible
Technological Slavery
Nausea

>>8282724
Smoking and reading don't really mix (with Pynchon being the obvious exception, Gravity's Rainbow begs to be re-read stoned off your ass), I usually prefer it as a way to unwind after a hard day of study.

My current schedule

>Wake up
>largest breakfast I can stomach
>quad shot of espresso
>morning walk and a cigarette to refresh the sleeping body
>autodidact study until I get a migraine
>pop half a dozen T3s, smoke a trio of nice big bong tokes and chug down a cup of Kava Kava brew
>go for an evening walk listening to Trap music
>get home, brew some chamomile valerian tea and take a mixture of various OTC herbal sleep supplements
>pass out at some point and regain consciousness in the morning
>rinse and repeat

I'm comfortably in a downward spiral leading to a life of empty intellectualism and homelessness AKA the only patrician lifestyle still available. Now if I could only build up the courage to jack off at the grocery store, I could start to live like a true Diogenes.