/lit/ - Literature

>>11041728
well, speaking for myself, i wish it was that simple. i used to really want to be very much like the people around me. i thought everybody else knew what they were doing and somehow i was the mutant and that there was something wrong with me.

so i read philosophy to figure out why. and, as it happened, the reading told me that i was doing and saying and thinking all kinds of ridiculous stuff that was really just stupid and narcissistic and historically deaf. that adventure kept going.

but eventually it got to a point where some thing also started to click and i realized, wow, no, everybody suffers from anxiety, or confusion, or bewilderment, in various ways, many of which are deeply personal. and there are all kinds of reasons for this, and lots of different ways to respond to it. in the present age, a lot of stuff happens for identitarian reasons, and these things eventually link up to politics, economics, history, and other things.

and so now i find myself on the outside looking in most of the time. part of me still wants to 'fit in' but i wonder how possible this is actually is. as people develop they become more different, not more alike. and at the same time philosophy and religious stuff seems to continually hint that, beneath the surface of this, there is a lot more similarity than difference, which is the really mysterious part. tat tvam asi and all. and because of that it's enjoyable to share writers or other things that you have discovered. for which /lit/ is the greatest.

especially since we live in such an inquisitorial age when everybody is so quick to jump down everyone else's throats for being a heretic. i personally think it's the age of the rage zombie right now. if you can be different but still friendly at the same time it's a good look.