/lit/ - Literature

>>9976175

>>3734859
>doing something productive
Most ridiculous buzzword of our time. To what end would one do something productive? What does it even mean?

>>3712970
Speed reading is for plebs in a hurry. It's incompatible with wisdom and the good life.

Speed reading is a symptom of capitalism.

>>3658404
It's been proven that it doesn't work, ruins the experience and is for 'efficiency' minded workforce faggots who can't into otium to save their life.

>>3634153
Not in education, employment, or training. It's as simple as that. The working life was merely keeping him back in developing his thought. It's fatal to any sensitive and fertile mind. Great minds have no business dulling themselves with labour.

>>3634147
Don't be alarmed, most of them are too spooked to embrace Neetzscheanism cheerfully anyway.

>>3611867
I have fetishised idleness and shameless bohemianism to such a point that I take pride in it. I feel a warm glow when the welfare check arrives. I blatantly exhibit my dolce far niente for all ambitious and working people to see, like Diogenes stretching out his filthy body in the sun while people go about their business. I have revaluated of all values and flipped them back in the right position. No more slave values, only otium now.

>>3593865
just livin' that NEETzchiean life yo.

>>3482478
Who said anything about morals? I just said that most people can't handle a life of leisure. They need their labour to feel justified to exist and to fill their time and souls. Idleness is a virtue your average protestant work ethic civilian is scared to death of in any worthwhile dosage.

I don't consider myself lazy though, when something has my interest I can throw myself on it with relentless dedication. It's just that I don't feel that way about, say, stacking boxes in a warehouses or writing papers on Peter Singer. I don't mind leaving the house either, I just don't like it for all kinds of bothersome obligations.

>>3434339
I've cast off the expectations and demands of my surroundings to do exactly as I please and live according to my own values. For me to cast of my hopes and have my spirit broken would mean getting a job and falling in line. Instead I live light footed and Dionysian, embracing idleness and leisurely joys, doing only what I want, giving myself over to contemplation as others struggle for their luxuries and vacations, to get away from the very virtues they are espousing. People often fall for the idea that there used to be slavery and now everyone is free. Actually there are less free people than ever, and slavery has become the rule. Pic related, another Nietzsche quote.