/lit/ - Literature

>>13498057
Have this friend who's been trying for a while to claim he's an enlightened being and beyond my level of personal development. That provides its own source of humor so it's fine right where it is. I can laugh at a man whose life work is pretending to have already worked, to begin from the end-stages.

The problem here is my personal development has hit the point where I actually want to knock this shit-for-brains' head about and force the kid to sit his ass down and work. Note: I am not this kid's larping father. I found his shit funny for a while, but now it's gotten to the point he'll make claims about values, ethics, moral codes, and all of the rest of the classical, literary and great things and his not following through on them, his not aligning action to words, grates on me.

>Am I being a petty hypocrite getting just desserts after laughing at his theatrics?
>Am I better off leaving such a man to wallow in wan efforts, moving onto new heights?
>Is there an ethical imperative here to help a fellow grow to see beyond his bullshit?
I've reread the Greeks thinking that may help, however, it's only served a side of cold fries to a hungry stomach that misses fire-roasted meats and raw vegetables; I feel like a literary marshmallow.