/lit/ - Literature

Will this book help me escape the rat race or will it just make me more miserable?

I can't go back to work tomorrow.

>>18608375

Does any philosopher except Marx address the utterly depressing fact that all of us have to spend the majority of our time working for a salary — ultimately to make someone else rich, but that’s not the point — doing menial bullshit that we really don’t want to do? Literally all I want is to live in a comfy cottage in the countryside, away from most technology, spending my time reading and building up a garden and fishing and pursuing my creative interests. I don’t want to play the fucking game.

>>11116859
Well, he's rather crude, his use of words is surpassed by the majority of internationally renown authors and neither his values nor his outlook on life are exactly pleasant.
But there is a reason meme related is making its rounds on this forum. He puts the spotlight on a number of issues that prevail in our consumerist society and draws attention to the arbitrary of rules we have given ourselves in many cases. On top of that he was quite an avant-garde author of his time and ought to be respected for breaking taboos.
In my opinion his near-pretentious unpretentiousness makes him stand out. The guy just didn't give a fuck and though there is lots of bragging in his book his honest self-analysis is something many authors can only aspire to.