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what are the best books on cynic philosophy

Behold, a crab! Get out of my sunlight you double nigger.

>>19990500
I choose Diogenes

>>18959133
>How can people name their sons after anyone else?

>>18203607

Diogenes

find me a better philosopher

>>17790250

>"Stand aside to stop blocking the sun."

What's a good comeback?

It's frustrating to believe you know how stupid and ill-conceived society is but to still be subject to it and forced through its funnels and placed in its hierarchies and judged by its gradients and power differentials. Not to flatter myself that I am a modern day Diogenes, not that the bar is so high to be like him, but I do feel it is almost impossible for me to thrive in this system, that it is fundamentally at odds with someone who has their own ideas and chooses to live by them. How am I to be happy if to live I must do what goes against my will?

We pretend we are free, kidding ourselves that the jobs and etiquettes and expectations and corporations we must conform to are freedom. Success is judged according to criteria we do not specify ourselves. We are sold false dreams and told to believe them. Money is our God and there is no way out besides insanity, resignation and surrender, alienation, self-delusion or suicide. To choose actual freedom is to choose exile.
>in b4 we live in a society

>He used to say that debauched men resembled figs growing on a precipice; the fruit of which is not tasted by men, but devoured by crows and vultures
>Once he saw a youth studying philosophy, and said to him, “Well done; inasmuch as you are leading those who admire your person to contemplate the beauty of your mind."
>He was once addressed by a youth beautifully adorned, who asked him some question; and he refused to give him any answer, till he satisfied him whether he was a man or a woman.
>He saluted a harp player who was always left alone by his hearers, with, “Good morning, cock;” and when the man asked him, “Why so?” he said, “Because you, when you sing, make every one get up.”
>And when, on another occasion, some one said to him, “The people of Sinope condemned you to banishment,” he replied, “And I condemned them to remain where they were.”

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>>15637620
>second-thought much like Diogenes the Cynic
You take that back.