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>had a McDonald's binge last night
>bought and ate cookies at flat
>wasted time on internet
>went to sleep at 2 am
>woke up a few times in night, needing to drink lots of water
>woke up before 9 am
>browsed internet on phone
>got out of bed by 10 am
>drank coffee, watched tennis
>cleaned my rooms (no existential benefits detected)
>went to gym and lifted heavy weights
>did more chores at flat
>went for my usual walk while listening to a podcast
>walked through park
>nothing to do; went on underground train and to a famous museum
>walked a bit around there
>now drinking coffee (the sad Sunday coffee, mourning the end of freedom
>planned for yesterday to be the last binge ever but I've seen too many Staceys and gymthots today; need fast food to stop the demoralisation, stat

I read Silicon Valley twitter last night as I got the underground back to my flat, surrounded by happy normies, and it was so demoralising to read stuff by these go getting types. They have property and money and I spend most of my pay on rent and save only a few hundred each month. I'm such a joke.

I'm wondering whether to have a burger king or KFC binge. KFC would be kino if the food was properly cooked and not cold, like it always is.

I'm feeling so pathetic at being almost 30 and never having had a gf or even a date or even flirted with a girl.

I wish I had more savings. If I quit my job and worked at McDonald's while living with my parents, I'd save so much more money. At least my CV is genuinely improving a lot. But only with responsibility, not anything that requires actual skill.

There are now 4 books I want to read right now but I need to finish the boring history book. I've already read 2/3 of it.

I feel slightly noticeably thinner. I think the consistent jogging for the past month has done this.

I think tomorrow will be the day I finally start doing this. I need to stop mentally masturbating over all possibilities in life and just do stuff. I have a fear of being ineffective.

>> No.14523080

>>14523041
Have you considered taking up chain smoking? You'll lose weight really fast and it looks cool.

>> No.14523086

>>14523041
I enjoy the brief flashes of insight followed by interminable inundation in the doldrums. Perhaps some KFC would do you well. What book are you reading? You sure do read a lot of history. Perhaps the books you read would be less boring if you read things that justify your malcontent. May I suggest Sorel?

>> No.14523134

>>14523086
>Perhaps the books you read would be less boring if you read things that justify your malcontent. May I suggest Sorel?

not him but based, what would you suggest?

in that vein, read Fredy Perlman's Against His-Story, Against Leviathan

>> No.14523191

>binging
try cooking. it's fun, cheap, and if a retard like me can pull it off, so can you.
what's your job?
what are the 4 books you got lined up?
ever think about becoming an hero?

>> No.14523204

>>14523134
Londonfrog is utterly disenchanted with soulless modernity and the spiritual vacuity necessary to succeed in it. He also occasionally comes close to intuiting the profound ethical chasm between a producerist and consumerist society. A healthy dose of intellectually-justifiable populist rage would probably make him feel better. Sorel, Carlyle, Lasch, McIntyre, Rieff and Junger. All of whom either engage in angry polemic that is nevertheless correct or use their intelligence to rationally justify irrationality.

>> No.14523251

>>14523204
Any particular works? I've got a craving for that rage right now, I'm getting Perlman withdrawals

>> No.14523281

>>14523041
>Wake up early
>casual morning coffee with tennis
>finishing chores
>noticable bodily progression
>cozy walk in the park
>anticipation for multiple books

Sounds like a kino day LF. You should quit browsing twitter though, nothing is more ensured to bring you dread. Good luck bettering your outlook :)

>> No.14523322

>>14523041
>>went to gym and lifted heavy weights
what numbers are you lifting, londonfrog?

>> No.14523337

Londonfrog should seriously consider becoming an author. I think his outlook on life would resonate with a lot of men experiencing the anomie of our times.

>> No.14523342

>>14523251
Reflections on Violence - Sorel (the revolutionary potential of vital spontaneity)

My Life Among the Deathworks Vol. 1/2/3 - Rieff (western civilization, following the triumph of the therapeutic mindset, is actually the epicenter of cultural deformation in the world)

Storm of Steel - Junger (everyone knows this one, but the glorification of war and its elevation to the realm of metaphysical liberation is the poster-child for the kind of destabilizing irresponsibility we would do well to encourage)

Latter Day Pamphlets - Carlyle (among the many interesting asides here is a bombastic assault on administration, rational bureaucracy, and the domination of expertise and the civil service)

After Virtue - MacIntyre (more philosophical than history, but a critique of the self-satisfied claim of most modern ethicists to "rationality" and its inversion in favor of a communitarian society ordered around the Aristotelian vision of a virtue polis)

And anything by Lasch, really, since he did so much to bring these issues to attention and most of his predictions came true. Culture of Narcissism builds off Rieff and is a moral critique of decadent consumption while The True and Only Heaven is a wide-ranging history and analysis of populist/producerist thought