/lit/ - Literature

>>14860824
yes, trashy genre fiction most of all

Yeah
Read Quixote

>AAAAHHH PLAAATOOOOO OOOOOHHHH START WITH THE GREEEEEEEEKSSSSS AAAAHHH I'M REEEEAAAAADDDIIIIIINNNNGGG AAAAHHHH DECONSTRUCT MEEEEEE DADDYYYYY AAAAAHHHHH

You know the rest

>>14860824
Yes, those who buy brand new editions of books they already have. Nothing wrong if you buy them for almost nothing from the hands of someone who doesn't know the real price of the book, but spending thousands of dollars on brand new: Deluxe, limited, Easton Press, Folio Society, deluxe 2.0, anniversary, limited 2.0, anniversary again edition of, let's say, The Lord of The Rings (a book with more editions than stars in the sky), are retarded.

>>14860824
Wow, OP's image is literally me.

being unemployed is a good thing.

>>14860858
that man just summed it up. also, reading something solely to namedrop to sound smart, or buying books for decoration (people like this exist, seen it firsthand)

>>14860914
Based and NEETpilled
Contributing to the system is immoral

>>14860914
having some work is good for you, but i dont mean a real job - most helpful activities wont be included in an actual profession. stay NEET officially, hardworking and learning behind the papers. dont pay taxes from your odd income.
together we are strong, bros. dont rot on your couch - find a thing to do.

>>14860992
Shut the fuck up idiot

>>14860999
Be nice anon

>>14860999
trips of denial
you MUST occupy yourself with something to not become apathetic and braindead. le ""depression"" and """"anxiety"""" are so prevalent in the 20-30 year olds exactly because their wageslave jobs are nonsensial, without real value, accomplishing nothing while draining them of any energy to engage in quality past-time. it's a time filler with zero spiritual value. their brain is anxious to find a real thing to do.
stay NEET, but find a good hobby or volunteer somewhere, farms are top tier because animals are always grateful for your effort

>>14860992
absolutely based, I'd call the department but I'm pretty sure you work there already

>>14861121
>farms are top tier because animals are always grateful for your effort

Based and primpilled.

Fuck modernity and fuck technology.

Yes if you read contemporary stuff or actually pay for books. Which is what only bugmen and women do.

>>14861121
TLDR

>>14861128
Then get off the internet then

>>14861129
Redpillme on why not pay for books

>>14860925
>buying books for decoration (people like this exist, seen it firsthand)
Those are called "display books". I know two bookstores in my city (Tokyo) that "specializes" in that, they're always full of Instagram whores. I go there from time to time to save some books.

>>14860824
Definitely.

You either consume or create media. Reading literature still makes you a consumer, albeit a higher brow consumer than those who consume most other forms of media.

>>14861124
how did you know? just finished hanging out with collegues, pic related
>>14861128
modernity, despite its flaws, is good for we have the freedom to reject its downs and thrive on its ups. i'm, for one, glad there is technology to effectively replace hard animal labor, farm animals are frens and can have a better life now
sorry for my retarded esl punctuation

>>14861128
you need technology to take better care of your animal friends though
medicine, bugs and better food

>>14861150
I can't. I'm trapped in a city working a wageslave job because you need to literally be a millionaire to live in the countryside (In Britain). I'm economically imprisoned against my will.

>>14861145
find a hobby, new subject to learn or interesting thing to devote your time to so you're not wasting it. boredom and idleness are the root of your depressed state

>>14861153
Because everything worth reading is free domain?

>>14861170
workaway dot info
search for "farm" or something alike in your country or area, people are offering boarding, food and more for your help, usually just 5 hours a day

>>14861185
The issue with this is it's not long term. If I don't earn money to buy my own land, at some point I'm going to be too old to do this kind of work and then I'll be fucked.

But thanks for the link anyway bro, I will check it out.

>>14860824
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYuUXrZonu4

>>14861230
wow

>>14860867
:(

>>14860824
Post your shelf/stack/haul thread!

>>14861725
post all le books you will never read!!!!!! 1ST EDITIONS THO

>>14860824
yes look at any girl on booktube, buys dozens of books a month and reads under 10 it's disgusting, it can also be seen in anyone who has books on their bookshelf they haven't read or spends more time talking about books than then do reading

>>14860992
Based. The only reason I took up certain activities was to keep my mind occupied while neeting. When I was a neet I started reading, sketching, hiking, doing soft poetry, etc

But since I got a job I have no time for that, all I do is work, video games, drink and sleep. I feel worse.

>>14861725
I LOVE buying products and showing people the products that I have bought!

>>14860992
in the uk any earnings under 12k don't require you to pay tax and so long as you never have over 6k in the bank you don't get reduction of benefits, comfy for being a working neet

>>14861947
is te work at least worth it? i have decided to not pursue prestigious work or wealth in general. to be honest with myself, i dont need much at all. so why sacrifice domestic freedom and comfy lifestyle to earn money i don't need?
>>14861988
seems great, 500-1000£ of spare cash a month on top of benefits must feel like real first world life

>>14861853
>open some videos on the "recommended" bar
>there are billions of these broads
>all with the same shallow personalities
>all contain puddle-deep analysis
>all have 50k+ or 100k+ views on every vid

This has got to be managed by jew "agents" who know exactly what they're doing. This is a whole little cottage industry. Not just the ad revenue, but spinning each girl off into a little social media empire, and using this as a platform to sell crappy books. Guaranteed audience of dim-witted women.

Imagine how much of the evil and ugliness of the present world would just vanish if we banished this sort of usury and racketeering from commerce. The sinews of finance capital would be severed. They wouldn't be able to astroturf and artificially "promote" spiritually diseased content like this booktube bullshit. Authentic hobbyism could breathe again, humans would gradually return to normal, women might even stop being thots.

>>14860992
holy basederoni

>>14861230
what is this funny little creature

>>14862489
Your competition butterfly and shes not some 40 year old cat lady

>>14861230
The first book she talks about is the Republic by Plato, she says she doesn't like it because she doesn't like thinking

>>14862509
was she on special books by special kids?

>>14862489
A girl who will never touch you.

>>14860824
Harry potter, the hunger games, and fifty shades of grey are ultimate consoomer literature

>>14860914
Work is good, but waged labour is not. To truly free work we should end the wage as it exists today and set up a universal salary system with possibilities of upscaling if you persist in specialisation. To free labour, we must abolish wages and specialistation - read Bernard Friot and Ivan Illich

>>14860824
Yes because of shitty genre fiction as mentioned already by other anons. Additionally this guy >>14861725 is correct, its such consoomer behaviour to show off what you bought rather than discussing what you read.
>>14860850
Based as well
>>14862570
Are you serious?

>>14862736
Yup, she also said she's not 'big brained' enough for philosophy, but is taking a course in philosophy.

>>14860824
yeah i guess you could be a consuoomer that buys nothing but new york times best sellers

>>14861230
>studying philosophy
>don't like thinking
>leaves in the clap sync for some reason
>tons of jumpcuts
>but leaves in the stuttering

>>14861179
But it's nice holding a book and having an activity that doesn't involve looking at a screen