/lit/ - Literature

>>16008879
woah.............. FUCK...........

>>16008879
Then it's not irrational, owned/trolled

>>16008879
Agreed.

novalis pilled

If something you deem irrational is now thought to be rational, is it not rational to be 'irrational'?

Sometimes being ir is the most thing you can do

>>16008879
Isn't this the message of Notes From the Underground?

>>16008879
People will call you a pseud, but you're getting at something. To think rationally is often a detriment to oneself when under immense stress from something that does not pose an immediate threat. It helps in these situations to preserve irrationality as a defense mechanism from "rationalizing" emotions which you cannot hope to fully understand in the moment.

e.g: traumatic memory, death, grief, etc.

>>16008887
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>>16009085
Please tell me it's not, I was planning on reading that, and I won't waste my time if the conclusion is so stupid.

The real redpill is that almost nobody is actually able to think rationally, at most we can try to get close to it. Just think of your childhood and teenage years, the opinions you've used to hold and how radically different they are from those today.
Almost everyone who presents themselves as the bastion of rationality is always later found to be a quack/delusional.
In the same way people who have experience of the actual thing, i.e. street knowledge, are often smarter about those things than a lot of book smart people.

>>16009475
Yes it partly is, don't be so close-minded and stupid to assume that you hold a greater understanding of human psychology than Dostoevsky, there's a reason why the reverence for him has survived the passage of time

>>16009605
Ahh yes book smart street smart dualism. Book smart ppl are socially retarded if not functionally in some manners like shoe tying while street smart ppl r good at tying shoes, and thus everyone equal. Crisis diverted, democracy saved

>>16010156
Sounds like it's an idiot's interpretation of something he wrote, but
>not having confidence enough in yourself to disagree with someone a lot of people respect
You're a fucking faggot.

>>16010164
What the fuck are you talking about, retard?

>>16010172
This, that guy is blindly appealing to authority.

>>16008879
whoa... deep

>>16008879
True. Nietzsche calls it the will to stupidity being a hallmark virtue of a strong character

>>16009475
no but he does behave irrationally just because

>>16010172
>>16010238

It's one thing to have confidence to challenge a 'great author's' interpretation, another to entirely dismiss it because you regard anything beyond cold objective rationality as a waste of time. All I'm saying is that any 'figure of authority' who has survived the test of time is worth reading and learning something from, only petty people like you think of yourselves as above them.

>>16010744
>It's one thing to have confidence to challenge a 'great author's' interpretation, another to entirely dismiss it because you regard anything beyond cold objective rationality as a waste of time. All I'm saying is that any 'figure of authority' who has survived the test of time is worth reading and learning something from, only petty people like you think of yourselves as above them.

>>16010776
cringe, just shoot yourself now if this is all you are capable of.

>>16009475
>and I won't waste my time if the conclusion is so stupid.
Why is it stupid?

>>16008879
Rationality is an illusion. People can't handle a universe that doesn't make sense.

>>16008879
baby took his first steps to stop being a midwit

How to stop being a midwit. I’m guess I gotta do push-ups and stuff but I’m on my 6th book of the year Don Quixote and it’s a nice story but whats more to this.

>>16008879
This is why I spend $400 every payday on powerball tickets.

>>16008887
BTFO

WRONG. It's never rational to be irrational. Let's say I go on a shooting spree. This is irrational, but oh look, Mr. utilitarian outside observer (some utilitarian god or whoever), I killed a future Hitler who'd have killed 6M people. The only one who knows is the utilitarian outside observer. To him it might look rational to have saved 6M people. But there's no utilitarian outside observer. In reality, it's irrational, because you're uncertain if you killed a future Hitler, being irrational isn't a precedent you can ever set because of this uncertainty.

>>16008887
"Rational" and "correct" are not synonyms.

>>16008879
Sometimes being empathetic is the most pathetic thing you can do