/lit/ - Literature

Just read my diary desu

Unironically The (all 1,000) Arabian Nights. Was a big influence on Murakami's ennui.

>>21445546
how to stop being this

>>21445546
Delete this, I'm on this picture and I don't like it

>>21445546
>accepts his fate but is also constantly analyzing the past
Ishygddt

Isn't all that just something you settle into when your more immature years pass? Thats just what it's all about..

>>21445546
Oblomov

>>21445546
Cioran has a lot of kino on despair and inaction like picrel, in 'A Short History of Decay' and 'The Trouble with Being Born' especially. Somewhat 'entry level' you could say, and leaning into a kind of exultation more often than loathing, but I've been looking and haven't been able to find anything much better.

>>21445546
this fucking hurts dude. whoever wrote this is either experiencing exactly this or is an actual behavior analyst.

There are three other threads like this. learn to use the catalog, newfag.

He's just like me :)
Extension du domaine de la lutte, maybe.

Oblomov.

>>21445546
The Iliad because that’s all Achilles fucking does throughout 90% of the book

This self-indulgent bullshit pains me to no end. Get over yourself and read a nice book about mushroom foraging or the history of labour disputes in the logging industry. If you want to feel the bracing breeze of the abyss, read someone who actually takes you out of yourself, like Bataille, instead of trying to construct a individual gloomy grotto in which to feel indulgently sad.

>>21445546
it is absurd how accurate that is lol

>>21446313
>nice book about mushroom foraging or the history of labour disputes in the logging industry
sounds cozy. what books in particular?

>>21445698
Yea, I'd like to know this aswell, maybe religion

Don't be fooled Anons, OP picture is just equivalent to a horoscope. It's made to be vague and fit as many people as possible so everyone can find a bit of themselves in it. These are common problems people face and have faced for as long as humanity existed.

It can always be worse.

>>21446313
All those suggestions sound pretty dull to me.

>>21446331
I had in mind The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing and The Lumber Industry in Early Modern Japan by Conrad Totman.

Just turned 28 and feel a little called out

>>21446361
>It can always be worse.
Isn't that the point. The image is an evolution of another similar image where anon is younger. I think it was Mencius Moldbug who said Cthulu swims slowly, but always to the left. That's life, it's all downhill while somehow also against gravity.

I recommend Camus.

>>21445546
>Google image search
>Reddit with different pic
>4chan /lit/, no other board whatsoever
/lit/ is much more /r9k/ than /r9k/

>>21445698
>>21446359
Stop thinking constantly about death. You're not going to kill yourself no matter how many times you think it. Suicidal ideation has become nothing more than a bad habit you've imbued yourself with since your teenage years. That is, it's a safe space for (you). Focus your energy on just simply being alive, do things that amount to more life. Figure out what those things are for you- but you already know what they are.
Open your heart boys. Open your heart by opening your eyes.
>picrel

>>21445698
Realize that life is never "going to start". This is it. This is all it's ever. going. to. be. The time to change or do whatever is today, right now, there is no "right time". If you fucked up today, then try again tomorrow. Be like an ox. You've always had this choice and responsibility. It's totally on you if you choose to do nothing. People can forgive you making mistakes and fucking up. They can't forgive you not trying. Really, that's all you gotta do. Just try. Like, actually try. Don't need to make it more complicated than that.
No one is coming for you. No one. We're all too busy dealing with our own shit. It is much much better to realize that you are the only one responsible for your actions when you're 24, than when you're 34. Unironically grow some balls. Stop waiting.

>>21445698
Limit screentime
Physical exercise
Socialization
>But none of that comes naturally to me!
>But I can't do those things before I'm fixed!
>But I don't even really care!
Tough shit that's just how it is
I managed to barely avoid this outcome five years ago and those things were the advice my doctor gave.

>>21446983
Unironically I have more respect for neet losers wallowing in misery their entire wasted lives than a person who actually goes to and even obeys a therapist.

>>21446676
A heroic death is the best thing there is and the only reason to live.

Read Mishima.

>>21445546
My theory is that most people need to be forced out of this either through divine intervention or through community. The reason we see people like this more and more is because communities are becoming less tight knit. Strong community means strong individuals.

>>21447794
Yes, I agree with you. I'll give myself to god, that seems to be the only way

>>21447794
You must have zero self-respect.

>>21447831
Like most people with this problem.

>>21446172

>>21446983
>needed a doctor to tell him to exercise, limit screen time, and be social
oh you're an NPC. if you don't have anything useful to say, just lurk

>>21447904
>>21447767
Crab bucket mentality, stay drowning in inaction if you want. It's not a brave act of rebellion, it's just doing fucking nothing at all

>>21446111
Patrician

>>21448502
>not an act of rebellion
if enough people became neets society would absolutely collapse

>>21445698
Unironically go to therapy, procrastination and schizoid Provisional Life Neurosis are responses to trauma. Just don't go to a Jungian esoteric New Age gobbledygook peddler - you need to be re-trained on a lot of basic things like a person recovering from a stroke, not talk about your Hero's Journey or whatever the fuck. Gestalt or Cognitive Behavior Therapy

>>21449965
aka be Cartman in pic related.

>>21449984
Yes

>>21445698
suicide

>>21446113
>at my expense
kino

>>21445546
Dazai.

If you want to stop, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

>>21447889
Part of the problem is that society has duped everyone into thinking they can le heckin be anyone they want and change anytime!

No. You are who you are for the most part. People will torture themselves over supposed failure their entire life because they aren’t like their hero Danny Phantom who gets girls, good grades and beats up the bully. Some people are just losers. Others are born geniuses and no amount of studying them and trying to ape their life will bring you any closer to some idealized societal version of success. You just have to make the best of the hand you’re given.

>>21449965
Therapy by mainstream academic standards literally only exists to make you a productive wagie and consoomer.

t. was well on my way to becoming a therapist, became too disgusted by everyone around me and their absolute serfdom and conformity, starting with basic cognitive functions and thought policing

>>21450066
Did it surprise you in the least that anyone trying to get into an established profession through academia has to conform to the culture? Yes we live in a society. It has to be this way and always will. You may as well put up with it and become a part of it if it means you can make a lot of money and secure a future for your offspring. But if you can do that through other mean good for you.

>>21450066
>literally only exists to make you a productive wagie and consoom
Oh wow how horrible, better he stays an avoidant procrastinating schizoid until his 40s when the realization that he's all out of "I'll give it another try and turn it around" moments and kills himself

>>21450091
It's not conforming to any "culture", it's conforming to capitalist techno-pharmacological elites that peddle poison to the masses in more or less blatant forms, ruining functional healthcare systems through economisation with more or less coercion and enforce a "culture" of unquestionable conformity and functionality in society for their profit, making it increasingly hard to find any places that I would even want to bring offspring into because they only feasible way to nourish them in an unpoisoned environment would be to beat most of the people who surround them everyday to death. That said I live in a cursed country that has offered the perfect soil for all these physical and mental degeneracies to flourish and I will leave here anyway.

>>21450138
I didn't say that would be better, I'm also not saying it would be worse. Suicide could be considered preferable to life at any cost but to each his own.

>>21450152
touch grass

>>21450163
Bitch I grew up in mountainous forests helping my parents farm and tend to the horses, enjoying the intellectual and cultural pinnacles of the last millenia in retrospect and growing to full bloom.

I can guarantee from experience though that 99% of the conformist, medicated, sedated, degenerate, terminally unhealthy and ideologically programmed human excrement you will find in psychology departments never does that though.

>>21445546
Why is it that almost only white dudes end up this way? As a honky, it’s exclusively other honky dudes I know that do this shit, and they’re also the ones most likely to blame “woke society” or whatever for why they can’t succeed

>>21450207
>imagine depicts absolute loners isolated from society in the extreme
>yeah I know a bunch of guys like that
Is it because you're posting retarded bait? I wonder how bitter and brown your hands have to be to type this dreck, lmao.

>>21450469
image*

And since this is a thinly veiled literature thread I strongly recommend the works of Seneca, it doesn't matter if you're a christ-larper or a classical coper, he is revered by both groups for a reason. He makes practical and convincing cases of moral behavior irrespective of any foundational thought.