/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10480711]

Which disease might I consciously attempt to infect myself with as a means of having a justifiable reason to live the truNEET literary lifestyle?

Writers like Kafka, Hubert Selby Jr, Flannery O'Connor, Robert Louis Stevenson, Friedrich Schiller, William Somerset Maugham, Elizabeth Barrett Browning etc all suffered from comfy non-immediately-life-threatening diseases while writing their best works, and thus didn't have to suffer the indignities of a full-time job.

I've thought about tuberculosis for example, but the effort involved in actually catching it seems unreasonable strenuous. Any other suggestions?

[Anonymous No.10480712]

>>10480711
The only intentionally funny post I've ever seen on here.

[Anonymous No.10480718]

>>10480711
>Hubert Selby Jr
I'd say you're already infected with cancer

[Anonymous No.10480741]

>>10480711
Lurking gor extreme interest, I have been chasing this dragon f8r years OP

[Anonymous No.10480747]

>>10480711
Autism

[Anonymous No.10480798]

>>10480711
You don't need a disease. You need courage and conviction. I'm a perfectly healthy man who has been NEET for years.

[Anonymous No.10480803]

>>10480711
HIV my man

[Anonymous No.10480840]

>>10480711
>Writers like Kafka [...]suffered from comfy non-immediately-life-threatening diseases while writing their best works
Kafkas illness made eating too painful to endure and he fucking starved to death.

[Anonymous No.10480850]

>>10480840
Ummm, no sweetie:

>"He had been diagnosed with tuberculosis at age 30 and as a result, in August 1917 at age 34 [3], he moved to the small Bohemian village of Zürau to live with his sister on a farm. There he was able to write extensively without being bothered by having to work at a job."

>"This would be remembered by Kafka as the most enjoyable period of his life [4], for despite his illness he was now able to wake in the afternoon as he preferred and write throughout the night. In her letters, Kafka's sister recalls her brother "practically crying tears of joy" as he learned of his diagnosis from Dr. Liepszche. "Never have I seen my brother so contented," she writes to their mother in 1914, "Franz wakes most days shortly after midday and enjoys a long solitary stroll before returning for a hearty lunch and then locks himself away with his books through most of the night. He very much reminds me of a happy child lost in imagination."

http://www.drmirkin.com/weekly-ezine-page/franz-kafka-and-tuberculosis.html

[Anonymous No.10480928]

>>10480850
>>"This would be remembered by Kafka as the most enjoyable period of his life [4], for despite his illness he was now able to wake in the afternoon as he preferred and write throughout the night. In her letters, Kafka's sister recalls her brother "practically crying tears of joy" as he learned of his diagnosis from Dr. Liepszche. "Never have I seen my brother so contented," she writes to their mother in 1914, "Franz wakes most days shortly after midday and enjoys a long solitary stroll before returning for a hearty lunch and then locks himself away with his books through most of the night. He very much reminds me of a happy child lost in imagination."

[Anonymous No.10480938]

>>10480850
wtf i LOVE tuberculosis now
GIVE ME TUBERCULOSIS NOOOOWWWWW

[Anonymous No.10480939]

>>10480798
Give us some pointers, please

[Anonymous No.10480948]

>>10480939
He doesn't have pointers beyond "live with your daddy well into adulthood".

[Anonymous No.10480970]

>>10480850
We are economic auto-didacts, self-taught philosophers and gifted visionaries. While others waste their life labouring under the orders of those who see only material cost in life, we pursue leisure above all else, knowing as we do that leisure and time to oneself is the basis of genius. Despite many people disliking the culture and society they help maintain through their work, and despite understanding now that we have only a single life on earth and that any meaning we attribute to it as the result of self-willed or socially-inculcated ideologies, they continue to wake early and trudge to their jobs for one single reason: Guilt. Throughout time religions have taken advantage of Man's guilt, a guilt experienced for no logical reason except that he unlike other animals is a self-aware being whose abstract thoughts conflict with the apparently practical, rational reality he finds himself a part of. We post-guilt NEETs will not bow to internal or external pressures encouraging us to sacrifice our contentment and sensitive dispositions for the sake of attaining money, or womenfolk. We alone stand proudly, detached from but keenly observant of the slave masses who yell at us for not being as unhappy as they are. We alone, we band of true men, defend our right to live a dignified life against those wishing to deprive of us of it. Yes you can mock, you can criticize, you can echo the demands your masters make upon you. But who is likely to regret their lives more? The noble and dignified NEETs who spend their truly precious time reading, pondering, philosophizing and engaging in critical, urgent debate online? Or the miserable, resentful masses, their eyes bloated and sagged by excess folds of skin, their hair falling out and their gums bleeding from stress, their bowels destroyed by a sedentary lifestyle spent at their desks clicking endlessly while their boss breaths down their necks? This is reality. This is 2017. We are the future.

[Anonymous No.10480971]

>>10480711
This thread is real old school /lit/.

[Anonymous No.10480992]

>>10480803
This. You can totally keep it under control with todays medicine. Becoming a flamming faggot is surely the most /lit/ thing you can do.

[Anonymous No.10480995]

>>10480992
HIV doesn't mean you can be NEET since as it is easily controlled now by one pill a day with no symptoms.

[Anonymous No.10481011]

>>10480995
Can confirm. I'm pozzed.

[Anonymous No.10481034]

Mental illness is the thing these days.

I got myself a schizoid badge and live the comfy NEETbux hermit lifestyle. Haven't done any slave labour since summer 2012. It's great.

[Anonymous No.10481036]

>>10481034
One psychiatrist thought I was Schizoid but then they said I was autistic after closer examination.

[Anonymous No.10481053]

>>10481036
With me it was exactly the other way around.

Tbh I think schizoid is a more aesthetic word and it is less memed to death as a condition so I prefer it.

It also doesn't mean a whole lot, but when you tell a normie they think of schizophrenia so they are sufficiently convinced you're madman.

[Anonymous No.10481060]

>>10481053
Schizoid seems to be used interchangeably with Schizophrenia in a lot of books and movies I have read and seen.

[Anonymous No.10481101]

>>10480711
MOSSACK! DISHA, DISHA.

[Anonymous No.10481114]

>>10480939
What kind of pointers? The point of being NEET is that it's easy and natural. It's work (and by work I mean employment, not putting forth effort) that's shameful and unnatural.

[Anonymous No.10481599]

Nabokov had psoriasis. I've got it too. However it is not fun and it is not contagious, it is chronic.

[Anonymous No.10481612]

>>10481599
continued. Although I doubt it gets you out of work or any disability living allowance. It makes me sad sometimes, that I have one life and I am stuck with this shit disease in this shit country that's on the decline.

[Anonymous No.10481958]

People see disease as romantic but really its just painful, boring and saddening knowing you have shit genes

[Anonymous No.10481964]

You want something which will classify as a disability, but nothing too inconvenient or painful. Preferably something you can fake easily. Various mental illnesses are a choice, but you'd have to be very good at acting in order to fake them well enough to fool a medical professional over a long period of time. Theres also the risk that they might send you to the looney bin which is probably not very comfy.

Amputating a limb might work, preferably just one of your legs so you can still move around somewhat. would be very painful though.

[Anonymous No.10481966]

>>10481958
Fatalism can be comfy though.

[Anonymous No.10481970]

>>10481599
>>10481612
What so one of your eyes is a little lazy? Man up faggot.

[Anonymous No.10481972]

>>10481964
Someone wanting to be removed from normie life so bad they want mental illness diagnosis are generally really weird enough to qualify though.

[Anonymous No.10481980]

>>10481599
>>10481612
Worried I might have some early form of that, big patch of skin on my neck keeps going in and out of looking like red lizard skin and some crawling down from the corners of the nape of my scalp.
My doctor didn't make much of it last I checked but I don't trust her

[Anonymous No.10481985]

>>10481970
>Man up faggot.

[Anonymous No.10481990]

>>10481964
>>10481964
>>10481964
>>10481964

[Anonymous No.10481999]

>>10480850
wew lad, it hurts that I can’t live like that

[Anonymous No.10482070]

>>10480711
Diogenes

[Anonymous No.10483196]

>>10481970
Lazy eyes? What?

[Anonymous No.10483201]

>>10481980
Get some fairly plain moisturizer thats cheap. Like Aveeno or something like that. Get some sun on it and eat healthier. It might go away.

[Anonymous No.10483400]

>>10480711
lol hate this post so much as someone who is chronically ill and doesn't even get any disability gibs or any perks for it

[Anonymous No.10484591]

>>10480711
Paranoid schizophrenia is easy enough to fake and you're probably at an age where symptoms would first start to manifest. Periodic institutionalizations are great for when you're overcome with the need to socialize. Medications can be disposed of with very little effort, or consumed when you're feeling bored. Pick up a copy of the DSM and do a bit of research before getting yourself diagnosed, though. Wouldn't want to go getting yourself slapped with the wrong label!

[Anonymous No.10484608]

>>10480970
It is not 2017

[Anonymous No.10484991]

I honestly asked myself this last night:
Are NEETS the modern men of leisure?

Think about the leisure men of the past 200 years and the things they enjoyed doing, then consider what they may be doing instead had they been alive in modern day (probably masturbating to cartoon girls too)

[Anonymous No.10485025]

>>10484991
You have to understand that only since around the 1950s has there been a socio-economic climate which compels every single individual member of a society to justify their existence in market terms, i.e. according to their function within the market. Whereas in previous eras the notion of a Nation was so easily defined (despite Slavic, Jewish influxes etc) and the social classes was so conspicuously distinct that the upper classes and those of the middle class capable of living a life of leisure needn't have to even justify their lifestyle, in today's world where borders have been destroyed and the majority of people have been lifted from serfdom or trade-bondage (e.g. raised to be a farmer, a blacksmith, a housekeeper etc) into what appears on the face of it to be free market careerism, and various other factors including debt slavery etc...someone just demanded my attention and I lost my focus on what I was saying.

[Anonymous No.10485032]

>>10484991
No because 95% of NEETs are not so by choice but forced to be due to them not being able to fulfil a societal job due to some form of deficit that makes it impossible.

[Anonymous No.10485734]

>>10485032
inNEETs are failed normies, true, but there are plenty of volNEETs around who unemployed out of sheer passion and dedication to the leisurely life.

[Anonymous No.10486034]

>>10485734
You may think you're a volneet whatever that is but you are not really.