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10686725 No.10686725 [Reply] [Original]

Am I wrong in thinking that the current state of affairs isn't as catastrophic as this book claims it is? Or is that just my capitalistic brainwashing speaking? The authors unironically think that sitting in a cubicle all day and being forced to do silly "teambuilding exercises" is worthy of suicide. This strikes me as an extremely privileged position to take. There are billions of people in the world who don't even have the privilege to sit in a cool, air-conditioned office and yet here the authors are, complaining.

In any case, they don't really provide any answer to the question of how to escape the working world, except for vague things about tsunamis, constantly moving, and little girls.

>> No.10686751

Ask the neets then. How sitting around all day doing nothing is going for them.

For all their ridicule of wagies, they are a really miserable bunch.

>> No.10686829
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10686829

If a man knows the wherefore of his existence, then the manner of it can take care of itself. Man does not aspire to happiness; only the Englishman does that

>> No.10686840

>>10686829
>If a man knows the wherefore of his existence
That's literally impossible to know. Guess we're fucked.

>> No.10686886

>>10686725
Your adolescent resentment and envy for others' material comforts doesn't make their lives more worthwhile and less painful.

Victimhood is not a competition. Your pity is not a prize to be awarded only to the most unworthy. Spiritual turmoil and psychological suffering is something that can afflict all peoples and levels of society, and ignoring this reality is precisely what causes the problem to fester and metastasize

There are many, many individuals who are smarter than you, more successful than you, more attractive than you, more talented than you, and wealthier than you, and they can still suffer profoundly over the course of their lives. You will probably join them in pain if you continue to succumb to consumerist jealousy and petty evil

>> No.10686968

No but really, how the fuck do I get off this ride? The book mentioned something about "symbolic suicide" but I have no idea what that means.

>> No.10686990

>>10686840
Then we approximate it and cross our fingers. Quit being a wet blanket.

>> No.10687014

>>10686968
>"symbolic suicide" but I have no idea what that means.
throw yourself in front of a monday morning rush hour train.

>> No.10687042

>>10686968
they probably mean that in the Lacanian sense

>> No.10687090

Do they say anything about more hands on, skilled trades kind of jobs?

>> No.10687267

>>10687090
They mostly focus on office work, but their criticisms apply to all jobs. One of their main criticisms is of the increasingly blurred line between "life" and "work". So I suppose if you are very invested in a trade - so much so that you identify yourself with that trade - then you might not have that strict cut-off point during the day where you stop thinking about work completely and go back to living your life.

>> No.10687777

>>10687267
>increasingly blurred line between work and life.

Isn’t it decreasing?

>> No.10687886

>>10687777
How do you measure?