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Reading feels so unsatisfying these days. It is a consumercuck activity

>> No.10755996

>>10755986
Start with the Greeks

>> No.10756004

>>10755986
Your conclusion doesn't follow from the premise.

>> No.10756007

Maybe if you read more books and less 4chan you wouldn't be dismissing things with brainlet terms like cuck

>> No.10756016

>>10755986
>books are consumerist
What are you reading?

>> No.10756178

How many books have you read this year OP? Which ones?

>> No.10756221

>>10756178

Think
War and peace (started it last year)
Brideshead Revisited
Two history books about the Romans which I enjoyed the most but still left me feeling like a consumercuck

>> No.10756224

>>10756221
Sounds like your own insecurities are to blame more than the books

>> No.10756232

>>10756221
Go to the library and read for free instead dawg

>> No.10756287

You're right OP, you're just missing the right terminology. Consuming knowledge is the same as consuming mass media. Turn to mysticism. Real knowledge comes from intuition, not external sources.

>> No.10756293

>>10756287
>sex is fleeting and dissatisfying so just masturbate instead

>> No.10757044

>>10756004
what a cucked way of thinking

bet you are a cunt

>> No.10757053

>>10756287
>Real knowledge comes from intuition, not external sources.
This

>> No.10757054

>>10756016
he's not

>> No.10757087
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10757087

Book culture is as much of a product as television

Wasn't that the point of Don Quixote?

OP is actually correct here

>> No.10757097

>>10757087
>wasn't that the point of Don Quixote
Fuck no.

>> No.10757128

>>10757087
Quixote was kind of a cautionary tale about people who took books too seriously. I think the movie Videodrome fits Quixote better. As for OP the lack of feeling from reading is like the talking walls in Fahrenheit 451, voices just telling you what you want to hear.

>> No.10757136

>>10757097
give me just one or a couple themes you got from don quixote you brainlet

you can be as brief or comprehensive as you want but back up that you actually understand it

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10757149

>Cant seem to finish any books
Are there any books which hooks you instantly?

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10757190

>>10757149
read short stories and poetry and laugh at everybody else

>> No.10757252

>>10757097
>>10757136
hah. figures. brainlet

>> No.10757277

>>10755986
It's only consumerist if you've objectified your own person to the point that your own thoughts have become status symbols.

>> No.10757311

>>10756287
Plato believed something like this. Start with the greeks OP
>>10755996
FPBP

>> No.10757315

>>10755986
life is consumption, you cant escape it

>> No.10757319

>>10757315
production-consumption is the real false dichotomy that I wish marxists discussed instead of this male-female false dichotomy bullshit

good job liberals

>> No.10758299

>>10757128
>Quixote was kind of a cautionary tale about people who took books too seriously.
theres no way the novels meaning is that straightforward

>> No.10758328

>>10757315
>life is the opposite of what defines it
wow really makes you think post-modern corporate fascist-chan wow

>> No.10758335

>>10755986
Why would you even read when you can watch some M*A*S*H?

>> No.10758424

>>10758335
because 90s born queers can't enjoy that boomer shit
I enjoyed homicide life on the street and lonesome dove though

>> No.10758440

>>10755996
fpbp

>>10755986
Stop being a loser on 4chan. Go for a walk. Appreciate the beauty of nature, it costs nothing. Let your mind wander free from the civilization that has created the word 'consumercuck' in your mind. Contemplate the lives of the ancient Greeks, who lived in a sun soaked paradise and their daily worries. Listen to the Yale open courses lectures and learn about how they created democracy.

You're alright OP. I wouldn't put your name on an ostrakon, not yet.

>> No.10758490

The londonfrog now conceals his threads, mods please

>> No.10758778

>>10755986

Philosophy is garbage.
So are scifi and fantasy.
So are biographies.
So are so called historical text.

Just read activist text that lay out plans of action, or engineering text so you can build or fix something.

Anything else is a distraction or propaganda.

>> No.10758803

>>10757149
Thought I was the only one
Idk if what I'm reading is trash or it's me

>> No.10758827

>>10758778
you should kys

>> No.10758834

>>10758328
I'd crush you irl, nerd

>> No.10759000

>>10758827

>hurr durr stop making me think about how i'm wasting my life

Good. Get mad. Now do something. Don't waste away in a corner, consuming.

>> No.10759142

>>10759000
>>Good. Get mad. Now do something. Don't waste away in a corner, consuming.
I haven't been mad in 8 years, I'm too scared to go outside