/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10931417]

why is everyone so depressed? any /lit/ for this?

[Anonymous No.10931534]

>>10931417
Probably all literature ever written

[Anonymous No.10931540]

>>10931417
literally none, keep watching anime

[Anonymous No.10931683]

>>10931417
Industrial Society and its Future

[Anonymous No.10931772]

>>10931417
A Thousand Plateaus

[Anonymous No.10931884]

Enjoying our symptoms

[Anonymous No.10931906]

This article really changed my perspectives.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/john-zerzan-the-mass-psychology-of-misery

[Anonymous No.10931919]

>>10931417
It is commonly assumed that capitalism has created an a-emotional world dominated by bureaucratic rationality; that economic behavior conflicts with intimate, authentic relationships; that the public and private spheres are irremediably opposed to each other; and that true love is opposed to calculation and self-interest.
Eva Illouz rejects these conventional ideas and argues that the culture of capitalism has fostered an intensely emotional culture in the workplace, in the family, and in our own relationship to ourselves. She argues that economic relations have become deeply emotional, while close, intimate relationships have become increasingly defined by economic and political models of bargaining, exchange, and equity. This dual process by which emotional and economic relationships come to define and shape each other is called emotional capitalism. Illouz finds evidence of this process of emotional capitalism in various social sites: self-help literature, women's magazines, talk shows, support groups, and the Internet dating sites. How did this happen? What are the social consequences of the current preoccupation with emotions? How did the public sphere become saturated with the exposure of private life? Why does suffering occupy a central place in contemporary identity? How has emotional capitalism transformed our romantic choices and experiences? Building on and revising the intellectual legacy of critical theory, this book addresses these questions and offers a new interpretation of the reasons why the public and the private, the economic and the emotional spheres have become inextricably intertwined.

[Anonymous No.10931926]

>>10931417
>why is everyone so depressed?
source?

[Anonymous No.10931957]

>>10931926
Our diaries

[Anonymous No.10931976]

>>10931417
It depends entirely on your own condition. When you're miserable, you think the whole world is. Same with when you're happy.

[Anonymous No.10931985]

>>10931957
Oh

[Anonymous No.10932006]

>>10931417
isn't literally all art really about dealing with the ultimate sadness of death and tragedy of a finite fragile life. so find whatever helps YOU

[Anonymous No.10932052]

You can read Dosto, Camus, Fernando Pessoa if you want sad shit.

[Anonymous No.10932106]

>>10931417
Speak for yourself, I'm pretty happy

[Anonymous No.10932123]

>>10931417
dysgenic selection, high time preference+low stress tolerance, social epiatasis depressing group fitness from spiteful mutations, atomization, sluggish societal schizophrenia, looming ecocide, blue screen addiction, death of art and discourse, culture industry cannibalizing of oversoul, epistemological fracturing, global MK Ultra to install hyper-thanatos instinct, excision of sexuality frim psycho-spiritual analogues

[Anonymous No.10932145]

>>10932123
can you word that without sounding like a humongus cocksucker ?

[Anonymous No.10932156]

It is the human condition. A side effect of having complex emotions, thoughts and ideas.

[Anonymous No.10932160]

>>10931417
there puttin chemicals in the water that turn the fukin frogs gay

[Anonymous No.10932166]

>>10932145
no. unthinking subhuman

[Anonymous No.10932206]

>>10932166
either you're an underage edgy teen or a woman

[Anonymous No.10932231]

>>10931417
Find Jesus

[Anonymous No.10932247]

>>10931919
It has nothing to do with "capitalism." There is a foreign tribe poisoning white culture, that's the source of the problem. Jews did the same thing in Russia, and Russia has finally turned that around, but most of the jews who were doing it over there fled here.

[Anonymous No.10932253]

>>10932106
Me too lad. What makes me happier, to be honest, is that I don’t worry about the stupid bullshit other people do.

[Anonymous No.10932262]

>>10932247
back to /pol/

[Anonymous No.10932270]

>>10931417
I'm reading From Dawn to Decadence right now and Barzun really sold me on pic related. His passage on Burton has made this book top priority on my backlog.

[Anonymous No.10932317]

>>10932247
It has nothing to do with "foreign tribes." You are a prole, and wealthy elites don't back proles except when it turns a profit for them to do so.

[Anonymous No.10932343]

>>10932317
>It has nothing to do with "foreign tribes."
It has everything to do with the foreign tribe running white cultural institutions and generating the degenerate, anti-white content that leads to so many whites feeling depressed and having less hope than they should in life. That's the point of it. It's not complicated.

[Anonymous No.10932378]

THE FOUNDATION FOR EXPLORATION EXPLAINS ALL.

[Anonymous No.10932380]

>>10932343
>It's not complicated.
Definitely not. But you're a prole, so you don't get the full picture, and have to simplify what is already a simple matter in order to make sense of what's happening to you.

The fact of the matter is that the more individualist a person is, the more evil that person is (as in the more they will have no issue with exploiting the exploitable), regardless of race. Whites are the most individualist of them all. Jews are an inversion to whites; they are the least individualist, yet just as evil. However, it is always white individualists who let in the Jews in order to control them, and it is always the proles of white society who are hurt by it, and who suffer from the control that Jews end up being handed the most (and Jews do obtain control, because as stated before, they are designated certain amounts of it by the white individualists, who acknowledge their capacity to be evil despite being collectivist, which white individualists see as exploitable). Long story short, white individualists are the cause of it all, the entire thing, and always will be, and you are fighting a smaller battle in a much larger war, which in fact only spans between different individuals across the world, who trample over the proles such as yourself in various ways.

[Anonymous No.10932396]

Everyone is depressed because they believe life is anything but an endless series of frustrations of desires. They want things they cannot achieve. They do not make realistic goals worthy of themselves and then work towards those goals with genuine effort.

I used to be very depressed but I began ignoring what I see on Facebook and the news and started finding small ways to improve myself, one after another and working on them genuinely. Fix my acne. Workout. Lose weight. Get strong. Start dressing a little bit nicer. Read books I enjoy more. Work harder at school. Go to more social clubs, make more friends. It's a slow process but my life has gone from wanting suicide age 12-17 almost continuously to only getting depressed for short periods a few times a year

[Anonymous No.10932398]

>>10932343
no its just technocapital, there is no evidence for anything else. high technology and high iq, correlate with lower fertility, dysgenic breeding and societal schizo behavior. jews have nothing to do with it as a causal factor, there are barely any jews in japan or sweden and they also have reduced fertility, declining culture, heightened social malaise, degrading sustainability of ecosystems

[Anonymous No.10932402]

>>10931683
broke
>>10931772
woke

[Anonymous No.10932404]

>>10932380
If I was a prole I wouldn't have been making most of your own points longer than you've even been aware of them. Whites being hyper-individualistic does not take away from the fact that jews are the problem that has to be dealt with and removed. Whites can police and deal with our own. You, however, should be less antagonistic toward people who speak about the jewish problem, you're doing little good here.

[Anonymous No.10932426]

>>10932404
If you were making those points already, why are you saying shit like "it has EVERYTHING to do with the foreign tribe"?

>you're doing little good here
I find it just as important to strengthen individuals as it is to strengthen nations.

[Anonymous No.10932428]

>>10932398
This argument doesn't make any sense. Shit doesn't just happen and jews run the entire media apparatus and more in Sweden. They are the root cause. Capitalism does not have a singular trajectory either, it bends to the will of policy makers. The problem is capitalism in the west is working in jewish globalist interests instead of white national interests.

[Anonymous No.10932443]

>>10932426
Jews are running our cultural institutions. Those institutions produce degenerate anti-white propaganda and filth. They are the problem here. Yes, whites have allowed them to obtain this control and we should look internally, but that doesn't change the basic facts in this equation.

[Anonymous No.10932456]

>>10932443
>and we should look internally
Why should we? There's absolutely nothing wrong with white individualists exploiting people who are exploitable. You say this because you're a prole with a prole's morality, that's why. Your previous statement "If I was a prole I wouldn't have been making most of your own points longer than you've even been aware of them" is thus bullshit to just get me to shut up.

[Anonymous No.10932460]

>>10932456
>>10932443
>>10932428
>>10932426
>>>/Pol/

[Anonymous No.10932472]

>>10932456
You're a sperg. Whites can corral our own who leave the reservation and don't act in the interests of their people, that's not the issue. The issue is the jewish people exploiting them and using them to further jewish interests. Screw your head on straight.

[Anonymous No.10932478]

>>10931417
Because people lack purpose in our modern society. America has become a nation of cultural castaways. A rapidly changing economy moving towards automation and a massive demographic shift has left a large part of the population feeling lost.

[Anonymous No.10932507]

>>10932472
>You're a sperg.
>Screw your head on straight.
What makes you flounder with such petty insults, anon? Not getting laid enough?

The "issue" is that white individualists of the US may or may not be losing their iron grasp that they have had on the nation, due to their own actions. But there is still no real evidence of this happening yet. I don't buy into prole hysteria that /pol/ likes to spread around.

[Anonymous No.10932527]

>>10932507
You simply aren't making any sense. Your POV is likely nonsensical anyway, but if you want anyone to engage with it you should do a better job of explaining it.

[Anonymous No.10932540]

>>10932478
I largely blame loss of faith in religion and the rise of "scientism" which denies and suppresses the human intuition for the lack of purpose.

[Anonymous No.10932559]

>>10932527
>You simply aren't making any sense.
Well, you're a hysterical prole, so it's not surprising you'd say this.

[Anonymous No.10932628]

>>10932559
The problem is you. I'm glad you get the JQ more or less, but try to gain some long-term perspective and stop pointing the guns inward.

[Anonymous No.10932685]

>>10932628
>People who don't perfectly conform with my plans to convert a non-political board into a quasi-tribal, quasi-religious pseudo-intellectual wasteland that finds individualism questionable is a problem.
All this talk about protecting your own, yet you're promoting the values of your enemy. Why is that?

[Anonymous No.10932747]

>>10932685
White racial awareness does not negate white individualistic nature; if anything it informs it and puts it into perspective.

[Anonymous No.10932823]

>>10932747
That would be all fine and dandy if you dropped the quasi-religious "You just aren't enlightened like me" attitude which implies a secret interest in the dissolution of individualism in favor of a prole collectivism. But you or your other missionary buddies never do, so expect to receive relentless resistance to your "cause," which is not only a natural response but a proper one for non-political boards surrounding a specialized field.

[Anonymous No.10933912]

>>10931417
>why is everyone so depressed?
porn/drug addiction

[Anonymous No.10933936]

-gadno adfjoadi jarijiajdo ji iaj dfadfj

[Anonymous No.10934263]

>>10931957
desu

[Anonymous No.10934280]

Because pursuing self-interest is not fulfilling. Serving the community is. But there is no communitt anymore, only you. And how many people have killed themselves because there was only themselves.

[Anonymous No.10934297]

>>10933912
Which of course have been perpetrated mainly by jews.

Here's an article where jews brag about running the porn industry and using it to attack whites:

http://jewishquarterly.org/issuearchive/articled325.html?articleid=38

Here's one about the jewish Sackler family famous for creating the opioid epidemic:

https://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2017/10/18/meet-the-jewish-family-making-billions-from-the-opioid-crisis/

Jews are very bad people who need to be removed from white societies.