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12604807 No.12604807 [Reply] [Original]

Any books on how to wear a smile and pretend to give a shit while working for corporations?

>> No.12604810

>>12604807
Step one, get off your high horse.

>> No.12604820

>>12604807
stalk the people you hate and then beat them half to death when you manage to get them alone under disguise.

>> No.12604822

>>12604810
Is that the title of the book?

>> No.12604825

>>12604807
You just pretend, what sort of question is this m8? Are you asking how to lie

>> No.12604827

>>12604807
you don't need a book, just do drugs. you've lost your soul already.

>> No.12604831

>>12604825
I guess I am asking that.

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>> No.12604848

>>12604831
It is literally as simple as saying 'im going to play a character' and then doing it. Just imagine some little character in your head, and then when you next talk to a person play that character.

You can try out different sorts of characters with strangers to see what gets good results

>> No.12604849

>>12604807
maybe you should read a book about not being a whiny little turd and another book about doing something constructive with your fucking life

>> No.12604875

>>12604849
I am trying to do something constructive with my life. As far as whining goes, go look in a mirror, boy.

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This works.

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>>12604807

>>12604810
>it doesn't matter if you "need things", we only have to pay you, what we want, to do the work we need xd

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>> No.12606142

omg corporations are so evil man

>> No.12606208

>>12606142
Conniving, duplicitous, abusive, unruly, and self centered is more like it, and everything they accuse their opponents of being is a reflections of theirsleves, hence the connivery part.

>> No.12606216

>>12604807
yeah its called the book of life you whiney socialist. i hope you break your fathers heart by never actually doing anything with your life because youre too busy complaining about rich people

>> No.12606233

>>12606142
They are extramoral, not evil. As they are machine-like systems and not free-willed actors like humans, good and evil are none of their concern. Consequently they commit a lot of evil.

>> No.12606240

>>12606216
[fashwaving intensifies]

>> No.12606587

>>12604875
>I am trying to do something constructive with my life
yeah i bet you're not though

>> No.12606589

That's literally a basic social skill, you fucking autist. People pretending to give a shit.

>> No.12606600

>>12606589
Books for this knowledge?

>> No.12606604

I need to find love, not only in an interpersonal sense. Everywhere I see brutalism and grotesque exploitations of all that should be natural and good, engendered by technology, moral decay, capital, doesn't matter. I need to find something real.

>> No.12606605

>>12606589
>That's literally a basic social skill, you fucking autist. People pretending to give a shit.
Why do they pretend?

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>>12604807
>Wallace's subjects in "The Pale King" are loneliness, depression and the ennui that is human life's agonized bedrock, "the deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient low-level way, and most which most of us spend nearly all of our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from."

>"The Pale King" dares to plunge readers deep into this Dantean hell of "crushing boredom," suggesting that something good may lie beyond. "Pay close attention to the most tedious thing you can find (tax returns, televised golf) and, in waves, a boredom you've never known will wash over you and just about kill you," Wallace writes in a note that's included at the end. "Ride these out, and it's like stepping from black and white into color. Like water after days in the desert. Constant bliss in every atom."

>> No.12607968

>>12607938
Lol.

But if that quote is seriously representative of DFW’s quality of writing...that’s gonna be yikes.