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15383250 No.15383250 [Reply] [Original]

Success in society is determined by two things:

Luck
>Good genetics i.e. good looking
>Right place right time
>Knowing people in the right places i.e. nepotism

A desperate need for attention/love/adoration
>All actors are attention whores
>All rich people like being envied by the world
>Every great writer, artist or singer was an attention whore


If you don't have a deep rooted hunger for everyone to love you and you never get lucky then you will live in obscurity. It's that simple.

>> No.15383270

>>15383250

Living in obscurity is bad how?

May you live an interesting life OP

>> No.15383309

>>15383250
I swear this board is getting more and more filled with Schoppy faggots who bitch and moan about society and women and whatever insecurity they can project onto him

HES A FUCKING LOSER

>> No.15383323

>>15383309
Shut your damn mouth.

>> No.15383331

>>15383270
>Living in obscurity is bad how?
It's not. Most people are fine with it.

However most people believe it's about hard work and never giving up. That if they did that they'd be one of the chosen few. But society doesn't reward that. It rewards sociopaths. Society is about cannibalising your own species for no ultimate goal than your own self obsession.

>> No.15383336

>>15383250

Schopenhauer said some penetrating and worthwhile things but his intellect was at the mercy of his character, and often his writing suffers because of it.

For example, in "The Wisdom of Life", he announces he's going to work out the best way to live, and you know before he starts he's going to come up with the conclusion that it's best to live a quiet, retiring life with books and enough money to be comfortable, because that's how he lived, because that was what HE wanted to do. But the idea that he arrived there by inexorable, dispassionate logic is nonsense.

>> No.15383346

>>15383250
Objectivists hate Schopenhauer.
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/malevolent_universe_premise.html

>> No.15383462

>>15383250
based and shopilled

>> No.15383527

>>15383331
>But society doesn't reward that. It rewards sociopaths. Society is about cannibalising your own species for no ultimate goal than your own self obsession

Sounds pretty based to me

>> No.15383705

>>15383250
>Success in society
What does success mean? Who said that fame is success? Lindy Chamberlain, the Star Wars Kid, Jeffry Epstein after his conviction (and not for his financial accomplishments), almost all "revenge porn", that old woman who "restored" the Ecce Homo fresco in that Spanish church, Tonya Harding and so many others are 'famous' but under the circumstances that attention certainly isn't desirable, and I don't think you'd consider that 'success'.

>> No.15383713

>>15383250
>then you will live in obscurity.
Lovely, isn't it?

>> No.15383729

>>15383250
test

>> No.15384834

>>15383250
why did you post Schopenhauer on your incel rambling thread?

>> No.15386193

>>15383331
imagine thinking being famous is a reward by any stretch of the imagination

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15386198

>>15383250

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>> No.15387992

luck isnt real

>> No.15388020

>>15383250
Given that such a desperate need is the result of luck, shouldn't this just be Luck?

>> No.15388929 [DELETED] 

>>15383309
Half correct. Schop is extremely based but people who use him as a stand-in for their personal problems usually haven't read him. His insights are little bit more than "I had a bad day" believe it or not.

>> No.15388958

>>15383309
Half correct. Schop is extremely based but people who use him as a stand-in for their personal problems usually haven't read him. His insights are little bit more than "I had a bad day" believe it or not. Btw, his takes on women are correct. People however seem to forget that he doesn't exactly provide a glowing review of man either, or the human being in general for that matter.

>> No.15388979

>>15383346
Wtf i love schopenhauer now

>> No.15389006

>>15383346
Leonard Peikoff seething that Schop is correct

>> No.15389891

>>15383336
I agree. It's also clear in e.g. his description of the character of genius.

>> No.15389918

>>15383309
There's more than that to him.