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[Anonymous No.18823779]

what is behind this phenomenon

[Anonymous No.18823782]

>>18823779
sovlless burgers looking for direction

[Anonymous No.18823786]

Why is there no equivalent in any other language?

[Anonymous No.18823789]

>>18823779
looks like something from idiocracy

[Anonymous No.18823795]

>>18823779
I remember when I was 19-21 years old I bought “ The 4 hour work week “ after being on a long lit binge. I think I made it 50 pages in and I was so angry that I had spent money and time on this I didn’t read for a couple months.

[Anonymous No.18823811]

>>18823779
Lost but dumb people looking for a way. They just want to be loved, to have home, something they can own, but this world disappoints and turns them to this faggotry. Consequnces of making a world in which humans think their life has no purpose nor destination, that they are not meant to do anything, or not to do anything.

[Anonymous No.18823820]

>>18823786
they just translate those books in op because since they're about rootless and soulless 21st century philosophies they can fit any market
>pic related is the Brazilian version

[Anonymous No.18823826]

>>18823820
forgot to attach

[Anonymous No.18823829]

>>18823786
not true, I know people who own this kind of books

[Anonymous No.18823860]

>>18823826
I think my older brother has this version kek

[Anonymous No.18823868]

>>18823779
what is behind the phenomenon of this thread being posted once a month

[Anonymous No.18823872]

>>18823779
>>18823782
>>18823786
The target audience would rather read about leading a meaningful life than figure out what meaningful things they can do in their lives and actually toil at them. It comes from consumerist society; although born in the United States, it has spread to the entire West. Profanity and vulgarity to incentivize viscerally, appealing to a self-loathing emasculated common sense, with the promise of plans and programs which, if applied, will fix you (they won't).

[Anonymous No.18823877]

>>18823779
These are the worst bookshelves I have ever seen. Assuming one can even call these things "shelves" or "books".

[Anonymous No.18823878]

>>18823795
the notorious "Pavlov's Blog" scenario

[Anonymous No.18823883]

>>18823779
Grew up listening to limp bizkit

[Anonymous No.18823917]

>>18823779
it may be that a large portion of the western population have reached a level of comfort that leads them to inane doubts on the happiness of life. for this reason, they search for external sources of pleasure such as media (dopamine hits from social media, binging fanciful scenarios provided by netflix and films, finding a sense of accomplishment from vidya), drugs (prescription pills, anti-depressants, alcohol, nicotine, weeeeeed broooo, coke etc), physical rearrangement (online shopping, getting sweet 40% OFF TODAY ONLY deals, cosmetic surgery etc), and SEXOSEXOSEXO that has been facilitated to the utmost degree given the innovation of contraceptives and apps.
even if they do become rich, there are countless cases of new money drinking themselves to death or ODing because there is a still a void that not even financial comfort may dissipate.
meanwhile in the third world, despite the poverty, they party to bunda music and start a family at 16, thereby giving them a purpose outside of themselves to strive.

[Anonymous No.18823923]

>>18823789

This is one of the more profound observations I've seen on the website ytd. It's an obvious observation, but somehow I never made this very particular connection.

[Anonymous No.18823931]

>>18823917
>meanwhile in the third world, despite the poverty, they party to bunda music and start a family at 16, thereby giving them a purpose outside of themselves to strive.
comfy

[Anonymous No.18823933]

>>18823789
>>18823923
Cumtown

[Anonymous No.18823944]

>>18823917
based and brazilpilled.
but that's true tho. humans have been wired for certain life paths designs. such high abundance has shaken the structures of our "outdated" minds that dont fit modern reality.

[Anonymous No.18823955]

>>18823944
The death of artisanry has killed humanity. I think that was the biggest factor in this decline. The change in work, and consequently the value of work and money and how money relates to work was probably the most massive hit on the human mind in history. It put work on a level of abstraction that is just unnatural

[Anonymous No.18823960]

>>18823917
its not only the west, these books are spreading here in SEA too. This can all be blamed at colonization

[Anonymous No.18823961]

>>18823779
fuck shit cock piss ass shit fuck poop cunt bitch ass fuck shit piss ass poop ass cunt faggot cunt bitch whore bitch poop pee fuck shit bitch cunt fuck dick ass poop

[Anonymous No.18823977]

>>18823955
any books on this subject?

[Anonymous No.18823989]

>>18823779
>jen sincero
kek what kind of name is this

[Anonymous No.18824026]

>>18823977
Not him but pic related goes way into it

[Anonymous No.18824028]

Pseuds here will frantically type out essays about the infantilization of modern man in an age of decadence, or the false rebellion of quasi-irreverence in the cultural zeitgeist of late capitalism, or some other over-determined drivel. But the truth is, one book in the preexisting self-help genre (the subtle art of not giving a fuck) was popular and spawned a bunch of imitators trying to cash in on the trend. That's it.

[Anonymous No.18824032]

>>18824028
no shit sherlock

[Anonymous No.18824065]

>>18824026
Thanks, will check it out

[Anonymous No.18824082]

>>18823779
My boss has The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck on display in his office, the most successful guy from my highschool posted pic related on his IG. It's like the dumber someone's taste in books is the more likely they are to be winning at life

[Anonymous No.18824105]

>>18824028
>about the infantilization of modern man
says the guy with a waifu pillow filled with cum

[Anonymous No.18824125]

>>18823977
1844 manuscripts by Karl Marx

[Anonymous No.18824207]

>>18824125
those were just shitposting

[Anonymous No.18824221]

>>18823779
Jews. Unironcially jews.

[Anonymous No.18824235]

>>18823872
>The target audience would rather read about leading a meaningful life than figure out what meaningful things they can do in their lives and actually toil at them.

If they knew the rewards of growing a meaningful life - most especially the ability to savor and appreciate life to ultimately motivating magnitudes - the consumerist masses would toil themselves to the bone to create beautiful lives of themselves. It isn't laziness that is the problem, it is a lack of appreciation of the better things in life (which there are so many kinds of!) from a lack of access to them. By "access" I don't just mean merely physical access, but mental as well, which means "education" in the broadest sense of the word. It is the degenerate rich who are responsible for choosing to keep the masses in an easily manipulable state of ignorance and incuriosity rather than seeking to cultivate their desire to know, discover, love, create, and explore.

We've found out what the consequences are for keeping a society just barely intelligent enough to not destroy itself: it ends up destroying itself because systematic poverty of mind and life is unsustainable in a global civilization with globally extended problems. It's the biggest "play stupid games, win stupid prizes" in history. Who the fuck knew that keeping a society stupid is the best way to destroy it?

[Anonymous No.18824273]

I get the feeling that self-help books are generally just long-winded ways of giving people the motivation to do shit they already knew they needed to do rather than actually "tell" them what they needed while still feeling like you're "caring for yourself" in the process. They're just long-form procrastination.

[Anonymous No.18824716]

>>18824207
Literally this. Marx was just an ironybro who
attacked his contemporaries to make himself seem superior.

[࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇ !KNDY3cHnRY No.18824814]

>>18823779


«PROTESTANTISM», THE ANGLOAMERICAN SECTS OF WHICH HAVE TAKEN IT TO ITS ULTIMATE LOGICAL CONSEQUENCES IN ALL AMBITS.

[Anonymous No.18824863]

>>18823977
Industrial Society and Its Future

[Anonymous No.18824921]

>>18823795
The part where he brags about having some literal slave running his errands for pennies as a way to efficiently save time made my heart sink a bit. All of those books are just celebrations of sociopathy.

[Anonymous No.18824986]

>>18824082
Lol this book is great and i rather see everyone reading this than any greek old shit you guys force yourselves to read to look superior

[Anonymous No.18824994]

hollywood

[Anonymous No.18825067]

The jews purposely have been reducing the IQ of the white population with their absolute control over public education. Soon there won't even be white people to read books like these. We'll all be a shade of brown and listening to reggaeton 24/7

[Anonymous No.18825434]

>>18823779
Noumenon

[Anonymous No.18825705]

Actually, I would say not all self-help is bad and maybe 4chan needs some of this instead of obsessing about much IQ and actually do something.

Having said that, Mark Manson is the most worthless pseudo-profound author I've ever read.

[Anonymous No.18825708]

>>18823786
English is the most pozzed language by far

[Anonymous No.18825712]

>>18824273
>I get the feeling that self-help books
Self help books sell or affirm delusions to people who never actually think too much into anything and engage in keeping the truth out of their mind.

These books are all shit and the people who read them are shit for brains who lack critical thinking.

[Anonymous No.18825733]

>>18823779
Free market and tricking women into working and getting money.

[Anonymous No.18825746]

femoids got told that work would set them free it didn't so they use their wagie bux to buy this trash so they put off drinking themselves to death another day

[Anonymous No.18825763]

>>18823826
Macacos really are dumb. In REAL portuguese it would be: "A arte subtil de não dar uma f*da".

[Anonymous No.18825771]

>>18823917
Nice post

[Anonymous No.18825787]

We unironically live in a society

[Anonymous No.18825789]

Was Marx correct when he wrote about the worker being alienated from his work in industrial society?

[Anonymous No.18825852]

>>18823977
Revolt Against the Modern World, the chapter on culture and craft, I can't remember the exact name of it (it's also spread through the book a little bit, it's worth reading it all). There's also some specific books dedicated to examining the Medieval European guilds, as well as Roman guilds, all of which were very similar in their core essentials. The same thing also applied to the Vaishyas of India and so on. Pic related is a decent starting point for research that is focused specifically on this topic without seething too much about capitalism and labor alienation (which gets old very quickly).

[Anonymous No.18825860]

>>18825789
yes

[Anonymous No.18825876]

>>18823779
>vulgarity as method

[Anonymous No.18825939]

>>18823786

[Anonymous No.18826178]

>>18824235
Normies are chickenheads and they live their entire lives on thoughtless inertia. They literally have their brains turned off, even if they are studying some complicated matter they just turn off the lobes of their brain to study that. They're not stupid, they are just capable of turning their brains off, to me this is incredible as if one could stop one's heartbeat but they can do it. If you question their lifestyles they' re like "eh but what you gotta do", "everyone else does it" and so on. They watch TV and say TV is shit but then they love talking about TV because other people like talking about TV too. They are literally like chicken. I honestly fucking hate them more and more as they become more chicken-like, I expect human behavior from them instead I get chicken behavior, yet I know they are not stupid, they are perfectly capable of actually using their brains, they just don't.

[Anonymous No.18826600]

>>18823960
>muh colonization

Yeah whatever. Change the fucking record victim-nigger.

[Anonymous No.18826679]

>>18823779
Amerimutts seeking lowest IQ cope possible

[Anonymous No.18826720]

>>18824273
>>18824221
>>18824028
Succinct good posts

[Anonymous No.18826725]

>>18826679
Based

[Anonymous No.18826913]

>>18825789
yes, the problem is the industrial society is now gone, and is replaced by virtual commodity fetishism instead of the physical commodity fetishism marx described, zoomers spend their money on 10 different streaming service due to their extreme alienation from peers, its interesting how marx and kaczynsky analized society correctly despite not living in this utter schizo 21st century hellscape themselves