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What are some good books about this?

>> No.20590024

Every book.

>> No.20590038

>>20590021
>0 pussy tradlarping chud mistakes his antisocial mental illness for enlightenment

>> No.20590040
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that's literally me

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You WILL fight for pride and glory
You WILL accumulate gold, concubines and servants
You WILL crush your enemies under your boots
You WILL commission a grand estate and deify yourself
AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY

>> No.20590227

>>20590021
>Look at those losers being social while I'm here inside being based and redpilled

>> No.20590774

>>20590021
god tier gem

>> No.20591179

>>20590021
Would you happen to perceive people who think like this "losers" and yourself as a "winner"?

>> No.20591185

>>20590021
Check out “The Inheritors” by William Golding, assuming you aren’t just meme monkeing around

>> No.20591192

>>20591179
I'm based
They are cringe

>> No.20591870

Basically ALL ANTHROPOLOGY.

There are even books titled that:
The Primitive Mentality by Levy-Bruhl.
The Mind Of Primitive Man by Boas.

We are social beings, so our minds will be spontaneously oriented towards others. But since the social world is itself - or used to be - an image of the natural world, going beyond that 'primitive mind' implies going beyond social rules to directly know nature. Note, however, that going beyond means passing thought it and not just avoiding it, cause if you just stay out of society your mind will remain at the animal level.

The stages could be said to be: Animal mind -- Social mind -- Nature mind.

In a way it is a return to the animal stage, but this time in a self conscious way.

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>>20590021
VGHHHH

>> No.20591922

>>20590021
Genuinely, Catcher in the Rye

>> No.20593199

>>20590021
Right because primitive humans were so known for their rampant atheism...

>> No.20593252

>>20590021
>no sense of morality
>accepts [...] "normal" as morally good
lmao

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I'm an idle, footloose son of a doctor. I think I would like to enter the monastic life.

>> No.20593331

>>20591910
Based.
Lobotomies are the only way to the natural State of humanity.

>> No.20593345

>>20590021
>atheist
wouldn't he be religious since the vats majority of primitive people were?

>> No.20593612

>>20590038
>>20590187
>>20590227
Enjoy spending the rest of your life getting scammed by con artists that know how to push your buttons and manipulate your instinctual desires against you.

>> No.20593622

>>20593612
Enjoy not striving and thriving, I guess

>> No.20593632

>>20590021
>atheist
Early humans were religious. We can find religious behavior in apes and elephants

>> No.20593655

>>20590227
Yes

>> No.20593671

>>20590021
Being a primitive brain is good though. Being shallow and one dimensional will get you far in life. No one likes neurotic deep thinking types.

>> No.20593911

>>20591910
QRD?

>> No.20593917

>>20590021
I guess Rosseau's Discourses

>> No.20593918

>>20593671
makes sense why I can't get along with anyone. now I know why.

>> No.20593924

>>20593911
basically that in the past (he cites Homer regularly and the treatment of graven idols in Babylonia as evidence) everybody was schizophrenic and unironically believed that thoughts and the 'voice in your head' was instructions or impulses sent from the gods. Not only that but everybody assumed that the gods were directly in contact with everyone else too. At some point we modern people, the author contends, discovered that in fact these thoughts were our own and manifested from us which was a kind of birth of consciousness. Some people read this as him saying that everybody was a schizophrenic p-zombie in the past

>> No.20593969

>>20593918
I was the same. I used to be the very serious deep type but time and age has mellowed me out a lot. My social life is a lot better for it. It's okay to be introspective, just don't force it on other people. Keep that shit to yourself

>> No.20593983

>>20593969
>forcing your introspection onto others
Anon, I ...

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>>20593924
This is interesting. I'll try give it a read after I'm done with my current reading list so far. I am being a bit romantic about this idea that we were all schizos in Homeric poetry... I have been "diagnosed" with it but I don't think I'm all that different. It's more of a cultural thing.