/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6350579]

What are some works that can convince me that relationships and social interactions are superficial and unimportant?

aka books that make me feel better about being omega

[Anonymous No.6350588]

>>6350579
Deny the destructive narrative. It does not serve to improve your life.

[Anonymous No.6350594]

>>6350579
>the Leprechaun that loved ORAL SEX

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.6350644]

>>6350594
That lowercase "L" gets me.

[Anonymous No.6350676]

>>6350644
I feel it

[Anonymous No.6350836]

>>6350588
What?

[Twiggy !!ErZLYHNhXgZ No.6350849]

When you find human society disagreeable and feel yourself justified in flying to solitude, you can be so constituted as to be unable to bear the depression of it for any length of time, which will probably be the case if you are young.

Let me advise you, then, to form the habit of taking some of your solitude with you into society, to learn to be to some extent alone even though you are in company; not to say at once what you think, and, on the other hand, not to attach too precise a meaning to what others say; rather, not to expect much of them, either morally or intellectually, and to strengthen yourself in the feeling of indifference to their opinion, which is the surest way of always practicing a praiseworthy toleration. If you do that, you will not live so much with other people, though you may appear to move amongst them: your relation to them will be of a purely objective character.

This precaution will keep you from too close contact with society, and therefore secure you against being contaminated or even outraged by it. Society is in this respect like a fire — the wise man warming himself at a proper distance from it; not coming too close, like the fool, who, on getting scorched, runs away and shivers in solitude, loud in his complaint that the fire burns.

https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/counsels/chapter2.html

ctrl + f "section 9"

[Anonymous No.6350859]

>>6350849
This is perfect. I love you anon, I hope your life is going well.

[Anonymous No.6350864]

>>6350849
This reminded me of Rilke.

[Anonymous No.6350869]

>>6350849
I got halfway through before a fedora materialized on my head.

10/10
Would "why am I so much better than everyone else?" again.

[Twiggy !!ErZLYHNhXgZ No.6350874]

>>6350859
I love you too.

[Twiggy !!ErZLYHNhXgZ No.6350885]

>>6350864
Any specific work?

[Ignatius Neworleanus Rex Intel(...) No.6350899]

[Anonymous No.6350902]

>>6350885
Letters to a Young Poet

[Anonymous No.6350903]

>>6350869
You can see it like that, but it's also acknowledging that becoming attached to nonpermanent things will never end well.

[Anonymous No.6350915]

>>6350885
>>6350902
What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours - that is what you must be able to attain. To be solitary as you were when you were a child, when the grownups walked around involved with matters that seemed large and important because they looked so busy and because you didn't understand a thing about what they were doing.

And when you realize that their activities are shabby, that their vocations are petrified and no longer connected with life, why not then continue to look upon it all as a child would, as if you were looking at something unfamiliar, out of the depths of your own world, from the vastness of your own solitude, which is itself work and status and vocation? Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from.

1/2

[Twiggy !!ErZLYHNhXgZ No.6350919]

https://youtu.be/DWdNiGS1Qtw

[Anonymous No.6350923]

>>6350915
hink, dear Sir, of the world that you carry inside you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning toward a future of your own - only be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything you perceive around you. What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it, and not lose too much time or too much courage in clarifying your attitude toward people. Who says that you have any attitude at all? l know, your profession is hard and full of things that contradict you, and I foresaw your lament and knew that it would come. Now that it has come, there is nothing I can say to reassure you, I can only suggest that perhaps all professions are like that, filled with demands, filled with hostility toward the individual, saturated as it were with the hatred of those who find themselves mute and sullen in an insipid duty. The situation you must live in now is not more heavily burdened with conventions, prejudices, and false ideas than all the other situations, and if there are some that pretend to offer a greater freedom, there is nevertheless none that is, in itself, vast and spacious and connected to the important Things that the truest kind of life consists of. Only the individual who is solitary is placed under the deepest laws like a Thing, and when he walks out into the rising dawn or looks out into the event-filled evening and when he feels what is happening there, all situations drop from him as if from a dead man, though he stands in the midst of pure life. What you, dear Mr. Kappus, now have to experience as an officer, you would have felt in just the same way in any of the established professions; yes, even if, outside any position, you had simply tried to find some easy and independent contact with society, this feeling of being hemmed in would not have been spared you. It is like this everywhere; but that is no cause for anxiety or sadness; if there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things; they will not abandon you; and the nights are still there, and the winds that move through the trees and across many lands; everything in the world of Things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in; and children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children, and the grownups are nothing, and their dignity has no value.

2/2

[Twiggy !!ErZLYHNhXgZ No.6350945]

>>6350915
>>6350923
This is pretty cool. Thanks for posting it.

[Anonymous No.6350973]

>>6350945
No problem. I recommend reading the book, it's filled with stuff like that.

[Anonymous No.6350975]

So in other words your looking for books full of bullshit? Humans are social animals, we yearn to belong to a tribe even though we aren't conscious of it. This is why we have things like music scenes and book clubs. You cant fight against youre programming because you wil inevitably lose. Even if you didn't get enough social interactions growing up to not be awkward its stupid to best yourself up over it like r9k does or even worse delude yourself like the fucktards who want to turn gaming into a culture because its all they have in life or /a/nons whining about "normies"
Everybody has to start somewhere, even if you dont exactly think someone is cool get the fuck off your computer and chill with them instead, later on youll meet cool people and even a gf via the lamer social contracts you have. Unless theyre shut ins too of course. Also Alpha and beta has been disproved even for wolf packs, it does not exist.

[Anonymous No.6350987]

>>6350975
*your *will *beat etc
They make these touchscreens too small for my freaky huge manhands

[Twiggy !!ErZLYHNhXgZ No.6350990]

>>6350975
https://youtu.be/kO1oB9fgpFc

>>6350973
I will.

[Anonymous No.6351016]

>>6350987
It's not just you. Capacitive keyboards are widely accepted as one of the worst developments in consumer technology.

[Anonymous No.6351044]

American Psycho.

Sex is even more meaningless than torturous, humiliating violence to Patrick Bateman.

[Anonymous No.6351721]

>>6350975
>having no standards for who you spend time with
rofl. you're no doubt undesirable yourself

[Anonymous No.6352469]

>>6350990
solid album thanks twiggy

[Anonymous No.6352651]

I think this will fit in here. How do I become a better conversationalist? Anyone want to Recommend a book or find or something?