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6486958 No.6486958[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

I propose a new doctrine: Smug

Embody pride, condescension and self-satisfaction against all comers. Even the most gifted man on earth is brought down low by rolling with a pig in the mud.

Smugness is also the apex of being.

>> No.6486967

>>6486958
/lit/ - literature

>> No.6486987

>>6486958
stop posting this picture mudslime islam isn't real

otherwise i agree

>> No.6487109

>>6486967
You're shitposting right now, stop it

>> No.6487118

>>6487109
fuck off

>> No.6487120

But over time, I'll get tired of looking down on everything around me.
Do I create new things to feel smug about, expect them to fall into my lap, or just accept my stale smug life and continue to be a condescending asshole?

>> No.6487122
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6487122

>>6487118
No

>> No.6487127

>Even the most gifted man on earth is brought down low by rolling with a pig in the mud.

This is a good aphorism. J'make it>>6486958
?

>> No.6487128

>>6487120
Smugness allows you to do whatever you want. If someone says otherwise, just be smug. If you're tired and unhappy, then you're not smug and must find a way to assert otherwise.

Above all, be smug even when alone.

>> No.6487134

>>6487127
It's a George Bernard Shaw quote

>> No.6487138

>>6487128
But there needs to be an object of my smugness, how am I supposed to impose my smug nature on it if I'm alone?

>> No.6487151

>>6487134
Not seein much or at least I'm not seeing your variation of it. source?

>> No.6487152

>>6487138
Contemplate that there are billions out there who are frustrated and lack smug. Reading passionate and idealistic articles can assist in this.

We are alone at all times anon.

>> No.6487153
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6487153

>>6487151
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

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6487164

>>6487153
I like the quote, but your doctrine is narrow, for by heeding it, you exclude yourself from gaining both knowledge and wisdom from your fellow man and woman.

But smug to fug I can abide

>> No.6487176

>>6487164
You can still gain knowledge by being smug, upon receiving it. Smugness can be entirely internal.

It's very smug to attend a lecture, soak up the knowledge and then have no gratitude or humility; refusing even to acknowledge the lecturer's superiority.

>> No.6487186

Seems fragile and deluded

>> No.6487191

>>6487186
Quick, somebody post a pretentious frog image to counter

>> No.6487192

>>6487176
Have you met anyone like this, dude? They're honestly awful individuals that most people try to abandon. I wouldn't do this.

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6487195

>>6487186
Deluded maybe, but you will never beat a dedicated Smug in a race to the bottom for superiority.

>> No.6487196

>>6487164
But smugness has the benefit of casting doubt on everything one perceives. By constantly challenging the opinions of others they are either proven wrong, or only after sufficient prodding one can withdraw and adopt the viewpoint as their own, acting smug the entire time.

>> No.6487201

>>6487192
You can choose to fully internalise it. If, by instead choosing to praise the lecturer in that situation, you can be smug in knowing that you're being completely dishonest.

Nobody will know the difference and that's one more thing you can be smug about.

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6487207

>>6487201
d e v i l i s h

lmao you're a goof :^ )

>> No.6487209

>>6487195
The reality is that you can only troll people who want to be trolled. To anybody who isn't playing the same game that you are, you just look like an idiot.

>> No.6487212

>>6487209
Someone can give up in disgust, but as was once said ' I have never argued with an ignorant fool and won',

Smugness in victory and victory in smugness.

>> No.6487230

>>6487212
You're misunderstanding me. Anyone emotionally invested enough to become disgusted was at a minimum open to being trolled.

>> No.6487244

>>6487230
So it's a race to the bottom. The person who is more invested in the argument will lose.

Smugness is about always being the least-invested person, to the point of irony.

>> No.6487259

>>6487244
The stuff ITT is too heavy-handed to be read as anything but affectation, which indicates significant investment.

>> No.6487274
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6487274

What books should be on a smugness essentials list?

The Ego and Its Own obviously, but what else?

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6487285

>>6487259
You can be invested in what you're doing, but never defend it. To defend your own smugness is to relinquish it.

If it feels like an affectation then you're not being smug enough.

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6487294

>>6487274
Smugness is independent of any object or fixed thought.

You are engaged in a constant state of becoming.

>> No.6487344

are their branches of this philosophy?

is there the /r9k/ version, the ebin meme funposting rest of 4chan version, and the reddit version?

>> No.6487350

>>6487122
>tfw Paulie, despite his superstitious nature, understood that having kids if you're a mobster is wrong and thus had more self awareness than the rest of the gang, the only one worthy of being pepefied

>> No.6487356

>>6487350
are you talking about paulie from the godfather or paulie from goodfellas?

>> No.6487361

>>6487356
Look at that pepe for ten seconds and then think over that question.

>> No.6487366

>>6487361
oh wow i'm retarded fuck yourself

>> No.6487370

>>6487344
In a descriptive sense perhaps.

>> No.6487379

>>6487361
now that i think about it tho there should be a series of godfather, goodfellas, the departed style pepes

>> No.6487380

>>6486958
I like it OP except for one thing: most moments of sadness, whether recurring or with an imediate cause, override previous emotions in a "sincerity" (quotes because this sincerity is a symptom rather than a cauze) that makes us forget our previous every day content or smug attitude and thus the whole point of living life in a smug attitude to raise your overall quality of life is broken

>> No.6487395

>>6487380
Shit, I wrote cause in two different ways.

>>6487356
The Sopranos. Do the other characters even resemble that pepe? I haven't seen either movie in a long time.

>> No.6487399

>>6487380
That's a valid issue, but what if we were to avoid sadness? Genetic/whatever disorders may inhibit the ability to be smug, but smugness is to be above joy, fear, anger and the whole range of emotions. Your aim is to have one single emotion: smug. A shit-eating grin is a sign of permanent contentment.

To raise your quality of life is not the goal, but rather to be independent of that. To be smug in the electric chair is still victory.