Examine our lives in 2016

[Anonymous No.8591299]

1. What is your life philosophy? Do you have goals? Do you have no goals? Do you schedule your days or do you view this is acting like a dehumanised machine?

It seems like a lot of life advice tries to ignore the cold hard fact that, everything else being equal, working more increases your chance of success but cucks your soul by making you overly specialised. People will insult you for not reading book X or learning language Y or watching opera Z. This idea of life enrichment is an obvious marketing gimmick as well.

2. Is anyone else like me in that they view a lot of their actions through faux psychological terms? For example, I wonder whether doing work with my phone nearby and on, even if I don't us it, makes me dumber because it is potentially usable within a second and I get distracted. Do I need to put my debit card away and use cash to avoid wasting money on junk food? Will thinking confident thoughts let me do more reps in the gym?

I have been cucked out of my free will by my own stupidity and marketing. I don't even have confidence in my ability to avoid junk food or sit down and do work anymore.

3. This is maybe similar to 1, but is anyone else simply tempted to ignore all of history / philosophy before 1950 and derive your life philosophy from there? I think this can be called embracing modernism but i don't know the terminology. I'm sure I will be trolled for even mentioning this but it leads to some "edgy" thoughts.

Why care about "great rulers" if all they did was fight over borders that are irrelevant today? War is just nukes and third world playground fights these days, get over it.

Why should I give a shit about the "enriching" effects of art when it won't increase my bank balance and we've seen the popularity of art forms wane? It's easy for the Greeks to spend time on things when they lived in a stagnant society with no social mobility and all the donkey work done by slaves.

Why not roid, get a nose job, and show off on Instagram?

[Anonymous No.8591951]

Why not indeed?

Why not jump off a cliff or devote your life to Jesus Christ or meditate staring at a cave wall for eight years?

If the best you can think of to pass the time is steroids, surgical enhancement and run of the mill self-indulgent photo-snapping then I guess go do that.

I mean, who the fuck are you?

Your stated desires are right shit.

At least I got the brains to know I have no clue what I really want, and that what I want will change moment to moment, slipping from my grasp as everything I acquire becomes old and boring.

You're grasping in the dark at the controls of the Hedonic Treadmill.

[Anonymous No.8591968]

Idk, I just write multiple hundred page essays on gossip girl. The rest fills itself in.

[Anonymous No.8592140]

1) My life philosophy is that without goals you are nothing. Every human being on the face of this planet can improve themselves in some way. That in turn leads to improving others. It's how we keep going as a species. My goals are to hone my craft of music and writing. I have multiple albums that I'm working on and even more ideas for short stories and novels. You have to work towards something if you want to be anything. All of that being said, there are still plenty of days where I laze about the apartment continually updating 4chan.

You are certainly right about life advice hiding the full truth but you are certainly wrong about your conclusion. No one cares about you enough to make fun of you for not doing something because people only care about themselves. Life enrichment can definitely be a marketing gimmick if the only way to improve your life by buying a product. Actual enlightenment is the antithesis of that though, my dear anon.

2) You're absolutely correct on this point. Smartphones hinder your attention span and make you reliant on a vibration and a chime like a dog begging for a treat. When you get everything all the time then eventually nothing means anything. Tell me; when was the last time you left your phone at home and went for a walk by the lake or through a park trail? Life is moving all around you but you won't put the phone down long enough to find it. Turn off the noise and listen to what you've been missing.

3) It's okay to have edgy thoughts. Anyone who says that they don't is a liar. Maybe it's natural to think that because there's this weird way of thinking about the past as if it's an alien era and the only humanity is the one around you right now. Blatantly untrue. The fact that you think this proves that you don't actually read. If you were even SLIGHTLY educated about great literature you would understand why we care. People that lived hundreds of years ago lived full lives wrought with emotion and feeling and conflict. We read their words because they teach us about ourselves and the human conditions. Please dispel the illusion that art is supposed to be enriching. It's not a faucet you turn on to extract Self Improvement Jizz out of. It's an extension of ourselves and a manifestation of what it means to be human.

Protips: Calling the Greeks stagnant proves that you haven't read the Greeks. The donkey work is still done by slaves. Lastly, chasing material wealth is what slaves do.

[Breakfast !!EOlubLBevJt No.8592170]

>1. What is your life philosophy? Do you have goals? Do you have no goals? Do you schedule your days or do you view this is acting like a dehumanised machine?

I want to live a life as free from authority as possible. I want to make good things apart from myself.

I can't plan my days. Too volatile for that. I just pick up whatever pieces of personhood I have for that day and make do.

>2. Is anyone else like me in that they view a lot of their actions through faux psychological terms? For example, I wonder whether doing work with my phone nearby and on, even if I don't us it, makes me dumber because it is potentially usable within a second and I get distracted. Do I need to put my debit card away and use cash to avoid wasting money on junk food? Will thinking confident thoughts let me do more reps in the gym?

I wish I had your problems

3. This is maybe similar to 1, but is anyone else simply tempted to ignore all of history / philosophy before 1950 and derive your life philosophy from there? I think this can be called embracing modernism but i don't know the terminology. I'm sure I will be trolled for even mentioning this but it leads to some "edgy" thoughts.

Obviously going back and trying to be a monarchist or something is fucking retarded. People like to idealize the past too much. But it's important to know history to not be lost in the present. Human nature hasn't changed for a 100,000 years. Post 1950 is a pretty small sample size.

>Why care about "great rulers" if all they did was fight over borders that are irrelevant today? War is just nukes and third world playground fights these days, get over it.

Well...yeah. People were saying this even when they were more relevant.

>Why should I give a shit about the "enriching" effects of art when it won't increase my bank balance and we've seen the popularity of art forms wane? It's easy for the Greeks to spend time on things when they lived in a stagnant society with no social mobility and all the donkey work done by slaves.

Enriching your bank account allows you to enact your dreams. Art allows you recreate and enhance those dreams. You won't know how important it is until it has happened.

>Why not roid, get a nose job, and show off on Instagram?

Do whatever the fuck you want.