/lit/ - Literature

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There is a general form of silicon valley brain rot that a lot of the Tlon Urbit guys I met definitely had. Moldbug wasnt like that, but he was still very weird. I feel like he was lying about everything he said, even inconsequential things, and just had an out of this world sized ego. Past the normal aspie shit, anyway. I just have this very bad gut feeling about him and that whole sphere. The general sphere of orbit around him though, those guys were mega weird. Weird substance abuse, ketamine or hallucinogens just all the time, always adderalled up to keep them moving on whatever new spiritual journey they were taking in some savior complex. Just so annoying and up their own ass.
Not to keep name dropping but I met a bunch of the FTX crew as well (not SBF but those around him) and I would say they were comparatively weird but still not as weird as Moldbug and co.

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The nature of the religious movement which is capitalism entails endurance right to the end, to the point where God, too, finally takes on the entire burden of guilt, to the point where the universe has been taken over by that despair which is actually its secrethope.
Capitalism is entirely without precedent, in that it is a religion which offers not the reform of existence but its complete destruction. It is the expansion of despair, until despair becomes a religious state of the world in the hope that this will lead to salvation. God’s transcendence is at an end. But he is not dead; he has been incorporated into human existence. This passage of the planet “Human” through the house of despair in the absolute loneliness of his trajectory is the ethos that Nietzsche defined. This man is the superman, the first to recognize the religion of capitalism and begin to bring it to fulfillment. Its fourth feature is that its God must be hidden from it and may be addressed only when his guilt is at its zenith. The cult is celebrated before an unmatured deity; every idea, every conception of it offends against the secret of this immaturity.
Freud’s theory, too, belongs to the hegemony of the priests of this cult. Its conception is capitalist religious thought through and through. By virtue of a profound analogy, which has still to be illuminated, what has been repressed, the idea of sin, is capital itself, which pays interest on the hell of the unconscious.
The paradigm of capitalist religious thought is magnificently formulated in Nietzsche’s philosophy. The idea of the superman transposes the apocalyptic “leap” not into conversion, atonement, purification, and penance, but into an apparently steady, though in the final analysis explosive and discontinuous intensification. For this reason, intensification and development in the sense ofnon facit saltumare incompatible.(1) The superman is the man who has arrived where he is without changing his ways; he is historical man who has grown up right through the sky. This breaking open of the heavens by an intensified humanity that was and is characterized (even for Nietzsche himself) by guilt in a religious sense was anticipated by Nietzsche. Marx is a similar case: the capitalism that refuses to change course becomes socialism by means of the simple and compound interest that are functions ofSchuld(consider the demonic ambiguity of this word).(2)
Capitalism is a religion of pure cult, without dogma.
Capitalism has developed as a parasite of Christianity in the West (this must be shown no just in the case of Calvinism, but in the other orthodox Christian churches), until it reached the point where Christianity’s history is essentially that of its parasite – that is to say, of capitalism.

shitposting counts as writing
i shitpost a thousand words a day and have noticed an improvement in my ability to express my thoughts and emotions
maybe all writing counts on some level even when it doesn't

Are there any philosophers/authors who acknowledge that life is shit but make a case for the struggle? Motivating, life-affirming pessimism, basically?

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>knowing all the first generation Pokémon pokedex

If you're teaching English to young ESL kids, this is actually useful to know.

My life is really fucking boring. Wake up, work, sleep, and repeat. I'm so sick of it, every day is worse than the last. Everyone else I know is always happy and living an amazing life whilst mine is literally horrible.

I really want to get away from society and away from the endless void of modern life. I'm seriously thinking of either going north, buying a shack, and living out my life there; only going to society for supplies. Or becoming a monk in some third world country like Nepal or Bhutan. I know the language so it shouldn't be too fucking hard right?

What is the most depressing book you have ever read, /lit/?

What can books or essays can /lit/ recommend a 21 year old nobody wondering about his future, the future of the world and the future of his country amid all the change going on in the world and the steady acceleration of change we can expect over the next few decades?

Guys, intellectually I'm all spooked out. I can't stand philosophy because of all the unfalsifiable garbage. Many fields like economics etc are just applied common sense and stamp collecting. I see novels as nothing but entertainment despite pretentious people claiming life / philosophical insights and tonnes of people will consider you a disgusting plebeian if you don't initially read shitloads of boring as fuck canon novels.

I think I am painfully adapting to the idea of the Internet age / information overload by abandoning any pretension that I can be an all rounder or even dilettante in everything. There are ten trillion books called "Introduction to [broad and important field]", even if you only have one of each field.

History is similar to novels. Shitloads of reading along with a shitload pretension thrown on top telling you that you truly cannot no nuthin unless you have an in depth understanding of the Greeks / Romans / Christianity / USA / WW1 / WW2 / financial systems / or shitloads of other topics I can't stand it. And then there's current events. I don't care about climate change, outer space, inequality, China, the EU, applied psychology, the education system, diversity, Russia, South America, refugees, nutrition, mental health, and more. Admitting just one of these would make me an iredeemable idiot, no doubt.

Has anyone else had similar thoughts? The spooks are powerful and must be removed but their removal leaves your mind in a promordial state that is more susceptible to spooks than before.

I go to the city centre and see people shopping and the streets are busy, which is comforting compared to when they're empty, but walking through then brings no epiphanies.

I am so past watching movies or tv shows, even ones that pander to "edgy" young males. I just about read books but only because society tells me I should, though I don't derive much enjoyment

And obviously I have an existential crisis but /lit/ is fucking pathetic in demanding that anyone who has one should immediately "grow up" and become a monotheist and wagecuck. I fucking hate wagecucking. Seeing attractive young people is humiliating. I tell myself every day that I'll soon work intensely on one thing but I can't bear to do this. If you're really good at one thing then there are people lining up to call you a tard for not watching opera or being able to run a marathon or whatever shit. So I do nothing.

Every "thinker" is at their core an utter fucking fraud. Nietzche is a Tony Robbins tier Rorschach test. Science and mathematics provide non trivial insights but only in ultra specialised ways that probably require autism to appreciate. I listen to In Our Time podcasts and Bret Easton Ellis podcasts and I think at heart everyone cares about nothing more than social drama.

I think we all need to man up and admit that money, youth, videogames, and good looks are as good as it gets. But not everyone gets.