/lit/ - Literature

>>21829693
>Let us suppose that, in the future, the birth of a human being occurs without pain, and that science succeeds in protecting humans from every disease: in short, that the old age of these protected beings is fresh and vigorous, ending suddenly with a gentle and painless death (euthanasia). Death is the only thing we cannot take away and, consequently, we have before us a short and painless life. Is this a happy life? Let us examine it carefully. The citizens of our ideal state are human beings of gentle character and developed intelligence. They have, so to speak, been inculcated with a complete knowledge - free from absurdity and error - and however they reflect upon it, they will always consider it to be right. There are no more effects whose causes are enigmatic. Science has indeed reached its pinnacle and every citizen is satisfied with its achievements. The sense of beauty is powerfully displayed in everything. We cannot suppose that all are artists, yet everyone indeed possesses the capacity to enter easily into an aesthetic relation. They have been freed from all worries, for their work has been organized in an unprecedented manner and everyone is self-governing. Are they happy? They would be if they did not feel in themselves a terrible monotony and emptiness. Their needs have been taken away from them; they truly have neither worry nor suffering, but instead they have been seized by tedium. They have paradise on earth, but its atmosphere is stifling and suffocating. If they still had enough energy to endure such an existence until natural death, they would surely not have the heart to go through it again as rejuvenated beings.
>Philosophie der Erlösung. Chapter III, pages 71-72

>>20853544
Mainlander
>>20853669
he helped Mainlander solve philosophy

>>20853645
wrong pic

>>20838770
Mainlander's philosophy of redemption, obviously

This dour cunt

You have been visited by the incel hobgoblin of pluralistic post-Schopenhauerian pessimism. Der Wille zum Tode and the movement toward nothingness will come to you, but only if you reply, "Hang loose, Mainy."

Can someone PLEASE post non-fiction and / or philosophy writers that didn't have a formal education? I need copium, and I don't want to kill an entire thread for my cope

>>17851193
What about those who DID kill themselves after writing their Magnus Opus?

>Carlo Michelstaedter
>Philipp Mainländer
>Otto Weininger

>>17215784

There is no hope

>>17163644
Lol.
>>17163650
Part of it, yes. But there's also a very common phenotypical facial features among nearly all depressed, nihilistic leftists. Weary eyes, low-T onions face. They always look like they're about to cry. Whenever I see that type of face, I already know that they're an ardent leftist nihilist, and this has never failed me so far.

Why is pessimism as a philosophy so unpopular?

Is it just because humans favor their comfortable copes over the hard to swallow truth? I feel like it's against biology to accept the bleakness of existence and that most would simply end their lives

>>16772844
Maybe he had a point.

I don't understand why he isn't more popular

He literally solved philosophy and offers a solution

Goodbye forever, /lit/

Is that Mainlander?

Is Philipp Mainländer worth reading?

>>15279828

>>14680726
OH NO NO NO. Wait a moment there sonny Jim.
Are you by any chance, Mr. Peterson, telling me that you are suffering from some kind of illness or some shit that is making you sad? Oh boohoo bucko. Clean your room. Be a man. Take responsibility. Do what you preach.
Anxiety is not so bad huh? Chemical dependency not so bad huh?

This is why Buddhism, Stoicism, all of these self improvement fads by daddy figures, Peterson, Nietzsche and his ubermensch, are so full of shit. This shit only works when life is treating you well on average, which is the situation of most first world white people. When it decides to treat you a little worse all you powerful supermen bend over like absolute sacks of shit. Hypocrites. Laughable.
Maybe he will choke on the pages of the bullshit he vomits for your men about self improvement.

This is why pessimism is the only correct worldview, and why it's dishonest to even call it pessimism. It's just realism, and the reality is life can absolutely destroy you no matter how many times you clean your room. All of you lying pieces of shit should be more humble in front of life and just pray it doesn't put you on your knees like it did to your daddy figures, lest you end up like Peterson here, running to be saved by Russians he so despises, or Nietzsche, having mental breakdowns and dying miserable of some kind of STD or brain cancer.

Die.

>what if existence... bad?

*solves existence*