/lit/ - Literature

>"‘I have always been able to recognise the lonely,’ he wrote in his diary. ‘They don’t walk the same way as other people. It is as if they don’t carry any joy, any spark within themselves ... I am looking for a word for the opposite of loneliness. I would like to find a different word to love, which is far too overworked and inadequate. Tenderness, peace of mind and soul, togetherness? ... In brief what I have just now so clumsily tried to express is that I have always been a lonely man.’"

>"Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves."

Arranged marriage, on its face, would solve a lot of America's problems, for both men and women. But if free (unarranged) marriage was still legal, it wouldn't be effective due to envy, lust, and the desire for narcissistic differentiation in selection of mates. For example, does a lonely, unattractive man hold out for the slim chance of marrying an attractive, young woman, or does he submit for an arranged marriage? There are reasons for him to regret either decision. So, the only way arranged marriage can work is if it's the only type of marriage allowed. Before I adopt support of forced arranged marriage, however, the interim period of existing free marriages must be addressed. These existing free marriages are all but guaranteed to cause dangerous amounts of envy and bitterness that result in depression, divorce, and in the worst cases suicide or murder by one partner. Therefore I propose first an annulment of all existing free marriages, followed by an optional, but guaranteed, redistribution by random selection (details of this random selection process need to be worked out). This obliteration of all free marriages provides a workable foundation for mandatory arranged marriages that minimizes the pernicious effects of narcissism and envy.

>told my mom I was majoring in economics
>she asks me what is economics

Any books on wasting your prime years (18-30) and the psychological impact of realising that you did so?

Are there any novels where a character experiences this sort of thing?

How childish or stupid is writing a letter to a woman?

Why is /lit/ so argumentative? Can’t we just talk about books?

What are some books about Romantic Failure?

>>20117825
In 2022, not 2014
Freudian Slip

Best literature that deals with themes of nostalgia?

I have a strong desire to leave society and take part in some kind of pilgrimage for the sake of my conscience and mental stability.

Are there any books about this or someone doing this?

Something inside me is deeply wrong, and I don't know if I am trying to flee it by wanting to disappear and live ascetically on foot for a while, or whether it is a healthy or in some sense beneficial desire. The prospect of sitting around making money is depressing to me although I have done this for years full-time. I have an urge to live cheaply and walk in a particular direction.

OP here. Since you are giving out advice. What did I do wrong? Should I have just let all my expectations for making female contacts go and fully focused on reading as well as discussing the book?
I was mogged so hard by these handsome guys that it felt hopeless as if I could have never stepped onto a level that let me get comfortable with everyone in the club.

Are there any good books about cowardice, especially novels featuring a cowardly narrator or protagonist?

Looking back at my life, it repulses me how cowardly I have behaved and the consequences of my cowardice.

The final redpill is realizing that all non-theological philosophy after the fall of Rome is totally, utterly worthless in every sense

To cope with existence

What are some lesser known/more niche works of philosophy that are worth reading?
Books that zone in on a single idea and really explore it in great depth.

>Peter Pan syndrome describes one's inability to believe that they are of an older age or to engage in behaviour usually associated with adulthood. This syndrome affects people who do not want or feel unable to grow up, people with the body of an adult but the mind of a child. They do not know how to or do not want to stop being children. The term comes from the fictional children's character Peter Pan, who never ages. [...] Some characteristics of the disorder are the inability of individuals to take on responsibilities, to commit themselves or to keep promises, excessive care about the way they look and personal well-being and their lack of self-confidence, even though they do not seem to show it and actually come across as exactly the opposite.

I'm pretty certain that Peter Pan syndrome applies to me, and it scares me (a lot). People at my workplace for example assume I am ten years younger than I am, and I am so inexperienced that I essentially have the life experience and skillset of an adolescent. It's deeply shameful to recognise myself in this syndrome.

That said, what books would you recommend to someone like me?

I genuinely don't know how to become more of a mature adult man, and the idea of being more confident, assertive, money / career orientated, sexually active, sociable and so on don't appeal to me on an instinctive level.

>gf is happy that her substack post got 8 likes
>I made 6 dummy accounts to like the post

>all philosophy after 1300 is just skepticism

why did this happen?