/lit/ - Literature

>>16198207
>just randomly talk to people bro
>what? Of course I've never done this and gotten a friend out of it, what do you think I am some retard with no friends?
Everytime.

What do you think about this masterpiece of contemporary literature, /lit/?

>>8174170
>books about accepting the fact that everything is shit and getting worse until you die
Pic related.

>>8174176
>If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
>you have the power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJlPr2KHSFo
A cute notion, but deeply flawed. Perception and belief are not voluntary. Only analysis and (conscious) interpretation are, which give the illusion to the other two.
You can't choose not to be high after popping shrooms, for instance, but you can choose to compensate for the effects and fight to function at a passably sober level - in some respects at least - while tripping balls.
More correctly you can convince a casual observer you have the power. Which most people do as defense mechanisms desu

Have you ever read this, /lit/? What did you think?

i've got quite opposite effect
the more philosophy i read the happier i become

What do you think of this contemporary philosophical treatise, /lit/?

How much of this string of posts is true in reality? If so, do we have an obligation as a society to go against our instincts and give hope to the absolute hopeless, even if it challenges our world view?