/lit/ - Literature

My friend will not let go from the notion that Hegel's Spirit is just his individual instantiation that needs to "grasp" (begreifen) all that trivially constitutes his individual existence.
He says shit like
>when I close the door the world outside ceases to exist
>objects are not spirit
>China? Napoleon? Caesar? Himalaya? That's just God, irrelevant to me and to remain mystifying.

He says he has read the Phenomenology, but I doubt he didn't skip the foreword and read more than just the foreword and first pages.

My question:
Is this how youtube and wikipedia educated people interpret Hegel or where does he get this myopic opinion from?

>522. If we take the speech of this disorientation, which is so clear to itself, and contrast it with the speech of that simple consciousness of the true and the good, we find that the latter, when confronting the frank andself-aware eloquence of the culturally formed and educated spirit,canonly speak in monosyllables, for it can say nothing to that spirit which the culturally formed and educated spirit does not itself know and say. If it gets beyond speaking in monosyllables, then it says the same thing that the culturally formed and educated spirit expresses, but in doing so, it still commits itself to the foolishness of thinking that it is saying something new and different. Even its own syllables, when it speaks of thedisgracefuland the base(d), are already this foolishness, for the culturally formed and educated consciousness says the same things about itself. However much in its speech this spirit both inverts all that is monotonous,because this self-equal is only an abstraction, in its actuality it is, however, in itself that veryinversion, and however much in contrast the unbowed consciousness takes the good and the noble under its protection, i.e., what retains its sameness of meaning in its expression in the only way here possible – which is to say that the good does not lose its value because it is bound up with the bad or mingled with it, for this is supposed to be its condition and necessity,and the wisdom of nature is supposed to lie therein – still this consciousness,while it intends to contradict that speech, has as a result only summed up in a trivial way the content of spirit’s speech – which, while having turned the opposite of the noble and the good into the condition for and the necessity of the noble and the good, and while unthinkingly supposing itself to be saying something other than that what is called noble and good,is in its essence the inversion of itself, just as, conversely, the bad is the excellent.

Books to understand how people read and understand Hegel but then turn away from him again and become retards like Bertrand Russell?
i.e. go from the disoriented back to the simple consciousness?

Hegel's Last Words:
>There was only one man who ever understood me, and even he didn't understand me.

how do I find suffering in a sheltered lifestyle?
The times I have suffered forced me to evolve, i need some more, I want to build character.