/lit/ - Literature

>>16303581
Atlas Shrugged maybe.

She explains that a common fear of existing arrises from society browbeating each other into refuting reason and value, and as a consequence people do not bother equipping children to face the world with confidence to face their reality with hope of valuable experience. Just about everyone has bought into this vicious cycle of a lack of understanding of the value of living the best one can, and with every effort attempt to stifle the motion of the world into paralysis. They do not believe life is worth living and worship death as a means of ending life, which they find unbearable.

Personally, I had a moment on Saturday where I was suddenly able to perceive something I had been ignoring. I was walking through Barnes and Nobel scooping up the good shit and I realized that, outside of the section where they keep classics, every single fucking book was about death, or torture, or the insignificance of men.

People will try very hard to break you of your fire to remove an example of their unmet ideal from the world to assuage their guilt. Opt out. Notice from now on how the vast majority of conversations you have involve others leveraging your pity to attempt to force you to accept mediocrity and kill your individuality. I am here to report that you need not open yourself to that pity, nor engage the lie they propagate. But the habit may be strong for a bit, or awhile. You may feel powerful guilt for refusing to avoid upsetting people who are upset by goodness. Consider that your guilt is a consequence of consideration for people who are willfully exploiting your conscience to turn it on the best parts of yourself.

You’ll be aight.