/lit/ - Literature

do you even have moments where it really hits you not just how crappy the world is or whatever, but just how completely and utterly off the rails insane things are? the world isn't just fucked, its fucked in a way that is genuinely surreal, bizarre, like a bad dream with uncomfortable visions of realities falling apart and debris colliding into new and horrific constructs that shouldn't be. it HAS to be some sort of psychological warfare or malicious social engineering

>>17681179
>I don't get how someone can read something like this and go "HA, get fucked faggots"


I agree with where youre coming from but its nothing sinister methinks, just cope. I think the idea is that if youre trapped in a never ending nightmare existence in constant anguish, and you manage to muster up a laugh about the situation and derive some pleasure out of it, creating a minuscule oasis for yourself amongst your suffering, then go ahead and laugh away

>moral and cultural values have almost completely collapsed
>cultures replaced by mass consumerism and social media
>vast majority of people dont develop skills, just play videogames and browse social media
>people are non functional to the point where a majority of them are eating themselves to death, suicides are skyrocketing, birthrates are collapsing and the dysfunctional western peoples are just being tossed aside and replaced by nonwhites to keep the economy rolling in their absence so the elites can prop up their lifestyles

if this isn't collapsing then what is

>>16644662
>1 word essay in 80 years
Is it over?

>talking about philosophy with my family
>they all make fun of me for using concepts like "categorical imperative" or "phenomenology"

>25 years old
>starting an industrial engineering major in a week
>don't care about it in the slightest
>not even sure what it is
>signed up because it sounds good and might land me a cozy job that pays well
>will probably drop out because math makes my brain bleed
Why is living with integrity so hard? I'm even ashamed to tell people I'm going to study this because everyone will instantly know that this decision is inauthentic. Why am I such a coward? Why am I so scared to pursue what really tickles my fancy? Why is money such a driving force in my mind when I make just a little above minimum wage and I'm completely satisfied with it?

>>16470639
Books to help me cope with balding due to chronic stress before 25?