/lit/ - Literature

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The book that changed the direction of my life/thinking the most was Beyond Good and Evil. Before reading this book I was a rationalist liberal, but it made me realize rationalism is a non-starter position full of tautology and is antithetical to our organic core.
For example, at the time I was listening to a lot of black metal. How does one rationally justify the utility of black metal? I was deeply touched by tragic heroic archetypes and Dionysian energy the music invoked, but it was reaching me in a pre-rational way. I didn't have words to describe what it was pulling at inside me, and when I realized what it was pulling at wasn't at all rational, I moved further away from rationalism-as-ideology.