Literature to feel less important?

[Anonymous No.13573273]

Consumerism is spoiling us into thinking we are special when in fact we aren't
Any authors that address this problem?

[Anonymous No.13573288]

>>13573273

What does size have to do with meaning?

[Anonymous No.13573294]

>>13573273
We're the only planet with intelligent life we've found so far, that's pretty special if you ask me.

[Anonymous No.13573299]

>>13573273
So basically you want literature to become depressed
>>13573288
If your dick is smaller than 8 inches and are less than 6 feet tall, you mean nothing to women

[Anonymous No.13573302]

>>13573288
nothing

[Anonymous No.13573307]

>>13573299
t. incel

[Anonymous No.13573316]

>>13573299
>to women

I said meaning.

[Anonymous No.13573351]

>>13573273
>i'm not special
>all the markers on the maps are pointing out where i am, there is only one of me

[Anonymous No.13573362]

What you mean we not special? We get to ride a speck of dust around a minor star for a plank second.

[Anonymous No.13573366]

>>13573299
>If your dick is smaller than 8 inches and are less than 6 feet tall, you mean nothing to women
it varies from country to country, though.

[Anonymous No.13573378]

>>13573273
the bible

[Anonymous No.13573385]

Typical globebead nonsense. Ask yourself why (((they))) want you to think humans are not special?
>Its all meaningless guys, lets become reckless hedonists and accelerate the kali yuga!!!!
Wake the fuck up, we are special, earth is a special place, we have souls, we are higher beings trapped in a human body. Read Evola, Jung, and Plato.

[Anonymous No.13573419]

>>13573299
>So basically you want literature to become depressed
its the contrary
people are depressed because of too much self importance

[Anonymous No.13573452]

>>13573273
>That image

You are a complete faggot unable to appreciate beauty. Please stop reading literature, and study the most souless yet profitable field you can find.

[Anonymous No.13573463]

>>13573299
By that logic over half the population wouldn't even exist

[Anonymous No.13573489]

>>13573419
this. if i weren't bound by the limits of believing i was meant to do something bigger, either by my own, the universe's, or my loved one's standards, while also being surrounded by people who, as people do, suffer the same delusion yet whose failing to live up to them is more apparent to me than my own, i doubt i'd feel the paralyzing pressure of expectation as intensely as i do now

[Anonymous No.13573737]

>>13573273
And yet in all that space there is only one of me. My perspective might be small and limited But It's unique and as such priceless.

[Anonymous No.13573793]

>>13573294
>A frog lived down in a hole where there was all he had to live. One day, a softshelled turtle came by and told him about the sea. 'The sea? Hah! It's paradise in here. Nothing can be better than this well. Why don't you come down and share my joy?'

Zhuāng Zǐ

[Anonymous No.13573839]

>>13573273

well, you are special, the odds of your birth incredibly infinitesimal coupled with so far that we know, we're the only critical thinking beings in the entire universe.

[Anonymous No.13573843]

well, you are special, the odds of your birth are incredibly infinitesimal coupled with so far that we know, we're the only critical thinking beings in the entire universe.

[Anonymous No.13573875]

>>13573737
>unique
so is every rock and sand grain

[Anonymous No.13574128]

>>13573793
You're missing my point and distorting my argument so badly I don't even know how to respond... as far as we know now, we are all alone in the universe, and that's a fact. There is nothing for us in "the sea" but death. We're no better equipped to deal with the vacuum of space than frogs are to breathe salt water.

[Anonymous No.13574178]

>>13573273
this is water
You can think differently. You can choose what you think. But it takes rigorious training and efforts.

[Anonymous No.13574185]

>>13574178
>with rigorous training and efforts I can learn to survive in the vacuum of space

I wish you good luck, sir.

[Anonymous No.13574196]

>>13573273
fuck you faggot, i'm the most unique and important person on this planet.

[Anonymous No.13574275]

>>13573273
I pity you being this much of a brainlet and failing to see that consumerism, in point of these loose fact, validates your conclusions which is why it serves as an ephemeral ember to take away from this idea that, we are not "special" [sic]—requiring distraction after distraction, all transitory, to drown out this thought and more importantly, that of your own mortality. No. Rather, I emphatically and utterly reject the idea that existence is not unique, much less in respects to being masked by the immensity of scale of the universe, which shows a flawed if not diseased thought process from the start, which need not be explained to my fellow friends here. You forget that, all of these exists only within our a priori consciousness— the nails of Kant, hammered sharply and succinctly into even the minds of brainlet's in Schopenhauer's aphorism: "The world is (my) idea". Indeed, without a conscious observer, the enormity of the universe matters not! As it would have no existence at all. Hence, experience of reality is more important than the grandness of reality itself, its preeminence transcends all.

[Anonymous No.13574290]

We derive meaning from our social context, not by some random property of the universe. This "muh heat death of the universe" shit is just used as a coping mechanism for an underlying feeling of social inadequacy.

[Anonymous No.13574312]

>>13573273
the conspiracy against the human race

e. m. cioran

lovecraft's fiction and essays

if you dont mind the cliché (although one could say all i've listed is cliché) fight club, either the movie or the book

[Anonymous No.13574476]

>>13573299
Stop dating pornstars then dumbass. Women are happy with anything above 4inches.

[Anonymous No.13574491]

>>13573273
Everyone is special.

[Anonymous No.13574571]

>>13574491
lol

[Anonymous No.13574620]

>>13573273

Holy shit, have sex immediately!

[Anonymous No.13574631]

>>13574476
I'm actually kind of flattered that you assumed I dated porn stars

[Anonymous No.13574639]

>>13574571
>>13573273
What's your point? We're physically small in relation to other things ergo we are unimportant? What a retarded take. I would sacrifice all of the non-sentient galaxies before I would sacrifice one human being. If your point is that nothing we do has any cosmic significance then I agree, but I would retort by saying something doesn't need to be cosmically significant for it to be locally significant.

[Anonymous No.13574653]

>>13574631
Imagine taking the chad meme and reducing him to the status of a cuck whose "girlfriend" is fucked by other men for a living. NOT CHAD and NOT gonna make it.

[Anonymous No.13574656]

>>13574639

You wouldn't sacrifice shit.

[Anonymous No.13574669]

>>13574275
real chad
>>13574631
fake chad

[Anonymous No.13574836]

>>13573875
Irrelevant Because they aren't sapient and have no perspective.

[Anonymous No.13574894]

>>13574836
>sapient rare
7.000.000.000 sapient beings on this planet only, most certainly there are infinitely more on the entire Universe

[Anonymous No.13574941]

>>13574894
Then why haven't we made contact with them yet? Surely, if life was abundant in the universe, we would have stumbled upon someone at some point

[Anonymous No.13574959]

>>13574941
>what are UFOs

[Anonymous No.13575147]

>>13573273
lovecraft

[Anonymous No.13575899]

>>13573273
>you are small and space is big
>that means you don't matter lol
damn, how much rick and morty have you been watching?

[Anonymous No.13575916]

>>13574959
There is this weird sliding scale between sceptical /lit/ users who won't even take their friends and family seriously and full on conspiracy schizos who adopt whatever things they believe will make them feel superior.

I wonder which one is more arrogant.

[Anonymous No.13575945]

>>13573875
I'm just a galaxy to them as the milky way is to me. Whatever I do is irrelevant to the personal lives of germs and bacteria. I just serve as a backdrop

[Anonymous No.13575955]

>>13573273
This is not unique to consumerism, the idea that humans are special in creation is literally in the Bible.

[Anonymous No.13576013]

>>13573793
so who is this turtle who told you about "outer space" as your small white boy mind defines it? magic sci-fi aliens?

[Anonymous No.13576041]

>>13573273
>Dude space, mannn. We're stardust, duuude!!!

[Anonymous No.13576076]

>>13573273
Literally David Foster Wallace

[Anonymous No.13576129]

>>13573273
byung chul han

[Anonymous No.13576140]

>>13573273
The Rise And Fall Of The Gillette Razor Empire

[Anonymous No.13576610]

>>13574894
You don't believe in God but are certain of aliens.
The complete retardation of the human mind.