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What is the high-brow, intellectual, faustian version of "shiiiiieeettt"?

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I simply fucking hate all the shit that society and pseudo intellectuals say I should do.

I don't give a shit about gigantic boring as fuck paid by the word Victorian novels or trivial as fuck of their time ranting Russian novels or motivational speaker tier edgy philosophers who would never get away with their shit today by the same pseuds who praise them so much. And I can't believe that late 20th century PoMo has managed to be worse than all that came before, but I'm supposed to worship that as well.

This isn't 800 AD anymore. The pseuds pretend that wanking over the Greeks and Bible is 95 % of what an intellectual is. They never acknowledge anything that isn't academised. They note STEM as a trivial footnote while using it as a launching pad for their own contemporary flailing about within the infinitely large unfalsifiable space of ideas.

I don't care about psychology, macroeconomics, psychiatry, the Education system, wars in far away places, and lots of other stuff.

Life truly does end after university. Every fucking issue is sent through the prism of universities these days. Humanities and social sciences are all bullshit and they try to monopolise so much common sense and twist it. Of course you can't say that and /lit/ will defend them.

I am not entertained by TV shows, video games, or movies any more. Novels are mostly narcissistic barely disguised memoirs.

The working world is 1 % intelligence and 99 % a test of normieness.

Women have lives on easy mode and only go for Chads. People actively hate introverts. University prestige is the main factor for success in life. Most of culture is now too ephemeral to have any significance at all. Travelling is the new alternative to reading big books. Coffee is wagie fuel. I lift heavy weights but I can admit it's a sign of betaness. Working is horrific.

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This is it.

Please don't embarrass yourself by mentioning the Great Gatsby.

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Humanities academics are rejects w/no common sense substituting thinking w/universal slogans, destroying student's discernment and reasoning.

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>I read books to look intellectual to compensate for all my other shortcomings in life

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What does /lit/ think about Philip K. Dick?

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What was his endgame?

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What are some good books that deal with the creation of life - homunculus?

I already read Paracelsus and Faust

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Like, books that will rattle you to the core. I'm talking real Brendan-tier books.

Can I get some recs?

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When did you grow up and finally realise this was the truth?

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What's /lit/'s opinion on this?

heard its supposed to be dark and spooky. is it a meme or should I take it seriously?

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Drop books that have influenced you in such a way, you have since never been the same. Life changing literature, books, short stories, anything. I'm craving the feeling of having my mind blown.

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>If Chip had wanted to come clean to someone in his family, his little sister would have been the obvious choice. Having dropped out of college and having married badly, Denise at least had some acquaintance with darkness and disappointment. Nobody but Enid, however, had ever mistaken Denise for a failure. The college she’d dropped out of was better than the one that Chip had graduated from, and her early marriage and more recent divorce had given her an emotional maturity that Chip was all too aware of lacking himself, and he suspected that even though Denise was working eighty hours a week she still managed to read more books than he did. In the last month, since he’d embarked on projects like digitally scanning Melissa Paquette’s face from a freshman facebook and suturing her head to obscene downloaded images and tinkering with these images pixel by pixel (and the hours did fly by when you were tinkering with pixels), he’d read no books at all.

did 'facebook' used to be slang for yearbook or something? cause this book came out in 2001 and the first instance of facebook was created in 2003. just wondering what the term facebook is referring to here.

also wow some things never change

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Why is the greatest art produced from sorrow?

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>he believes in objective artistic value