Examining our lives in 2016

really makes you think

>>1789333
My goal is to finally get a gf and be a millionaire.

I'm working on my business, but I don't know where to start in order to attract a mate, I don't even have any friends.

The way I see it, there are two kinds of people, those that go with the flow, follow the structures and rules others have built around them - or those that hate being bound by others. I mean no disrespect, society needs stable, dependable followers, but it's just anathema to me. I'd much rather impose my will on others than have them impose their will on me. The only way to do this is to accumulate capital.

They say making your first million is the hardest and boy are they fucking right. I've failed uni, failed my first business, but the second business is showing promise. If I can just stay sane long enough while I improve the product and get more customers, I'm sure it will be a success. Unfortunately I feel my sanity slowly but surely deteriorating. If I just had a gf, I would be beyond happy and have a much sounder mind.

I'm a 26 y/o kissless virgin, so it's quite obvious why I'd want a gf. You could say why don't you just go to a prostitute, but I still have my pride - I want my first time to be with someone who wants me for me, not my money. It's funny looking back, but earlier this year, on my birthday in fact, I was so desperate I approached a girl for the first time in my life. It was at a train station, I noticed her for a few days, she was really beautiful in a bookish way. So as she was walking past me, I tried to get her attention and say "hi", she obviously noticed since she stiffened up a little and continued walking while I said "hey" again. It was obviously crushing for me, but I feel sorry for that poor girl now - I'm pretty tall and somewhat intimidating looking so she must have been terrified.

I'd much rather be dead at this point, the only thing keeping me going is the faint hope that the business may be a success and then I'll finally be able to get a gf.

Because I'd rather wait for the moment I finally have enough balls to jump off a bridge

1. I dunno. Stoic libertarian? My goal is to be some kind of political revolutionary; help my country become a republic, or a confederacy or something.

If not that, then live comfortably off the grid and as self-sufficiently as possible.

2. yes, although I have pretty good self control.
>Will thinking confident thoughts let me do more reps in the gym?
yes

3.
no

History is the foundation which we build the house of the future on

>>1789333
This post really got me thinking, and I don't mean it ironically like >>1789388 does

Has the 'contrarian' movement of intellectual self-cultivation by reading books, learning languages and watching operas etc. also been hijacked and become a form of consumerism no different from the mainstream?

What is responsible entertainment even these days and what is blind consumerism or hedonism?

>>1789419
This post hit me in the feels pretty hard, since I can relate to the desire for gf and the idea that once that happens everyone else will fall into place.

What kind of business are you working on?

>>1789333
1. I've adopted a sort of Stoicism, largely influenced by The Hermeneutics of the Subject (Foucault), Self Reliance, The American Scholar (Emerson), Justine (De Sade), Ideology (Althusser).

I have goals, ones I know I can achieve. To study undergrad at Edinburgh University, masters at Cambridge, Followed by PHD at Yale/U South Cali LA/Berkeley then go on to think and teach. Also to get fitter.

I plan my day when I wake up in the morning, tackling in whatever order I deem appropriate, the things necessary to get me what I want.

No, I ponder those things for as long as they're a problem, meaning until I have a solution and execute it. I turn my phone off when I'm working, thinking, or reading.

Free will is another issue, what you're talking about is willpower.

3. This is daft, modern philosophy is what it is because of the past. I'm not saying that you have to read everything ever, but you cannot ignore pre 1950s philosophy by only studying contemporary philosophy because it is so heavily ingrained.

Anyways, I learned a lot that I probably would not have done about the Stoics, Rhetors, Cynics, Christianity, Plato, Epictetus and indeed, myself, by reading The Hermeneutics of the Subject because Foucault's reading of ancient texts is so brilliant.

>>1793373
That is to say, rather than just reading the ancient texts (translated) myself.

My end goal is to either acquire glory or to have a large family. I haven't decided which yet. I don't care much for riches and wealth, i reject materialism because i'm a reactionary shitlord. I don't have any set plan but the most likely so far is that i will establish a primitivist off-grid community together with some other cunts who share my vision of (to some extent) living off the land. I don't reject technology, but i aspire to a certain degree of self-sufficiency. I could also go for the "glory" option, and try to make it as a soldier, but that's looking less likely now, i'll probably go with the living-of-the-land option.

The way i live like right now is not sustainable (spiritually), i consider this a transitory phase before i move onto greener pastures.

In the end, i know that nothing lives forever, but Tradition and Glory comes close. Through tradition your customs and bloodline and your memory can live forever, and through glorious actions similar results can be achieved. This is all of course a striving for the infinite, which may seem futile to some, but it's in my eyes the highest possible ideal. I will not colonize the galaxy but maybe my distant ancestors will, if i lay the groundwork.

>>1789333
>I have been cucked out of my free will by my own stupidity and marketing. I don't even have confidence in my ability to avoid junk food or sit down and do work anymore.

Are you me?

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>>1789333
1. Life philosophy? Goals?
I live essentially as an Absurdist at this point. I think my future is more or less hopeless but comfortably so and dedicate myself to profitless but very rewarding physical pursuits mostly improving as a martial artist and as a fencer. I do have related goals and training gives my day and week structure. It is an anachronistic waste of time that i thoroughly enjoy.

>2. Faux psychological terms?
Yes and I like to understand them better and find more. Sometimes even purely surperstitious nonsense as well.

>3. Derive your life philosophy from post 1950?
No if anything I prefer to ignore everything since. Most of the best lessons are earlier.

>Why care about "great rulers".
Yes. One of the great driving inspirations of my mentality and life is Carl Sagans Pale Blue Dot speech and his section on how all these people were 'the momentary masters of a fraction of dot' is immensely profound to me but in a way I find depressing or invokes despair. Actually in my most proud moments say when hittings a new personal best on a heavy compund lift I usually like to think of myself the momentary master of a fraction of dot.

4.Art
You shouldn't. Art is nothing profound in itself it's just the product of and the potential cause of inspiration. Further thought and self betterment by understanding. Your bank balance grows and wanes too. I care about money in a passive aggressive way as a career success is elusive to me but not for moneys sake. I like have the amount of money I have because it gives me freedom to train as much as I want and live NEET off my own savings. The only desire i have for more money isn't really for the money at all but to impress a girl and get to explore love more and in better ways but many people I know which 1% of my money are way ahead there.

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>Do you have goals? Do you have no goals?
redundancy. fuck off I hate you.

I didn't read anyone's posts in this circlejerk attention-whore thread.