I can completely see that my outlook on life was unknowingly given to me by a dead economist who was given his own by a dead philosopher.
So where are the alternative ways of looking for at life? Religion, or even believing in philosophy's ability to give non-trivial insights, seems to be a safe space bubble for pseuds who either think they're intellectually above nihilism or they knowingly use it to help their feelings cope.
>>9187901
how about you stop relying on outside sources and instead use your own experiences and conclusions to form your individual world view and value system?
you can still compare them to others and you can still find new shit dou want to add to your own mentality but it won't be simply "given to you"
>>9187933
I do that. But then ten trillion people come at you with abuse. "Read ten thousand pages of Plato or else you have no right to have an opinion!"
>>9187996
>"Read ten thousand pages of Plato or else you have no right to have an opinion!"
And those people are called schuedenfreudian masochistic trolls
>>9187996
well then, tell them you did and that's your conclusion
>fight me
also, why would you give a single fuck about people who are reading plato?
>>9188000
I'm not even joking. This type of thinking has infested everything.
I don't just mean Plato. I mean everything.
And I'm talking about /lit/ especially. This whole "canon" shit is just pseudointellectuals banding together to give their opinions an air of objectivity.
>>9188018
well, that's just like - your opinion. man
best comeback ever for people trying to bash you with their "knowledge". tey don't realize tht plato and seneca, aurelius and kierkegaard are simply autistic humans too who were entitled enough to think their shitty conclusions about life are worth writing down. and then some even bigger idiots put it on a pedestal and call it "facts" and "he was roght about everything" without forming their own way of thinking about life and humanity. why would you want to fit in with them if there's the possibility to think for yourself?
>hurr durr I'm mentally challenged therefore everyone is a pseud