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Guys, intellectually I'm all spooked out. I can't stand philosophy because of all the unfalsifiable garbage. Many fields like economics etc are just applied common sense and stamp collecting. I see novels as nothing but entertainment despite pretentious people claiming life / philosophical insights and tonnes of people will consider you a disgusting plebeian if you don't initially read shitloads of boring as fuck canon novels.
I think I am painfully adapting to the idea of the Internet age / information overload by abandoning any pretension that I can be an all rounder or even dilettante in everything. There are ten trillion books called "Introduction to [broad and important field]", even if you only have one of each field.
History is similar to novels. Shitloads of reading along with a shitload pretension thrown on top telling you that you truly cannot no nuthin unless you have an in depth understanding of the Greeks / Romans / Christianity / USA / WW1 / WW2 / financial systems / or shitloads of other topics I can't stand it. And then there's current events. I don't care about climate change, outer space, inequality, China, the EU, applied psychology, the education system, diversity, Russia, South America, refugees, nutrition, mental health, and more. Admitting just one of these would make me an iredeemable idiot, no doubt.
Has anyone else had similar thoughts? The spooks are powerful and must be removed but their removal leaves your mind in a promordial state that is more susceptible to spooks than before.
I go to the city centre and see people shopping and the streets are busy, which is comforting compared to when they're empty, but walking through then brings no epiphanies.
I am so past watching movies or tv shows, even ones that pander to "edgy" young males. I just about read books but only because society tells me I should, though I don't derive much enjoyment
And obviously I have an existential crisis but /lit/ is fucking pathetic in demanding that anyone who has one should immediately "grow up" and become a monotheist and wagecuck. I fucking hate wagecucking. Seeing attractive young people is humiliating. I tell myself every day that I'll soon work intensely on one thing but I can't bear to do this. If you're really good at one thing then there are people lining up to call you a tard for not watching opera or being able to run a marathon or whatever shit. So I do nothing.
Every "thinker" is at their core an utter fucking fraud. Nietzche is a Tony Robbins tier Rorschach test. Science and mathematics provide non trivial insights but only in ultra specialised ways that probably require autism to appreciate. I listen to In Our Time podcasts and Bret Easton Ellis podcasts and I think at heart everyone cares about nothing more than social drama.
I think we all need to man up and admit that money, youth, videogames, and good looks are as good as it gets. But not everyone gets.
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>>9595413
You're on the wrong place, then, friendo.
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>>9595413
Try to cut yourself off from the pseudo-reality of videogams before anything by ceasing to engage yourself in "gamer culture". It was only when I did this that I got really interested in reading and studying for its own sake (and lifting).
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>>9595413
Say, do you enjoy /r9k/?
I think you would.
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>>9596178
It seemed familiar...
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>>9595413
kill yourself
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Pasta or not, it's an interesting topic
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>>9597506
I find this topic very relevant to my situation. Looking at threads in the archive where this pasta shows up
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Get over yourself OP. You're spouting middle-school level pretentious pseudo-intellectual bullshit. You should really just go and see a therapist, but let's go through line by line:
>I can't stand philosophy because of all the unfalsifiable garbage
You're frustrated because no one's figured out anything yet? That's reasonable, but you ought to look back into it. The fact that so many different theories can be incredibly persuasive, yet, at their very end, can't be proven, is part of the whole point of philosophy, and dare I say life.
>Many fields like economics etc are just applied common sense and stamp collecting
I also find a lot of the sciences/etc to be pretty boring, but come on now, you're simplifying these fields you don't like because, likely, you don't actually understand them.
>I see novels as nothing but entertainment despite pretentious people claiming life / philosophical insights
You're really on the wrong board. Novels can be entertaining, sure, they ought to be, but more fundamentally, they're the best form of communication. They can describe and evoke feelings, moments, ideas, that normal language just can't seem to do. It's about understanding living, dude, chill out.
Maybe you're just reading the wrong books dude.
>tonnes of people will consider you a disgusting plebeian if you don't initially read shitloads of boring as fuck canon novels.
Canon's great pleb. Takes some time to get used to, sure, but you're a fuckin philistine if you dislike something just because it's old.
>There are ten trillion books called "Introduction to [broad and important field]", even if you only have one of each field.
This has always been the case, the information age has just made us more aware of it. Nobody's ever been an all-rounder. Some have come close, but you can't ever get all of it, that' just how it is.
>Shitloads of reading along with a shitload pretension thrown on top telling you that you truly cannot no nuthin unless you have an in depth understanding of x
You're spending too much time on 4chan dude. You can certainly reach a good understanding of history through books, even, imo, wikipedia can give you a pretty good basis. You're always gonna miss a detail, of course, but so does everyone else. Why is this mastery of everything so important to you?
>I don't care about x
I have a feeling this has a lot less to do with the events themselves, but rather how you're feeling internally. It doesn't help that current events are depressing as fuck. Everything is interesting-- honestly.
>Has anyone else had similar thoughts?
Yes, but then I realized that the problem was me, that I was depressed, anxious, miserable, and misanthropic for absolutely no reason. And I grew out of it, largely thanks to a good therapist and supportive friends.
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