>bought this book maybe 5 to 6 years ago, when I was much

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>bought this book maybe 5 to 6 years ago, when I was much more of a pleb (only started reading books not handed out to me from 2009)
>thought it was boring as fuck
>thought it was so boring I stopped reading it and threw the book in the trash
>look at the contents of it now on Amazon, as a much wiser person
>realise that the book is a boring collection of mental masturbation by "intellectuals" that consists of puffed up, purple prosed ramblings or embarrassingly bad attempts to theorise about topics that could never be figured out a priori; or philosophising that consisted of vague or outright wrong assertions

My brain honestly fucking rejects this type of nonsense. To give the Greeks credit (and to try to get you guys to agree with me and not engage in mandatory anti-OP edginess), at least they only aspired to "stoners in the park" tier speculations. This book's verbose and pseudo-profound (and utterly commercialised, as much as people try to ignore it) style is SO fucking boring. SO uninsightful. Filled with SO many half assed false assertions. Works of this style have SO many pseudo intellectuals claiming their profundity and insight and genius.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Oxford-Essays-Books-Prose-Verse/dp/0199556555