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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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>>9791748
>stamp collecting
sorry i'm not from reddit can u explain this slang
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>>9791748
Fag
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Since like the 1700s most fields of science have grown so vast that one man could not possibly master more than one.
Stop thinking you can master every topic, it's much wiser to master one topic than be vaguely familiar in a few.
Also stop giving a fuck about what people think about you.
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I know /lit/ will probably react indifferent to OP or call him a pleb but I think he has a point. I myself recently (year ago) started my "literary journey" thinking it would give me at least some added value but I can't help but feel reading non-fiction, and especially fiction if it doesn't have any direct application in real life is a waste of time.
I can't help but think whilst seeing friends and people in my surrounding who are "making money on the side" in their freetime (evening and weekends) have it by the right end. Whilst you are reading "The Western Canon" they are making money, starting potential businesses, studying/learning marketable skills or are on the road to finanical independence. I think I couldnt bear the sight of one of them driving a nice car (for instance) past my house after 5 years whilst i'm still masturbating to Dostoevsky or Faulkner in my living room.
I know there is a thing called balance, yes reading 1 or 2 hours a day wouldn't hurt but the returns on the time invested in reading are just to meager. I personally have way more fun spending a 120 euro's with friends that took me 8 hours to earn then reading a book in that same time. Yes, I work 40 hours a week and yes I earn a good living but I feel striving for a more "Bilzarian" lifestyle (with the lack of a better example) by being more enterprising in your free time in the end is more fullfilling then becoming a "literary/wise/knowledgable" type like Bloom or Wallace.
*excuse me for my grammar
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>>9791748
You're ready for the final stage.
Read Mind is a Myth.
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>>9791824
>reading for one year
>unironically giving an opinion
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I swear this is a pasta?
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>>9791878
It isn't, but I wouldn't tell you if it was
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>>9791748
It's a good point. Trying to know enough to have justifiable opinions on everything that we're "expected" to know is impossible. I don't really have any argument to that except the point of education could be to simply be able to build upon other ideas and get a good grasp for the intellectual "lay of the land". That would allow you to be more free from your natural biases that are a product of your birth and environment and understand what could be, which gives you a lot more agency in a world that is constantly trying to hem you into a certain path for somebody else's gain. But it is quite depressing that we don't even have a consistent education system for trying to order the various fields of knowledge and navigate the unknown world like the classical liberal arts used to.
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>spooked
stopped reading there
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I'm not OP but I created this cooypasta and someone else has been posting it for a while.
I have now moved on to more blackpilled rants (every woman has 5000 chad matches etc.) but everything in it still applies.
I think the "solution" is to live life as close to my tastes as possible. I'm going to read a few "important" books and then stop reading books for the sake of it
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>>9792071
>I'm not OP but I created this cooypasta and someone else has been posting it for a while.
I like it, I have made some nice copypastas myself, if I may say it, but nothing such grand as this one
You are a legend sir
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>>9791878
It is a pasta, even newfags already read it before.
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>>9791824
>hey guise i been a self-improving for a whole twelvemonth! i m a autodidact but idt it's working, halp!
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>>9791755
'Physics is the only real science. Everything else is just stamp collecting.' - Ernest Rutherford
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