/lit/ - Literature

im a waste, a loser. spent most of my life shitposting on the internet, i didnt learn much. my whole life i always wanted to be nothing. im a prisoner, a man on an island, a hermit. I was kind of hoping that an AI would kill all humans or mother nature would collapse industrial society through climate change. Im too much of a coward to kill myself. lazy, a coward, no ambition, and all for what? to work a 9 to 5 with my barely passed high school education. Life is meaningless and filled with endless suffering

Im a natural born pessimist, i always feel things are going to go wrong. The thing about being a pessimist is that people will hate you for telling the truth.
Another reason im a pessimist is because of climate change, i feel that its too late and we only have little time left till human extinction

like a spider on a string
washed down the drain
heaven knows my pain
I'm just a offering

when one is abandoned
to the shadows of the night
in a rotting house of blight
my eyes have been blackened

the wind whispers through her hair
her shadows wanders down the path
escaping a love that can not last
as she leaves, all i do is stare

in the garden
at the end
of history
we cant help
but feel something
has been lost

There is a star in the sky
Guiding my way with its light
And in the glow of the moon
Know my deliverance will come soon

Why are all of /lit/'s favorite books about depressed introverted loners who wander around and mope?

I fell for the No Longer Human/Hunger/The Stranger/Steppenwolf/Stoner memes over the course of the last few years, and that's on me I guess, but I need to know what other classics are like this so I know to avoid them in the future. I'm not a beta loser, and it's just getting so tiresome reading countless alleged "classics" about beta losers moping and hating themselves because I can't relate. Thanks in advance.

>>17322392
civic education

>>16900049
>The Magic Mountain
>The King's Two Bodies
Both are pretty boring slogs desu. At least Mann's prose is good.

This book brought me so much peace. I don't know why many of you ITT see it in such a bad light, but I cried several times, and when I wasn't crying I was laughing.

>>14688547
He simply knew too much and couldn't handle it.

>>14480197

>>12902242
i'm sorry you think this way i was just telling my personnal experience with it.
all i can say is don't go down the path I did

>>12891070
mfw i'm selfpublished

reminder that most doomers are not even pic related level

reminder that most bloomers are pic related level

What is going to happen is the world is going to turn into a chess board. A multi polar world. China isnt going to replace america. The world is going to turn into various blocs that all allie or oppose each other.

What no one realizes yet is, this will be the second cold war. And the second cold war wont be a war of ideologies, but a war of capitalisms. Western, liberal, free market capitalism, vs Chinese state capitalism

Whoever wins the second cold war is who inherits the world. That is of course if we dont all nuke each other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_work
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Cycle

>>12717104
>this is the kind of person posting on 4chan in 2019

>>12661545
>>12661808
>>12666366
>>12661572
>>12661600

All wrong, completely wrong. Especially the one with the strange trip I see everywhere.

>>12661701 is right in that they are just like ordinary people. At most you can expect them to have undergrad level philosophy or politics knowledge backed up up by years of keeping a hand in, going to talks, reading pop books, etc. Randi Zuckerberg is the height of sophistication most of them achieve or read. It's nothing. Peter Thiel is the only exception I can think of to this out of the surveillance capital/tech billionaires.

The billionaires genuinely believe in liberal causes. The think they are "progressive", there's no doublethink local solely to Zuck, Gates, etc. They all believe in liberalism, in Bono style Live Aid, in midwit ideas of charity and compassion and how the world works. Check out Zuckerberg's reading lists in articles like this:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-twitter-social-media-books-to-read-best-novels-amazon-waterstones-a8195186.html

Choice selections of things Zuckerberg says about books with zero irony:

World Order by Henry Kissinger
In former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's 2014 book, World Order, the 91 year-old analyses the ways different parts of the world have understood the concept of empire and political power for centuries, and how the modern global economy has brought >them together in often tense or violent ways.

It's "about foreign relations and how we can build peaceful relationships throughout the world," Zuckerberg writes. "This is important for creating the world we all want for our children, and that's what I'm thinking about these days."

AND

The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker

Zuckerberg admits that this 800-page, data-rich book from a Harvard psychologist can seem intimidating.

But the writing is actually easy to get through, and he thinks that Pinker's study of how violence has decreased over time despite being magnified by a 24-hour news cycle and social media is something that can offer a life-changing perspective.

It should be noted that Bill Gates also considers this one of the most important books he's ever read.

They read midwit trash like anyone on the street, they have a whig view of history and a faith that capitalism is decreasing violence. All of this is backed up with a vaguely evopsych idea of what humans want and how they function. Zuckerberg et al are true believers in this rot.

There is no evil plan, they are simply breathtakingly naive politically and think they have a right to influence the world because they have the resources to do it. Of course, they will necessarily make things worse because they have the political awareness of comp sci undergrads with a minor in psychology.

>>12622664
That's probably what most people with philosophy degrees did. There's only one group that still bothers to actually read Critique of Pure Reason: the strange autodidacts who, in academia or not, still feel inexplicably compelled to engage with great thinkers on their level.

What books will help me get over nihilism?

>>12480029
>>12480014
>>12480545

Can you please stop with shilling Maas, Masters of Rome, and that god-fucking-awful list?

>>12454879
>>12454990

Capitalism and neoliberalism have commodified de-alienating yourself. None of this will work because it's the same way everyone "connects", it's connection as something you consume. Buying things and trying the same vague mysticism as Julia Roberts in that movie is, like >>12455026 points out, peak bugman.


You have to escape your context. Try going to clubs and meetups for things you wouldn't ordinarily care about, learn new skills your friends and family wouldn't encourage you to do. Get recommendations from people you meet doing that for other things to do. Avoid anything that seems to be consumptive and involves little actual skill.

For instance merely "spending time in nature" - fuck that, learn fishing, hunting, birdwatching, astronomy, join a running club, grow your own food in a community garden. You'll fix the community problem and the alienation problem if you get into something that takes skill and engagement because you have to talk to other practitioners to do it. Buying two bowls of petunias and remembering to water them won't fix shit.

Best of luck anon.

>>12452174
OP... OP... you didn't think things were this bad, did you? You didn't think there were this many newfags, that the board is now almost entirely composed of goddamn newfags? I didn't think it was this bad, either. I think it is time we make haste hence, my friend.

You all will come up with any reason not to read a book. Oh it’s by a black person! Oh it’s by a woman! Oh the author was a faggot! Yes, faggots and minorities and women are generally worse writers, but not across the board. Oh you can’t read Dostoevsky cause his prose is mediocre! Shove it up your fucking ass! Oh you can’t read Nabokov because he was a prosefag with no substance! I hope you guys get your cocks chopped off! Oh I can’t read books in translation! You need to be euthanized. You pretend like you have high standards and will only read the best of the best, but really you’re exclusionary because YOU DONT FUCKING WANT TO READ! This is why there are constant “what are the 5 best books of all time” threads and people shit on other people’s choices. It’s not because you care one iota about quality. You haven’t even read 99% of the books you criticize. If someone else’s taste doesn’t perfectly match yours, you get all fagged up because that brings up the possibility that there is a good book that you haven’t read! Now for a normal non-fag this should make them happy that there are great books they can still read for the first time. But no, you nogs chimp out like someone just stole your PlayStation 2. That’s it, I hate you and you’re all little bitchs.