/lit/ - Literature

Team cream bitches!! Don't even need to assemble and we winning. Peanut butter team on suicide watch

>>10701338

>Currently reading: No Exit and Three Other Plays [Act 2 Scene 2 of The Flies]
>Just finished Candide
Pic related: it's me.

>>8863551
>wasting life on philosophy thread

shitposting on an Armenian Caffeine Enthusiast board.

>You've made a way better use of your time.

First of all, authenticity isn't supposed to result in "happiness". It's about realizing your freedom, taking responsibility for your actions and not lying to yourself that there's anything out there that could relieve you of that responsibility. There's nothing nice or happy about that and there are no rewards.

As long as you consider yourself a part and product of your culture, something that is shaped by it and owes something to it, you are precisely escaping your freedom and abandoning the possibility of living an authentic life.

Of course you could argue - and I'm sure that was your point - that your very notion of what an autonomous, self-creating subjectivity should be is itself a product of a culture. That seems like a reasonable perspective, but I think someone like Sartre would say that it is just an easy excuse. In fact, you are not a product of anything other than your choices. To focus on some external or unconscious mechanisms molding you into something is to deny that you are free at any moment to act and think in the way that would be contrary to the supposed influence of those mechanisms.

I believe this is roughly the existentialist way of thinking. It might be wrong, but if it is, it means that there's no point in seeking "authenticity" and the very concept should be abandoned.

>>8833347
Nausea was Beckett, you cuck.

>>8438831
>taking pics with a book

why are girls such attention whores?

>>8361729
I see this is your first night on /lit/; welcome, newfriend.

Better than sucking down high fructose media like click bait//FB/Twitter/Fox News/CNN/Latest $100m+ comic book movie.