/lit/ - Literature

I’d say wagies seem so sickened by death in the same way they are sickened by suffering. Most neets at one point or another we’re miserable, still tied to societal expectations and feeling like a failure. Neets go through the infinite resignation, consign themselves to their worst fears, embrace their negative emotions and suffering, and come to know these things well. The neet realises they are not only inevitable, but not always negative, suffering for the neet can either be a valuable experience or a lesson learned, that some types of suffering simply do not upset him anymore. The wagie has a million material and human distractions to avoid confronting anything negative, and so that’s what they do. Inevitably they’ll suffer, but will scrape and scramble to escape a pit of despair, it always washes over quickly or is pushed to the back of their mind. They never get a full experience of life because of this, and so are always chasing the next pleasure, and will happily accept most of their earthly life being eaten away by work for this. A neet realises after introspection this is nonsensical, and any suffering they endure because they don’t have a job is surely worth it. The wagie is like a suckling baby, it does not want to think about anything negative, it dares not go to that place. This engenders their strange “I always have to have a task” insect mind, which they will never break out of. They will never look at the birds flying to roost at sunset and sense any deep meaning, and if by chance they did, they would almost certainly try and translate such a thing into words, or take a picture, or any other conversion of pure experience into a controlled understandable commodity they can find, and thus true life eludes them always. Sad.

The Classics of Western Spirituality is what a professor recc'd to me. It has a really comprehensive introduction that lays out the context, authorship, and influences on the text. Plus, it's got a pretty handsome cover.