/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11069733]

How do you deal with 90% of people being plebs who have nothing interesting to say? Call me an autist, but most normies are fucking brain dead and I can’t relate to them. Even when I tried to get into sports I was miles ahead of people in terms of my knowledge of statistics and sports history. I hate this shit. I feel like I put a lot of effort to be interesting and well rounded but the more I learn the more alienated I feel.

[Anonymous No.11069744]

Dab on 'em

[you're a prick No.11069748]

^^^^^^^^^^

[Anonymous No.11069754]

>>11069733
This attitude is only making you miserable. Try thinking "well, that's up to them".

Alternatively, revel in the absurdity, like this guy >>11069744

[Anonymous No.11069757]

>>11069733
>nothing interesting to say
>my knowledge of statistics and sports history
Maybe you are the problem

[Anonymous No.11069764]

>>11069733
There's nothing you can do except hope and wait for the rapture. People are more interesting than you give them credit for though, op, in the literary sense. Most lives have truly literary moments, however, that you will be able to access or understand other's experiences is in no way guaranteed, especially in this most postmodern sea of shit that we call contemporary culture. Most people, while they were never truly interesting or creative to begin with, are yielding what little individuality they have to the the endless stream of little identity boxes, what you could call echo chambers. You and I are no better in this aspect. We're just more self aware.

[Anonymous No.11069770]

>>11069754
>This attitude is only making you miserable. Try thinking "well, that's up to them".
>unironically believing in an individualist approach to culture

[Anonymous No.11069773]

>>11069757
>ayo the [insert team name] are fire
>hit them with an empirical analysis on why they’re actually not good
>the sports discussion ends and they start talking about dogs or some shit.

This happens every time.

[Anonymous No.11069779]

You need to humble yourself by reading the following folks:
Plato
Montaigne (who specifically hates intellectualism and talks of reading the ancients to humble oneself)
Shakespeare
Schopenhauer

>knowledge of statistics and sports history
Dude, you sound insufferable. Statistics are Joe Rogan-tier I-have-no-brain-so-I-must-settle shit. Anyone worth his weight in BRAIN MATTER will set statistics aside because the correlation-doesn't-equal-causation proves quickly and consistently that 99% of statistics is about trying to prove someone's cause. Instead of fully explaining why statistics is bad, I'll point you towards the beginning chapters of Weininger's Sex and Character and all of Gravity's Rainbow. And REALLY, dude? Your knowledge of sports history? Just in case this isn't bait and you're actually this un-self-aware you could also benefit from lifting, not ingesting any type of drug for a while, especially weed, going outside, and actually reading the classics, at least for a while, and at least until the point where you might toss around the conspiracy theory that maybe the normies have it right, because inside they're not letting you know that they know more than you, where in fact they're probably tossing around all these ideas (without the pretentiousness of half-digested bogged-down ideas in their mind that they got from half-lazily reading some shitty literature, and thus semi-fully developed ideas of OWN) on the way over to their normie girlfriend's house where they then proceed to arrive, eat, relax, and wait for the next day to start.

[Anonymous No.11069787]

>>11069770
>90% of people aren't cultured
>I am cultured
LOL, you are definitely the problem here OP

[Anonymous No.11069789]

>>11069744
BASED

[Anonymous No.11069791]

>>11069779
you're worse than op, and your normie apologetics reveal your lack of understanding of what being an normie actually entails

[Anonymous No.11069795]

>not even trying to link the thread to literature

Fuck off to /r9k/ you autist.

[Anonymous No.11069799]

>>11069787
I'm not op though. I find both your lameduck liberal individualist attitude and his pseudo snobbery equally insufferable. This is /lit/, we're not supposed to agree on anything.

[Anonymous No.11069807]

>>11069799
>letting other people live as they will is "lameduck liberal individualist attitude"
You and OP have a lot of growing up to do

[Anonymous No.11069808]

Why do you think Bayern lost to Real a few days back?

[Anonymous No.11069809]

>>11069791
fair enough--seeing the good in people is my weak point. But I did specifically say that I advised OP to at least get to that point where he might consider that notion, at least to balance himself out from where he is now. What he needs above all is to realize that people say smart things all the time, if he wasn't so damned jaded.

[Anonymous No.11069810]

>>11069773
>>hit them with an empirical analysis on why they’re actually not good
Shit nigga, this is like some Adrian Mole type delusion. Sport isn't about tedious analysis and stats. It's about finishing above Arsenal

[Anonymous No.11069815]

>>11069733
Try 99.999%.

I've come to terms with the fact that I'm one of the extremely rare people with a soul in a sea of billions. I could be likened to a player character in the deserted world of an old online game nobody plays anymore. My calculations indicate that there are precisely 149 real human beings left in this world, and as it's very unlikely any of them besides me are in this thread, I anticipate that I will be mocked for this post, as you empty vessels lack the appropriate algorithms to process the truth of my statements.

[Anonymous No.11069817]

>>11069773
You misunderstand the point of socializing. Most people do it to relax and bond, and you don't do that via intellectual discussion.
Try to establish a shared reality between you and the other person.
People don't remember conversations, they remember how you made them feel.

[Anonymous No.11069819]

>>11069807
hurrr look at me I'm so grown up posting on a Cambodian Cartoon Porn forum. Reddit is that way, don't let the door hit you on the way out.

[Anonymous No.11069821]

>>11069815
6/10 satire bro. Would rise in points exponentially if it had some kind of flare. As it stands: generic. Highlight of the post is your style in the last couple of clauses. Focus on that more.

[Anonymous No.11069822]

>>11069733
Maybe stop trying to intellectualise every chat you have with people? sometimes its nice to just mindlessly talk about stupid shit like the weather or netflix. I'd have scoffed at such a sentiment a few years ago, but Iv'e mellowed out a bit since then.

[Anonymous No.11069823]

>>11069810
My analysis is based on the basic statistics charts they have on espn.com. If you call yourself a fan of basketball or football and you don’t read stats, I don’t know what you’re doing with your life.

[Anonymous No.11069824]

>>11069819
Sorry I hurt your feelies

[Anonymous No.11069825]

>>11069807
>letting other people live as they will is "lameduck liberal individualist attitude"
and btw yes that is literally the case

[Anonymous No.11069828]

i find everyone interesting

[Anonymous No.11069830]

>>11069810
This I can't stand autists who just spout all these useless numbers.

[Anonymous No.11069833]

>>11069823
Are you OP? answer >>11069808

[Anonymous No.11069834]

>>11069824
You should be I'm very upset, a stranger online told me to grow up. How will I ever recover.

[Anonymous No.11069835]

>>11069828
In a way, so do I. Listening to some bimbo talk about the stupid shit she does or a having a conversation with a stoned nog is hilarious. What I’m trying to say is that its not fulfilling in any way.

[Anonymous No.11069838]

I just find it hard to find things to talk about with people.

What do you talk to people about if you don't have a life (and thus no stories to tell ect) and don't really engage with pop culture?

[Anonymous No.11069839]

>>11069733
You'll eventually learn that this is a problem of being out of place in your social class.

This is partly because you have a taste for luxuries you can't really afford (like art) and partly because you are biologically more similar to old professional bourgeois families, where selective breeding has produced highly literate people.

"Professional" here is used in an extremely specific sense: jobs that require years of schooling and that have been around for hundreds of years.

STEM tends to attract people from families without many generations of professional selection at work. In short, they're not thoroughbreds.

"Thoroughbred" professional families are most common in the oldest cities of West and Central Europe and in the oldest cities of New England.

Recommended reading:
Distinction by Pierre Bourdieu
A Farewell to Alms by Gregory Clark
There are redder pills out there, but start with those.

[Anonymous No.11069842]

>>11069808
No fair soccer has no important stats like baseball football or basketball.

[Anonymous No.11069844]

>>11069823
>My analysis is based on the basic statistics charts they have on espn.com
Who the fuck cares about that shit? Sport is entertainment. It's a social thing for people to bond over. Have a few beers and watch the game. You're not supposed to start doing statistics, you're supposed to be enjoying yourself with your bros.

[Anonymous No.11069845]

>>11069744
Ayyy

[Anonymous No.11069846]

>>11069733

You...avoid talking to them?

[Anonymous No.11069851]

>>11069733
Same. I went from not understanding sports to being able to predict plays two plays ahead of time, i would call backscreens and picks 30 seconds before they’d happen when we’d watch ncaa tourney in school and could predict zone vs double cover against certain offenses before it would even show up, with no experience and could easily tell which defender failed their assignment, could tell you who was obviously the most efficient ball handler, who was obviously being underused by coaches. such pleb faggotry, sports are latrine consciousness inducing nonsense

normalfags don’t have souls anon, i try to tell people this. they are just puppet golems for demonic and elemental forces. treat them how you would a kitten or a butterfly, gently, without any kind of importance placed on their desires or fate. just get out of the interaction as fast as possible. nothing is gained from engaging ever. they’re not human

[Anonymous No.11069852]

>>11069844
>enjoying yourself with your bros.
lmfao, what is this? from what backwater did this sub-70 IQ hick just arrive?

[Anonymous No.11069855]

>>11069844
Why do read the classics and the western canon anon? Why don’t you read romance novels or just not read at all? I don’t half ass my hobbies.

[Anonymous No.11069858]

>>11069842
I actually did my Bachelor thesis on analysing soccer statistics. About 80% of the variance of transfer prices of soccer players can be explained by their actions on the field and by their club during the last season before the transfer.
With your American know-it-all attitude you would be fucking blown out of the water by German know-it-all soccer fans who actually know their shit.

[Anonymous No.11069863]

>>11069851
>I went from not understanding sports to being able to predict plays two plays ahead of time
Why aren't you a sports betting trillionaire yet?

[Anonymous No.11069865]

>>11069855
>>11069852
>not understanding what sport is all about
Pic very related

[Anonymous No.11069866]

>>11069733
Try to understand them as they understand themselves. You'd be amazed in the amount of variance that occurs in day to day life, just asking about it can be truly fascinating.

[Anonymous No.11069879]

>>11069838
not only act interested with people, but actually be interested by people... it'll show. LOVE people. You'd be surprised how much people want to talk to you, to the point where you ask yourself, "Holy fuck, are they okay with going on like this? Oh, they are? Okay.. I'll listen!"

[Anonymous No.11069882]

>>11069733
>I was miles ahead of people in terms of my knowledge of statistics and sports history

you are an autist, OP
try climbing down from your high horse of pseudo-superiority and you won't have such an issue

[Anonymous No.11069883]

>>11069866
I just laugh at all the dumb shit they say. It’s the only reason I haven’t ended my life. Normies are truly walking memes.

[Anonymous No.11069885]

>>11069865
I'm sorry, I'm simply too intelligent for your boorish amusements.

[Anonymous No.11069888]

>>11069744
>>11069789

[Anonymous No.11069889]

>>11069882
>”lol bro u care about stuff? What are you an autist?”

[Anonymous No.11069898]

>>11069882
Sorry, but my superiority has no prefixes. I simply am better than you.

[Anonymous No.11069903]

>>11069842
>>11069858
Here is the correct angle to tackle the question btw: because of the 50+1 rule the Bundesliga doesn't have the financial power Spanish and clubs have. So, eventhough Bayern Munich is one of the best and most valuable clubs (and brand) in the world, it is not surprising that they lost. They also have an obvious problem finding adequate replacements for their wingers Robben and Ribery due to the recently inflated transfer prices and salaries for top players. Paying like other top clubs does not fit their philosophy, which is in line with other German clubs. It is interesting to see the austerity mind of the Germans even in professional soccer. You can see that is true since Robben did not participate in the match and Bayern had no replacement for him. Who knows, if they will even find a replacement until the next season!

Here is the brainlet angle to tackle the question: Not fair! Soccer has no important stats!

[Anonymous No.11069904]

>>11069744
What if they dab back?

[Anonymous No.11069911]

>>11069885
>I have a problem. I am an intellectual, but at the same time I am not very clever.

[Anonymous No.11069922]

>>11069815
>>11069821
Absolutely disagree. I find the earlier sentences much more captivating. As for improvements, I'd urge anon to consider adding a passage in which the narrator does his best to explain what about him makes him the soulful one.
6/10 is fair for the amount of work he shows, though

[Anonymous No.11069923]

>>11069911
You don't need to use greentext when describing yourself.

[Anonymous No.11069924]

>pseuds who think theyre better than everyone cause theyve read a few books
>pseudo who think they’re better than pseudo who’ve read a few books because they don’t think they’re better than everyone

[Anonymous No.11069932]

>>11069889
>caring about stuff
>shoving your opinion and baseless sense of superiority in peoples faces only to be surprised when no gives a shit and just wants to relax over a beer

pick one, autismos

[Anonymous No.11069936]

>>11069815
7/10, while you definitely sounded the part with your choice of words, the actual carrying out of sounding like one of the rare people aforementioned needs a bit of work. You phrase sentences unnaturally.

[Anonymous No.11069937]

>>11069733
statsfags are unironically the most boring fucking people on earth desu

[Anonymous No.11069942]

>>11069936
>You phrase sentences unnaturally.
It seems that way to you because you're an empty vessel

[Anonymous No.11069951]

>>11069889
>caring about stuff
>shoving your opinion and baseless sense of superiority in peoples faces only to be surprised when no gives a shit and just wants to relax over a beer

pick one, autismos
it's a sign of how far modern society has failed if you fucks think you're special for not having a brain that can communicate with other people easily

[Anonymous No.11069958]

>>11069932
There’s no way of complaining about being alienated from your peers without coming off as a fat pseud, but my criticisms stand.
>>11069937
Not even a statsfag, but how do you a conversation about sports without referencing statistics?

[Anonymous No.11069971]

>>11069958
>how do you a conversation about sports without referencing statistics?
-> >>11069903

[Anonymous No.11069974]

>>11069951
>by pretending not to be smart, I can show all these /lit/ pseuds how smart I am.

[Anonymous No.11069985]

>>11069733
U will figure it out when u get humbled. Get a job or something

[Anonymous No.11069989]

>>11069924
psueds killing pseuds out here lol

[Anonymous No.11069991]

>>11069985
>get humbled
Difficult when you're literally the most intelligant human being in history.

[Anonymous No.11069992]

>>11069923
>no, u

[Anonymous No.11069993]

>>11069924
>pseudo who think they’re better than pseudo who’ve read a few books because they don’t think they’re better than everyone

These people actually are better than the ones first mentioned.

[Anonymous No.11069994]

>>11069942
But truly what is empty and what is full? Is the definition of fulfillment and emptiness up to others' digression or is it because someone shoved a thesaurus and a copy of "How to Win Friends and Influence People" up their ass?

[Anonymous No.11069997]

>>11069991
In your limited field of experience yes, sure.

[Anonymous No.11069998]

>>11069992
Yes, you.

[Anonymous No.11070002]

>>11069994
The Selfish Gene

[Anonymous No.11070005]

>>11069997
Intelligence has no field. I have an IQ of 247. I could master whatever subject you required years to barely understand in less than a day.

[Anonymous No.11070012]

>>11070002
go back to /pol/

[Anonymous No.11070021]

Normies are fun to be around learn how to shut off your autism once and a while

[Anonymous No.11070023]

>>11070012
/pol/ hates Richard Dawkins

[Anonymous No.11070032]

>>11069733
the real red pill is that people are only interested in what other people do (gossip) but mainly themselves

[Anonymous No.11070038]

>>11069942
Still pretty bad, desu.

[Anonymous No.11070064]

>>11070005
pretty weak bait, should have gone for something more realistic

[Anonymous No.11070079]

>>11070032
This is true. No wonder people here spend so much time cultivating 'interesting capital', so they can enter into the normie conversation economy and feel they have some value. No other reason to get pissed off at plebs for not understanding. A selfless person would educate.

[Anonymous No.11070085]

>>11069808
that real madrid is the luckiest team ever (on top of being disgustingly good).

[Anonymous No.11070136]

>>11069733
So don't talk to them? What's the issue? Here, I'll let you in on a little secret. You will never find somebody to relate to because anybody that you think is on the same "intellectual level" as you will intimidate you, in your mind the worst thing that can happen is having others view you the same way that you view normies. Change your attitude or you will forever be a pretentious dickhead

[Anonymous No.11070179]

>>11069733
>Even when I tried to get into sports I was miles ahead of people in terms of my knowledge of statistics and sports history.
Nobody watches sports for statistics and sports history, they watch sports to follow teams and players they like and to have comraderie and banter with people that like or dislike those sports/players. This is like if someone tried to share your interest in literature by memorizing when the printing press was invented and when certain publishing companies were founded.

[Anonymous No.11070186]

>>11070032
Thanks highschool girl

[Anonymous No.11070187]

I usually assume people at least have something to say. People usually have some sliver of everyday wisdom that is rarely uttered.

[Anonymous No.11070192]

>>11069733
Why does it matter? Why do you need confirmation?

[Anonymous No.11070211]

>>11069863
I got bored and pro sports is rigged, so inexplicable stuff like Lynch being ignored on a goal line play or ignoring a flagrant face mask or horse-collar tackle on Brady is ignored. Its not worth it, look at who owns the teams, all Oil and Real Estate Germanics and Jews. Corrupt old boy and mafia networks. The entire industry reeks of rigging. But I can easily predict what plays a team is going to run and what a player will do by reading their body language, can even tell when a pass is going to get deflected as its being thrown by looking at body positioning. Just got incredibly bored with College Football and NBA

[Anonymous No.11070228]

>>11070211
you can not only bet on win-draw-loss but also on very specific things like who will make the next goal, which teamwill ahve more passes within the next 5 minutes, how many corners a team will have and stuff like that

[Anonymous No.11070230]

>>11069815
>When one of the 99.99% becomes self aware

[Anonymous No.11070238]

>>11070211
If this is true start betting, become a millionaire and pay people to be your friends.

[Anonymous No.11070244]

>>11069815

[Anonymous No.11070252]

>>11070228
lazy and never even thought about it
>>11070238
too sleazy, i'm good at playing with numbers too, could have made money other unsavory ways. Prefer lawyering. also bookies are no-go

[Anonymous No.11070265]

>>11069733
I used to feel like this, then I got over it when I realized that most people are my superior in ways other than reading and the world was not made to entertain me.

[Anonymous No.11070266]

>>11070252
>too lazy to use my tortune-telling abilities to become an instant billionaire
>I prefer wagecuck as a lawyer the whole week

[Anonymous No.11070295]

>>11070252
Okay. Give me your money, tell me what to bet on and I’ll be your friend for a small percentage of your winnings

[Anonymous No.11070299]

>omg i'm like so special and stuff

[Anonymous No.11070313]

>>11070192
Because I’m tired of going to parties where I talk to people for 1 hour and then feel like leaving.

[Anonymous No.11070330]

>>11070265
normies doesn’t excel at anything. If they did, they wouldn’t be normies

[Anonymous No.11070340]

>DUDE I'M SO MUCH SMARTER THAN EVERYONE ELSE BECAUSE I READ THE CLASSICS AND DON'T WATCH SPORTS

how's highschool goin'

[Anonymous No.11070356]

>Intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humour

[Anonymous No.11070366]

>>11069744
an absolutely litty post

[Anonymous No.11070404]

I've gotten precisely 24 (You)s in this thread so far.

[Anonymous No.11070406]

>>11069733
>implying you aren't part of the 90%

[Anonymous No.11070430]

You simply can't be categorised as a complete human being unless your IQ is above AT LEAST 150. Sentience isn't binary, there are degrees.

[Anonymous No.11070485]

>>11070186
you can have a long and "meaningful" conversation with normies by simply feigning interest in whatever meaningles personal drama they're "suffering" through

[Anonymous No.11070487]

>>11069815
3/10
Seriously implying one of the few "real" human beings would blabber on in technical autist speak

[Anonymous No.11070502]

>>11069744
fpbp

[Anonymous No.11070554]

>>11069885
Is it fun to larp as an intellectual? I've considered doing it before but I've never been up my own ass enough to commit

[Anonymous No.11070557]

Thinking is abnormal

Most normies learn a few facts about their hobbies through osmosis, an easy process for them, because that sort of "learning" is the reverse of a coin whose obverse is the natural warmth of the social protoplasmic medium that all normies love to be immersed in

Actually thinking, really thinking about things and attempting to discern facts and factual relations and create architectonics that link up with other architectonics, until you realise that you are a distinct person who can never be immersed in any medium or reduced to the bacchic disindividuation state natural to all normies, is both rare and painful

Most people you see are like those huskies who can say "I want food now," because they learned how to groan in acceptable patterns from their masters. That's a normie. A normie is basically a dog but much worse because not loveable at all. A normie doesn't think, it just groans in patterns, and once in a while someone who is actually is capable of thinking comes long and orders the patterns a little better, or gives the patterns some names and labels, and the normies learn to groan a faded, routinised form of the thinking person's original rationale for this ordering, and then the normies think they are thinking too because they are in some sense participating in intellectual order and not in purely affective chaos. But normies are never thinking and you should never mistake what they do for thinking. With five or six people of unswerving obedience, and thirty minutes of fore-planning, I could start some kind of massive revolution right now just by manipulating hindbrain-driven pleb normies into doing whatever I want, by starting a rumor or saying some celebrity wore a hat promoting the course of action I am also promoting and having the other five or six people confirm it so that the normie thinks that it's approved group consensus and realigns his entire worldview to do whatever I tell him to do because I have the hot insider line to celebrity hat ideology.

[Anonymous No.11070567]

>>11070557
>normies are parrots
Gotcha.

[Anonymous No.11070572]

>>11070330
what is a normie to you

[Anonymous No.11070576]

>>11070572
You are.

[Anonymous No.11070591]

>>11070554
Silence, worm. Do not address your betters unless requested.

[Anonymous No.11070610]

>>11069744
*sucks teeth* you aight white boy

[Anonymous No.11070701]

>>11069744>>11070610
he cute but autistic af

[Anonymous No.11070723]

>>11069733
I wrote about this once, not necessarily about most people being plebs, but how there was nobody to challenge anything I had to say about anything beyond their very limited domains of interest, and so if I wanted to discuss something like free will, I could only talk and they could only listen, so my ideas remained totally unrefined by criticism. Basically their lack of interest is not harmful only to themselves but to anybody who wants to even attempt to move beyond the banal even slightly, it is harmful for society as a whole for everybody to be so "braindead".

[Anonymous No.11070733]

>>11069733
Don't talk to people.

[Anonymous No.11070779]

>>11070723
this but unironically

[Anonymous No.11070787]

>>11070723
spicy take.

[Anonymous No.11070790]

>>11069733
i guarantee you have nothing interesting to say either