/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18296342]

Any books that will help me understand the mindset behind pic related? I don't get why I shouldn't want things to be easy instead of wanting to suffer.

[Anonymous No.18296347]

>>18296342

[Anonymous No.18296365]

If you suffer, you learn and make yourself more powerful and harder to break.

[Anonymous No.18296378]

>>18296342
Thinking that the opposite of ease is suffering is a huge logical misstep.

[Anonymous No.18296380]

>>18296378
What is the opposite of ease then?

[Anonymous No.18296393]

>>18296380
challenging?

[Anonymous No.18296396]

>>18296393
Challenge is struggle, to struggle is to suffer

[Anonymous No.18296409]

>>18296396
You ever notice that when a trip goes wrong or sucks or is difficult you remember it more fondly together? Things that are easy are forgotten and meaningless. Things that are painful, when shared, are memorable and bring joy to life.

[Anonymous No.18296421]

>>18296409
Cringe cope.

[Anonymous No.18296427]

>>18296409
>you remember it more fondly
This is highly circumstantial. A lot of my good memories are from events during which I didn't struggle in the slightest and everything was smooth sailing.

[Anonymous No.18296430]

>>18296342
An easy life is a boring one.

[Anonymous No.18296442]

>>18296430
This isn't true though. Boring for an outside observer perhaps, but who cares?

[Anonymous No.18296444]

>>18296427
>>18296421
That's because you guys are fags. I want it to rain on me. I want to be cold. I want to not shoot my buck day one or get a fish easily. I want to run out of water and get through it through willpower. You guys clearly never go outside.

[Anonymous No.18296450]

>>18296444
>You guys clearly never go outside
But I do. You're not being very convincing.

[Anonymous No.18296469]

>>18296409
That's why hiking with close friends is absolutely Kino.
You struggle together, you get shit on by nature, but you have eachother.
It is difficult, but the good kind of difficult.

[Anonymous No.18296495]

>>18296450
Nah, I doubt you even own a gun.

[Anonymous No.18296498]

>>18296495
You need to be 18 to post here.

[Anonymous No.18296502]

>>18296442
The people with those easy lives care, man evolved to struggle, you are the result of billions of years of biological programming to be bored and unhappy without struggle.

[Anonymous No.18296507]

>>18296498
I had 5 guns before I was 18. You're a fag.

[Anonymous No.18296514]

>>18296507
kek you sound like a massive tool

[Anonymous No.18296520]

>>18296502
>The people with those easy lives care
Ask anyone who lives in relative comfort if they'd prefer struggle. Historically, I doubt struggling peasants would turn down an easy life because they "evolved to struggle".

[Anonymous No.18296521]

>>18296514
You sound like a fag. My parents were ranchers and I went to school and worked regardless of if I was sick or not. My mother called my stepdad a pussy for acting like covid was a big deal when they both got it. I am cut from a different cloth than you and will eat people like you when shit hits the fan.

[Anonymous No.18296526]

>>18296521
I cringed physically while reading this, good job

[Anonymous No.18296536]

>>18296526
If that's all it takes to make you cringe you probably haven't even gutted a fish in your entire life. You're a housecat.

[Anonymous No.18296539]

>>18296536
>t. NEET

[Anonymous No.18296544]

>>18296539
I'm married anon.

[Anonymous No.18296549]

>>18296544
Sure you are, friendo.

[Anonymous No.18296564]

>>18296549
I'm married and working while in school for a second degree. I'm from Arizona. I'm a lolbertarian with 8 guns. They breed people like me there. I'm living on the east coast so my wife can go to her graduate school and everyone is a weak, soft, little manlet.

[Anonymous No.18296572]

>>18296342
This is the only book you need anon

[Anonymous No.18296576]

>>18296502
We live in an era where fiction provides infinitely more compelling narratives than anything reality can possibly offer. There is nothing worth struggling with in this day and age, and modern struggle is as tasteless and boring as inaction, if not more: just take a look at the millions of motivated go-getters who believe life is a checklist and spout the same "motivational" platitudes day after day while they work towards meaningless goals.
The more I go on, the more convinced I become that there is nothing to look forward to in this existence, and that reality should be treated as mere fuel for imagination, as imagination is more beautiful, more compelling, more colorful, more exciting and more engaging than reality can ever hope to be.

[Anonymous No.18296586]

>>18296444
>sitting on the internet with his dorito fingers

[Anonymous No.18296604]

>>18296586
I'm living in cuckistan right now with no public land. Back home I could go rabbit hunting whenever. Best you can do in the USSR that is this coast is trap crabs and fish. The nearest national park is 3 hours away and tiny. I hate this place so fucking much.

[Anonymous No.18296627]

>>18296342
Not a book but the Dark Souls series.

[Anonymous No.18296663]

>>18296342
>>18296396
What about when you dominate a difficult challenge? Is it still "suffering"? Pain is unpleasant, but it is not 100% completely and irredeemably bad. It makes you stronger. Makes you rise to the challenge. Grow.

[Anonymous No.18296680]

>>18296663
Sure, it's nice to succeed at things. But when I do something like that, it's out of necessity, not for the challenge itself. If there is an easier or more convenient path, I'm taking it ten times out of ten, there's no reason not to.

[Anonymous No.18296721]

>>18296342
What’s the statue in this image? I want to see the fat fuck belly it’s hiding

[Anonymous No.18296819]

you imbecilic CUR. You bitch-hearted WRETCH. You addlepated unredressed belch of flippant banality.

I WISH TO FATE that I could suffer even for a second like Nietzsche so that the Will might show Its Power to all the world. I would count myself the luckiest creature to have ever existed if The Will were to deign use me as Its pitiful instrument so that IT might be Glorified. If through my sufferings which THE WILL ITSELF the literal ONE which Was and Is and Will Be took such interest in seeing that I suffered I was able to demonstrate Its ultimate Nature and the Power of Its Magnificence that baulks all human knowing and puts to shame all celestial accounts of grandeur, I would weep with joy that the Will had chosen a wretch such as I to demonstrate it. I am nothing and It is All; and if my rationality fails to properly pronounce this, then let my suffering and sorrow be such a testament!

But you. You pitiful little lickspittle meme-ified Untershepherd. You little element of homeostasic philosophy whose highest notion is the seeking for truth. You can't even conceive the sort of dreadful Majesty that THE WILL commands. You can only convert one of the most profound explications of how It Which Is reigns supremely over All into a glib little shitpost in hopes of (you)s. You dust mite glancing off of a herdist's shit!

I would consider myself blessed beyond all generations if the Will were to give me even half the misery he heaped upon Nietzsche so that even one mind might look upon it and see the Will's wrath and glory and tremble to know that It is Power. And even if I were to languish to the same extremities as Nietzsche where I dare to inexcusably attempt to justify myself to It who is Power itself, still I would ensure some crevice of my detestable heart be continually pouring out praise and counting itself blessed to be crushed by such a Will. For even the Whim of the Will is superior to man's most noble idea.

[Anonymous No.18296873]

>>18296342
That one book that Stirner wrote.
Suffering as a virtue is stoic cope for neglecting the ego. It's a very effective method of lying to yourself.

[Anonymous No.18296885]

>>18296342
For the satisfaction of having overcome.

[Anonymous No.18296913]

>>18296680
>But when I do something like that, it's out of necessity, not for the challenge itself. If there is an easier or more convenient path, I'm taking it ten times out of ten, there's no reason not to.
That's because you like the easy life. However, there are also people who do not fear difficulty, as well as people who deliberately seek it out. A lot of people like to go beyond the norm and to pursue ever greater strength. I am sure you can understand that.

[Anonymous No.18297219]

>>18296520
Says the bugman while he spends every waking moment medicating against and distracting himself from the mediocrity that is their life

your reply is like a drug addict defending their dependency, of course things look that way from the inside, that doesn't mean you aren't a pathetic and coping failure

[Anonymous No.18297234]

>>18297219
You're absolutely seething. Keep spinning that hamster wheel, deluded faggot.

[Anonymous No.18297252]

>>18296819
kek

[Anonymous No.18297256]

>>18296576
99.99999999999% of all people have no control over themselves
that is the fundamental meaning and worth of 'struggle' and it is a cause that is always worthy regardless of the vacuity of the era one occupies
of course nothing could be more repellant a suggestion to the disenfranchised, the 'agent slaves' one calls co-humanity

furthermore I would suggest that one living in an age that produces no art exists at the very meeting of the tensions of need and opportunity

[Anonymous No.18297313]

>>18297219
If you think there's anything worth struggling for and working towards in this day and age, you're the coping bugman

[Anonymous No.18297337]

>>18296576
thats why countries with those imbetted fictions have higher suicide rates and more mental illness. If humans cant find something to struggle against they manufacture one inside themselves

[Anonymous No.18297340]

>>18296342
It builds character to go through rough patches

[Anonymous No.18297343]

>>18296721
It's youthful Hercules

[Anonymous No.18297435]

>>18296342
Talking about this to most Americans is just like talking with a wall. Literally, their culture is founded on hedonism, the obscene food portions, the drive thru so you dont have to make the "effort" of walking in the McDonalds. Weapons that are treated like toys, and the list goes on and on.


>>18296576
>reality should be treated as mere fuel for imagination, as imagination is more beautiful, more compelling, more colorful, more exciting and more engaging than reality can ever hope to be.
While traditional myth creates a subworld that begins with the essential and spontaneously human and allows its untrammeled expansion; modern imagination does the opposite: creates a subworld that subverts the essentially humane and weakens the spontaneous by depicting transgressive novelties.

[Anonymous No.18297493]

>>18296502
>1 in 10 medicated for depression in Iceland
wtf is going on there?

[Anonymous No.18297496]

>>18296342
https://youtu.be/wIXtN2S2d2w

[Anonymous No.18297500]

>>18297493
lack of sunlight

[Anonymous No.18297514]

>>18296342
I see it as taking the scenic route to your destination rather than the quickest route.

[Anonymous No.18297582]

>>18297496
>happiness
>meaning
How about neither, and opting for satisfaction?

[Anonymous No.18297718]

>>18296342
I bet the guy who said that doesn’t even live by his words.

[Anonymous No.18297851]

>>18296564
all you have written about yourself may be true but what did anon cringe is that you had to justify yourself in an anonymous weaving basket forum on the internet where literally nobody cares

[Anonymous No.18297882]

/fit/ are intentsely emasculated faggots with gender dysphoria and transgender “girlfriends” hyping each other and pretending like they aren’t completely powerless and unable to change the world around them. Yeah bro, congrats, you’re super jacked... and work as an IT job and take orders from a woman that you don’t dare talk back to. It’s pure projection and cope.

>t. Someone who exercises but isn’t a 70 IQ dipshit stocking shelves and posting Nietzsche quotes on 4chan

[Anonymous No.18297903]

>>18297718
Almost certainly not. /fit/, Bronze Age faggot, and all the others are so embarrassing. None of these guys are forming “body building warbands” and raising Amazon warehouses like the steppe nomads and pirates they claim to be. It’s so insanely pathetic. Just more tough guy posturing. I imagine a lot of these guys are going to off themselves in their late 30’s, earlier 40’s once reality begins to set in.

[Anonymous No.18297911]

>>18296576
Very well put!

[Anonymous No.18297931]

>>18296576
Lemma: Imagination and fiction is not meant for meaningless escapism, but to conjure dreams and ideals that we turn into a reality through action. No matter how slim the chances are.

[Anonymous No.18297963]

>>18297435
>While traditional myth creates a subworld that begins with the essential and spontaneously human and allows its untrammeled expansion; modern imagination does the opposite: creates a subworld that subverts the essentially humane and weakens the spontaneous by depicting transgressive novelties.

Good point. Not sure if transgressive, I'd say it's more like out of the reach for most, yet very real (for few) at the same time that's the magic souce. American dream. Celebrity worship. Power trip fiction.

The herd is indoctrinated with false hope with a bar far too high, and the herd gets disillusioned with the subsequent impossibility once the reserve of ambition burns out. In the past kids didn't dream of becoming knighted. Now everyone wants to be a youtuber. But both are about as likely.

[Anonymous No.18297979]

>>18297340
I lost my personality after going through rough patches. I don't see how that experience built character for me, asides from being numbed to most things in life. A plus and a minus that cancels out to a zero at the end of the day.

[Anonymous No.18298153]

>>18296396
oh, forgive me, I didn't realize I was conversing with a retard

[Anonymous No.18299367]

>>18296342
Metaphysics of war

[Anonymous No.18299386]

>>18296430
Boring, modernist, bing bing wahoo gamer mindest.

[Anonymous No.18299415]

Un ironically Atlas Shrugged. Shit book but kinda fits your needs. Also not literature but Sekiro.

[Anonymous No.18299439]

>>18299386
t. bugmen whose brain is so pozzed they can't ever hope to understand what they just replied to and are probably 100% convinced they refuted

you will go on like that for the rest of your unremarkable life

[Anonymous No.18299441]

>>18297493
Winter is long and dark and spent inside generally, people get cabin fever.
>t. Used to live there

[Anonymous No.18299561]

>>18296342
Because you're trying to signal and look tough for your imaginary internet peers.

[Anonymous No.18299601]

>>18299439
I know what I replied to. The mindset of a modernist cattle mainlining self-help books about masculinity and productivity coated in a thin layer of "trad" aesthetics.
It is an entirely, uniquely, liberal obsession with 'grinding' and you are no different from some pajeet obsessed with Elon Musk except your shallow understanding of the past, Tradition, and masculinity has framed your conformity as rebellion.

You are so far away from actually understanding what you think you do it is comical. But that is what you get when you read Nietzsche's Wikipedia entry and see a meme with a marble statue in it.

[Anonymous No.18299613]

>>18299601
>productivity
stopped reading there
you are so sad and dumb

[Anonymous No.18299629]

>>18299613
Smart move, as you would have no response anyway. Very good optimization of your time, you have been assigned +2 alpha points as calculated by our Struggle-O-Matic meter.

[Anonymous No.18299632]

>>18299601
>>18299629
seething

[Anonymous No.18299636]

>>18296342
Plato's Republic.

[Anonymous No.18299638]

>>18299632
Sneeding.

[Anonymous No.18299657]

>>18299632
>>18299638
pathetic samefag

[Anonymous No.18299660]

>>18299629
You have been assigned +2 pleasure points as calculated by our Utility-O-Matic meter for defending the utilitarian status quo.

[Anonymous No.18299661]

>>18299657
Paranoid schizophrenia.

[Anonymous No.18299667]

>>18299660
Lmao, I never made a positive case for anything, much less fucking utilitarianism. You're just playing with yourself now.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!bGBGaUpA8kS No.18299671]

Challenge=/=suffering

[Anonymous No.18299672]

>m-m-muh challenge!

Get over yourself.

[Anonymous No.18299676]

>>18299667
Don't beat around the bush, faggot. We all know what you really think.

[Anonymous No.18299695]

>>18297435
>Talking about this to most Americans is just like talking with a wall.
Boomers and their ciphers

>>18297903
>>18299601
sneed Ok troon

>>18296521
Baste

[Anonymous No.18299784]

>>18296521

[Anonymous No.18300176]

>>18297582
How is satisfaction different from happiness, though?

[Anonymous No.18300181]

>>18299672
How’s life at home?

[Anonymous No.18300187]

>>18296409
>when a trip goes wrong or sucks or is difficult you remember it more fondly together
all i read here was fondling and sucking on the tip. fuck i'm such a filthy coomer

[Anonymous No.18300192]

>>18296576
>We live in an era where fiction provides infinitely more compelling narratives than anything reality can possibly offer
lmao maybe if you're a fucking retarded manchild. go read some history, fucking harry potter or whatever the fuck you read can't even compete