Guys, intellectually I'm all spooked out. I can't stand philosophy because of all the unfalsifiable garbage...

Guys, intellectually I'm all spooked out. I can't stand philosophy because of all the unfalsifiable garbage. Many fields like economics etc are just applied common sense and stamp collecting. I see novels as nothing but entertainment despite pretentious people claiming life / philosophical insights and tonnes of people will consider you a disgusting plebeian if you don't initially read shitloads of boring as fuck canon novels.

I think I am painfully adapting to the idea of the Internet age / information overload by abandoning any pretension that I can be an all rounder or even dilettante in everything. There are ten trillion books called "Introduction to [broad and important field]", even if you only have one of each field.

History is similar to novels. Shitloads of reading along with a shitload pretension thrown on top telling you that you truly cannot no nuthin unless you have an in depth understanding of the Greeks / Romans / Christianity / USA / WW1 / WW2 / financial systems / or shitloads of other topics I can't stand it. And then there's current events. I don't care about climate change, outer space, inequality, China, the EU, applied psychology, the education system, diversity, Russia, South America, refugees, nutrition, mental health, and more. Admitting just one of these would make me an iredeemable idiot, no doubt.

Has anyone else had similar thoughts? The spooks are powerful and must be removed but their removal leaves your mind in a promordial state that is more susceptible to spooks than before.

I go to the city centre and see people shopping and the streets are busy, which is comforting compared to when they're empty, but walking through then brings no epiphanies.

I am so past watching movies or tv shows, even ones that pander to "edgy" young males. I just about read books but only because society tells me I should, though I don't derive much enjoyment

And obviously I have an existential crisis but /lit/ is fucking pathetic in demanding that anyone who has one should immediately "grow up" and become a monotheist and wagecuck. I fucking hate wagecucking. Seeing attractive young people is humiliating. I tell myself every day that I'll soon work intensely on one thing but I can't bear to do this. If you're really good at one thing then there are people lining up to call you a tard for not watching opera or being able to run a marathon or whatever shit. So I do nothing.

Every "thinker" is at their core an utter fucking fraud. Nietzche is a Tony Robbins tier Rorschach test. Science and mathematics provide non trivial insights but only in ultra specialised ways that probably require autism to appreciate. I listen to In Our Time podcasts and Bret Easton Ellis podcasts and I think at heart everyone cares about nothing more than social drama.

Apart from money, health, and time, there are very few non trivial concept.

t. neet

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This is why you become a lawyer and never look back.

t. blogposting NEET

All you need to do is invest in Eastern Poland

I love this pasta it really rustles /lit/ jimmies.

Intellectualism is bullshit. Live your life the way you want. Books are entertainment of course but they will enhance your vocabulary and your interpretation skills.

This.
If you want to live your life to impress other, you'll always be miserable.

Alvin Toffler covered some of this in his books Future Shock and the Third Wave. Basically societal change is occuring too quickly for the average person. To compound matters you have entirely too much available information to make decisions easily. The more info the harder to make a determination. This leaves people overwhelmed and often they give up similar to how you are feeling.

>OP is fed up with books
>yeah well here are some books that talk about what youre going through

kek

Reading 1 "introduction to _____" to complete comprehension and there will be 10 other introduction to related fields books that you already understand mostly. It's all just repackaging of the same core ideas.

>I can't stand philosophy because of all the unfalsifiable garbage.

Such as?

No I covered the premise and gave where it came from. Op's issue isnt intellectual anyways his problem is one of melancholy. See OP is comparing himself to the people he is reading. He isnt reading for knowledge or understanding he is going throguh the motions. He is trying to drape himself with the trappings of someone of "understanding". OP is clearly young and cant differentiate between knowledge and wisdom. Wisdom will only come from experience which takes time.

either kill yourself or go on the antidepressant jew you sad fuck

>seeing attractive young people is humiliating

Why???

Sounds like the NEET has depression from being useless his whole life. Get a job

I can relate to all of this. What you need to be doing is just stop giving a fuck about what other people think or believe. People never like it when you succeed and it doesn't matter how good you are because it is true: most people do only care about drama. But those people's lives are quite meaningless and pathetic.Try to avoid people who talk about people, everyone with a socialwhore-personality is a IRL shill and an overall cunt.

Also try doing what you Want to do and not so much what is expected of you because most people don't appreciate anything. Individualism will suit you.

Otherwise: create a family and learn survival skills. Families are the final red pill, when you have that your life has a greater purpose than trying to become a science prodigy and failing and finally giving up. Just don't waste your life. Do something! Learn how to make a fucking hut or something.

Also; Having a lot of information around you doesn't mean it's a bad thing. Do you think most people actually read all the great classics? Even on /lit/? Those cucks google as much as any other newfag cunt, they just act superior because they have read more 120pp books, but it doesn't by far make them smarter. Most of those faggots are gullible as fuck and completely pussified.

I must be way smarter than you OP, coz I'm on top of every subject. Every one that counts. Everyone I've ever met says I am a genius and the most interesting person they've met, and wonder how I know so much about everything - and yet there's is still plenty to learn. I just dabble for fun.

Helps being a full time NEET.

Spend an hour and a half to learn the truth.

from someone a few years down the line of your train of thought

cynicism is a tool to untie problems in your life, for yourself or others. it is not a lifestyle. as time passes, you will begin to see your effort to be impartial consolidate completely into a set of life skills while the overarching feeling of cynicism subsides. you will lose commonality with equally-critical people, even rejecting them at times for being too critical, or making fun of them for being too serious or wasting their time trying to fix things. you will begin to just see the world as 'just the way the world is', a web of surface interaction deeply weaved by the spiders that hide below, hidden from others but not from you. abandoning the amoral compass of cynicism will lead you to a striking revelation of the true evils of the world, which will in turn convert you into a permanent activist for honesty. you will become a paragon in your community, a religious leader, an outspoken critic, a role model for anyone that you encounter. it is in your best interests, and everyone's best interests, as you naturally come to these conclusions to connect with people and share your experiences and wisdom.

but don't listen to me. listen to your inner compass and continue down your path in life unabated. what i share with you is a hint of your future.

>families are the ultimate redpill
LOL NO

>putting all my time and money into creating someone that might fuck me over in the future regardless of parenting

>not moving into the county
>living in Jew York
>Not spending you useless NEET tranny-fapping time on trying to find a nice southern girl
>shilling "don't meke bebis goyim!!!" on a Thailandese Wifeswap picture board.
Get a life, handcuck.

This was a comfy read.

and for the record it's Thai

Take the hermit pill and plug out of society. Pursue apolitical spirituality. Meditate, exercise, paint, play the guitar. Cook, build, hunt, spoil your dog, create some artisanal woodwork, do mountainbiking, climbing, use the internet and your computer only for productive things. Write a book.

I hope to have saved enough money to buy a plot of land and a comfy cabin somewhere in france, by the time I'm 35. Kinda like Varg did. But I have no interest in women or a family. I'm not a fighter nor do I identify with the white race collectively. I want to grow spiritually.

That seems like the worst, most hollow existence imaginable. Different strokes for different folks I guess.

You sound apathetic.

Do you by chance regularly masturbate to porn, drink alcohol and/or drugs?

nice pasta, dude

look at foundations of muh infallible mathematics

it is literally muh feelings

muh set is a collection of things

an axiom is muh feeling I deem is right

you can assume a negation of your axiom and the theory is still consistent

all is your feelings

So basically, you're a teenager?

I also relate. Intellectuality brings in some degree of spleen and feelings of isolation. It also brings in doubts about the very possibility of "knowing things", since everything is subject to fallible interpretations.

Intellectuality is not bad per se, and it is indeed a good thing. But the modern approach of dem "intellectuals" merely borders on solid content and focuses instead in vanity, entertainment and self-grandeur.

I would say that good intellectuality focuses in understanding and (possibly) solving real world problems, and has nothing of raw pretense or glamour in and of itself. One must read books and seek knowledge not for the very sake of "enrichment" or "acquiring culture", which are vain purposes, but for understanding reality, even a tiny part of it, and actively participating in it, living it, and occasionally changing it in a positive way.

How does being an adult feel like? It's like the sense of being part of some story where you are the protagonist kind of fizzles out, unceremoniously and leaves you drifting for the rest of forever.

As a kid, you're on a path, there's a plan laid out for you, and whether you intentionally break from the plan or follow it to the letter, there's this linear progression of growth, and an ultimate goal to strive for. You have allies, you have enemies, you have trials that you pass or fail, you have moments of catharsis, etc. You feel like part of a beautiful narrative, like the heroes in movies and books and tv shows and stories. You feel like there's a right and a wrong way to go, and some ultimate fate waiting for you at the end that will sum up what all of it meant.

When you get to be an adult, that illusion crumbles away as you realize that you don't have a narrative, there is no path or plan, things aren't always linear, and you're nobody's hero. There are no allies, because friends can be both good and bad for you simultaneously. There are no enemies, because frankly no one cares enough to wage a personal war for long. You don't have a destiny. You make choices that are more a product of random chance than you want to admit, and sometimes the consequences make sense, sometimes they don't. You may flounder around in a bunch of different directions for many years, ultimately not making any progress, and having nothing of import to show for it. You're not a good person or an evil person - you're just an ant wandering around looking for crumbs. No, worse than an ant, because an ant has a purpose in life, to serve its queen and colony. You can choose to align yourself with a purpose, but it may never fulfill you or reward you. And nobody will be waiting with a shiny gold medal for you if you stick to it.

Life as an adult seems less and less like an exciting adventure story and more and more like a delirious, confusing fog of random developments and passing phases that raise more questions than they answer. The realization of how small your impact actually is, and that you are not destined for anything great, and how subject you are to forces bigger than yourself - that's a tough pill to swallow.

I suppose you have a bridge nearby, I recommend you to go there and jump m8

just play the normie game

if you play it good enough maybe they'll reward you with the most delicious shekels in the day

then you can spend the rest of your life at night shitposting

I will make tea and return to this thread. Will help you through your existential crisis m8 just w8

dont kys for another 15 mins, k ?

Nihilism in a nutshell.

Go read some Camus, do more hedonism. Figure out what you like "to do" not what you idealized yourself "to be".

Must be some good advice you have lined up.