Tfw undergrad american literature classes

>tfw undergrad american literature classes
>expecting yet another boring puritan poem or babby's first ethical ideas
>find genuinely insightful and very well-written thoughts on going against the grain and how independence and originality are a measure of greatness, reminiscent of Nietzsche
this shit is great

Transcendentalism is the only strand of American philosophy worth reading, and yet again proves the superiority of New England culture over the rest of the intellectually barren continent.

got any recommendations?

I really enjoyed that book. My favorite quotation was the one about how no landowner lets any old cart mess up the soil by travelling across it, and so too nobody with sense should allow extraneous noise and garbage to ruin their mental purity.

Nietzsche loved Emerson. Pity the vast majority of Nietzscheans here don't care to investigate this fact. Well pieced, undergrad senpai.

"Emerson does not know how old he is now and how young he is yet to be!" - Nietzsche

Emerson is great.

My mommy never gave me the attention I needed so now I relive this shit by compulsively spending every ounce of energy I have towards others, trying to make them notice/like me and not towards myself and my well being.
What does RWE recommend in such cases?
(Asking for a friend not me ofc)

Wrong. The transcendentalist feeder group Pragmatists are well 'worth reading.' Particularly William James.

Read a few Emerson essays willy-nilly. Perhaps History, The Poet, Circles. Then go outside, stretch, and take a good, long walk. Meditate. Determine to become an anachronism. After a light meal read Self Reliance. Before retiring read Whitman's The Sleepers. Next morning youll be cured.
By 'anachronism' I mean be someone determined to live in a time and place that antedates your current articulation of what ails you. Play YOUR OWN game (the one your playing now is hackneyed). Don't be afraid to use your imagination, but at the same time keep all your new ways and means to yourself.

Why is hermitism so common theme in (moral) literature? Were /ourguys/ always tortured by normies and their bankrupt morality?

If I descend from my 10y mountain exile and follow my own way am I any better than the braindead normie conformist whose values were always aligned to the majority's? I mean, he kind of always does what he wants too