>Hi! I am a highschool pseudo-intellectual. >"Today we will learn about Existentialism," says the teacher. >I like this philosophy. It's kind of sad (not really true at all) and I like how they're all sad French guys who smoked and looked kind of sad. I'm sad and they were sad too and we're both sad so maybe I can be an exitenshallest and be sad and the whole world will know that I am sad and also smart. >I will read Jean-Paul Sartre's "Being and Nothingness" >Just got back from reading 5 pages. It was great! *puts book down and never picks it up again >Maybe I should try reading something a little easier. How about Sartre's novel Nausea. >Just read like 30 pages of Nausea. Wow. My mind is really opening up to this sad philosophy. *gives Nausea to a friend and tells him to read it. Tells him, "I've read it twice by now." Friend knows you're lying but that's okay because he still likes you because he thinks you're kind of goofy. >I know so much about existentialism now. >"So, what do you believe user?" You're friend asks you one day. >Ha! Definitely don't believe in God. I'm actually an exastenshaless >"Oh, cool! What's that?" >It's where, like, nothing even matters. Like, we create meaning. And nothing even matters AT ALL. It's kind of sad. >"Huh. Sounds sad. I'm sad too. Maybe I'll join you in being an axasenshaless."
And the outgrowth of the "hip" philosophy will continue. And still no one will know what it actually is.
Dylan Watson
Please don't post on this site anymore.
Nathaniel Reyes
I know both literary and philosophical periods don't really have concrete dates upon which everyone can agree, but did the rise of existentialism occur due to the abundance of tropological writing in Modernism, or was it because of the pessimistic writing in Modernism?
Liam Young
Nausea's good, people are wrong about it
Levi Ward
Yeah, but pseuds always try to read it when they learn about an entry level philosophy like existentialism, and usually their reading comprehension is not what it needs to be to fully grasp something like Nausea.
Joshua Edwards
>Seconded
Jonathan Cook
What's with all the anti existentialism threads in the past 20 minutes
Easton Davis
>exastenshaless kek'd loudly
Jack Cook
samefag
Thomas Butler
not sure whether to kek or to tell you to kill yourself
Anthony Cox
i red the entire Being and Nothingness when i was 16. I must be a genius.
Wyatt Cox
the real high school intellectuals don't ever unleash their power level, they simply internalize it and put up the facade of a normal person.
but every Saturday they retreat down into the depths of their cousin Daniels basement, bringing works of philosophy, history, literature, and poetry with them to seek the harmony they cannot obtain on the outside.
Camden Martinez
Of course you are, son. Dont forget that mommy loves you *kisses*
Zachary Bennett
It's good one OP, kinda made me laugh at myself. Thanks for pointing this out.
Isaac Cox
This is pretty funny. It describes normies so well.
Leo Campbell
Nice shitpost
Christian Howard
I expected to get triggered by this since I am an existentialist but I ended up laughing. thanks OP
Levi Reed
I admit it was pretty good.
Jace Powell
I'm loving how some people in this thread are writing this off as a shit post.
Hudson Jones
>axasenshaless crying
William Myers
OP masturbates furiously as he types with his right hand, fighting back hot tears. He hopes his mother doesn't hear him, but knows she probably does and has been beyond caring for years. He shifts his massive body weight in his office care, and it creaks and squeals menacingly under his giant, hairy ass, staining the seat through his pajama pants and week-old boxer briefs. He wonders vaguely why nobody likes him, but then his phimosis-stucken penis gets one of those sharps pains you get after jerking off too much and he chokes on Mountain Dew
Chase Nelson
why is this so funny
Parker Jackson
Every Sartre writing on philosophy is pure rubbish. His plays are very good though
Gavin Gomez
His plays are writings on philosophy as well though.
Jaxson Garcia
wtf is tropological writing
Jack Sanchez
Tropology means the figurative use of language. Tropological is its adjective form. I learned it the other day.
Ethan King
neat strawman, boy its fun to imagine groups of human beings into existence for the sole purpose of mocking them!