What are some novels I can read on the philosophy that the "mask" you wear is more important than the truth that's...

As physical evidence that Spengler was on to something.

As weird as this sounds: Respect for Acting by Uta Hagen. She addresses acting and that sort of thing, and how people feel compelled to transform themselves into characters or that whole bullshit when acting, but instead she talks about it as a natural change of masks. In life, we wear one mask for the mailman and another for the doctor and another for your mother. All that shit. Maybe helpful.

mother night by kurt vonnegut

Great game. It's one of the few zelda games with real depth and darkness to it.

Picture of Dorian Gray? Quite poignant considering the current zeitgeist...

>only what affects others is important

Your extroversion is showing

>games with real depth

Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut definitely, in my opinion his best book

this is actually a good response.

Normie tier literature, but the concept is explored in Lord of the Flies

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It wont be more concrete than this

What's wrong with extroversion?

Too much emphasis on extroversion depreciates internal experience.

The most important things that have happened today have not occurred "out there" in the Plains of Anatolia, or the Straits of Singapore, or the corridors of the Pentagon, but in your own soul. That vast unexplored region, itself no more studied than the dark side of a far off planet is some distant galaxy.

The Prince by Machiavelli

do you find sometimes that one arm feels longer than the other?

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Hamlet, the play scene.

The realist novels of the1800's also touch on the theme of having to give a false image of yourself to others, although their conclusions are probably no the ones you are looking for. Cousin Basilio, by Eça, for instance, deals with a woman who's cheated on her husband and get obsessed with the fact that her maid might discover it, and thus end her false image of a good wife.

A novel is never anything but a philosophy in a story.

So just read Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray.

the minister's black veil by hawthorne!

Damn that's deep son

Marxism and psychoanalysis generally cover this sort of "feeling."

the Slovene has a lot to say about this rt

To save you time from thinking too long and hard on this subject OP, I recommend an article from The New York Times that pretty much sums up to : don't be yourself, be sincere.

So, don't be what others want to see in you, don't be what you really are, be who you want to be...

So you want to know why nobody cared who you were before you put on the mask?

there it is

It's more like the inverse of what you're looking for, but the eschaton game scene from Infinite Jest

It's a hilarious moment in which personal motivations gradually bleed into the tactics behind in-game nuclear warfare, eventually resulting in a complete global catastrophe and out-game chaos

zizek is a living meme

that's a pretty big theme in A Song of Ice and Fire.

Whatever *sniff*

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Seconding considering what you've described OP is a much more distinctly Japanese concept that anything else.In fact just read a bunch of Japanese lit in translation.

don't be sad, every philospher was probably considered a meme in their lifetime...

the only one that I can say was objectively the embodiement of the concept of the Meme was fucking Diogenes... he was like imageboard culture made flesh

What are you talking about? Zizek would agree with OP. His statements about the 'masks' we adopt on social media testifies to this.

This right here, one of the greatest works of literature.

"O senor," said Don Antonio, "may God forgive you the wrong you have done the whole world in trying to bring the most amusing madman in it back to his senses. Do you not see, senor, that the gain by Don Quixote's sanity can never equal the enjoyment his crazies give? But my belief is that all the senor bachelor's pains will be of no avail to bring a man so hopelessly cracked to his senses again; and if it were not uncharitable, I would say may Don Quixote never be cured, for by his recovery we lose not only his own drolleries, but his squire Sancho Panza's too, any one of which is enough to turn melancholy itself into merriment."

you're a bad reader.

At least elaborate if you're going to say something like that

>Diogenes... he was like imageboard culture made flesh
This is what pop culture does to your brain.

>memes are bad
Clearly you are so sheltered by the imageboard culture you seems so ready to berate, that you don't actually know what its functional definition is in real academic/scientific discourses.

Also, all the knowledge we have of Diogenes is through folk tales. And even in those myths he is portrayed to be quite the astute and insightful philosopher. Are you retarded?

How does one explore the soul then? I'm genuinely curious. Can anyone suggest some lit that's not pseudo-newage gobbledygook?

>implying I said memes are bad

and yes while Diogenes is indeed portrayed as a very intelligent and logical fellow in folk tales is his manner of discourse by what I compare him to an imageboard culture, where you can find intelligent fellows that care not about how autist or spergy they sound but share their thoughts with the collective, it's the cynical behaviour why I compare him to imageboards

now that I think of it, it was a poor analogy, but from the "normie" point of view I don't think it was too farfetched

>>implying I said memes are bad
>implying I was implying

>implying implications

>implying plural

How did you not get the joke?

But you choose the mask, and the mask is based on your idea of what a person should be. The mask is just another part of you user.

Also Notes from the Undergrpund