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 Veeky Forums 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.

I think we all need to man up and admit that money, youth, videogames, and good looks are as good as it gets. But not everyone gets.

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I agree tbqh. Video games are still boring and dumb tho but the rest is right.

>Seeing attractive young people is humiliating.

Be humilated that your chance with her is gone forever. That she lost her viriginty to somebody who couldn't even read a book.

Just kidding, but the thing is, of course you hate them, they're involved with a society that is dependant on competition. Introverts hate competition.

Compete for the hottest bitch. Compete for the most likes. Compete for the happiest times, bragging rights, good sex, jealousy, money, success, superiority, everything. They want you to see them as better, and each time they do, they stimulate you into bettering yourself or challenging them for superiority, but due to an imbalance of testosterone, or oxytocin or whatever other chem, that triggers a Veeky Forums level response, kind of like the bigass thing you just wrote.

Calm the hell down, and visit a therapist. Discover what chem your brain is lacking, and address it. Then, when you see everyone else doing whatever the hell else, you'll realize they don't matter, and then shit just suddenly starts working.

Don't let biological glitches cause you to get spooked out. Spooking out is for introverted failures, the crustaceans at the bottom of the ocean who just accept scraps and won't swim up out of fear of being eaten by things that aren't there.

Fear of spooks is a spook. Just get the right ones.

>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.
Stop this and listen to Radio War Nerd. You will learn more about life eading John Dolan's essays than that hack Brett Easton Ellis could shit out in 100 novels. Mark Ames is also one of the best journalists and writers of our time. The two of them are incredibly connected to the world and its history and their insight keeps me sane.

Since this is a literature board I'll tell you to keep reading books. The fact that you can write a post this long tells me the books are working in your favor, you just need perspective.

Try reading Dostoevsky's book Demons or if you think it's too long to capture your interest read Notes From Underground. Those books aren't self help garbage but Dostoevsky was very smart and very cynical in his writing which is what I enjoy and I think you will connect with it.

I won't get into spooks because that is a long discussion and I think you are confusing your sense of disquiet for the realization of the hollowness of society which is what I will focus on instead.

This pasta is pretty much right, except that they forgot about love of country, or political causes. Go help people or fight for people, you lazy fucks. Not because you're philosophically required to, but because it gives you a meaning other than your own immediate gratification.

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This. Forget all this shit for a while and go dip your wick. I think it will reset your frameworks

>t. Someone who knows nothing about economics

>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.

t. what is a procrastination

that nigga is mad greedy and dumb for making people pay for his talking

>he fell for the falsifiable spook
Scientism lives

>all this spook

>Seeing attractive young people is humiliating.

i bet there is a japanese word for this feeling

>Stop this and listen to Radio War Nerd.

Is this paywalled and I need to support his patreon or am I dumb and I can't find it anywhere?

You have realised that other people should not be in control of your life and values.

You have no idea about your own life and values.

You think you have come to the end of some depressing train of thought, but you have literally JUST opened the door a crack to peek at the possibility of the Real Thing.

Time to square your chest, take a deep breath, put an existential-hero smile on your face, and walk through the door.

This is the sort of moral and intellectual failure you can reliably expect when painting with such a wide brush. As you develop intellectually you'll abandon this tendency towards crude reductionism. I had similar thoughts to those expressed in this post when I was around 16. Overwhelmed by the fact that becoming educated in any one area would take so many hours of my life, conceiving of reading as a chore due to school, I came up with elaborate excuses to avoid learning. In the end, fortunately, I found a book I liked and my path was soon corrected.

Whatever you're dealing with in your life, I hope you get past it.

There is no need to let intellectual pursuits affect your happiness in this way - we do them for fun. Of course you will feel oppressed if you see reading etc. as a great task that is expected of you, just as you will see thinkers as frauds if you approach them seeking answers that will bring you happiness or certainty. Seeking knowledge/wisdom/truth is done for the enjoyment thereof: if you do not find it enjoyable, focus on something else instead, however I suspect that you once found enjoyment of it, but the condemnatory/anti-human tendencies of this board has sucked them dry of it. Words are wonderfully fun things to play with, but make no mistake, life comes first, then the words that describe it.
A psychedelic experience or two might help you get your priorities in order.

Basically I agree with

you're a fag, faggot

>because it gives you a meaning
Says who, exactly?

>have a shallow knowledge of everything and a deep appreciation of nothing
>everything is shit and not worth my time

You could quite honestly pick any of the fields you just dismissed and after a few years of study feel perfectly content in pursuing that and little else for the rest of your life.

What about the arts? Have you any interest in music? The works of Chopin alone are special enough to justify devoting a lifetime of appreciation.

You're talking about a lot of things that you can't stand any more. Uncertainty and doubt most of all, a pressure to know it all, perhaps to control it all, not only that, but to be certain of it, to test for what is false and what's "the real thing".

Even when you admit to an impossible endeavour (which is a great first step), you resent it greatly. It's true that you won't know about the Greeks or current Chinese politics in depth while also about nutrition and movies and math and walk around without feeling humiliated by attractive people (!!! Do you hear yourself?). It's important that you notice this. But then again, you can choose. You can choose to read more about economy today, or to watch a movie tomorrow. Pay attention that you'd be choosing one of them in detriment of all else, true, but in order to do that, you would have to learn to lose something, to miss it. It's also true that the next day is a new day to make a new choice, so perhaps no idiocy is "iredeemable", I'd doubt that.

No wonder it is frustrating to discover history is indeed a never ending, never concluding read of the world's past, with no certainty of knowledge.You'll always leave something behind, you're just mourning that you have done so. "Painfully adapting" to "abandoning the pretension" to be a "dilettante in everything". Why do you want to be a dillettante in everything anyway?

You know it is impossible, you just want it to be possible. Your neurosis appears when, as you try to control everything and take all for yourself, you also take this impossibility to your responsibility, as a sign of a supposed impotence of yours. You are not impotent for not knowing everything, knowing everything is impossible, as you've pointed out yourself.

>I just about read books but only because society tells me I should, though I don't derive much enjoyment
Why embrace such suffering? In other words: what do you suppose you'll get by doing what you think society is telling you to do? What do you want from this? See how you do not even accept missing out on something you do not enjoy doing? What exactly do you think that happens if you stop reading books?

>I am so past watching movies or tv shows, even ones that pander to "edgy" young males
Wow, "even those"? You think society tells you to like those as well?

>And obviously I have an existential crisis
Everything is so "obvious" to one who is dilettante in everything, isn't it? Even Veeky Forums's reaction you predict and answers it before it gets to you. It makes it very hard for the world to surprise you when you try to be ahead of it. What you call existential crisis, I'd call simply neurosis.

You'd gain a lot by going to see an analyst. Though you'd lose a lot with as well, which is perhaps more what you need to do right now, if you want to shake things up in your life.

>all these serious replies to a shitty copypasta
Is everyone on this board fucking retarded?

Half of them used to be free, lately they've been releasing paid ones. The free ones will be posted on the patreon. I used to sub to it because they give great analysis on a lot of stuff and it was convenient to listen to them.

I'd say if you want to listen to a podcast it's worth it because they put out about 2-4 episodes a month that range from 90 - 240 minutes an episode but if you can't devote the time to listen then just get the free ones when they drop.

You've allowed the virus of spectacular abundance to mold you into the kind of apathetic nihilistic social-capital-consuming fuckpig that society needs to turn its cogs. Stop filling your head with that shit and go pick up a Bible.

It doesn't matter if it is pasta, it's not like you are actually making a difference to people when you reply them here.

And does it make sense to listen to the old podcasts? I thought that he is discussing current political situation, so personally I don't see a point in learning a point of view on Iraq from 2004.

The answer is quite simple. Do what you enjoy and accept intellectual humility, and don't deride those who enjoy learning simply out of your own insecurity

user, most intellectualism is simply a power game, a field into which some people like to enter and try to prove they 'know it all' in order to exert mental advantage over others who don't have the same currency of knowledge. A lot of people on Veeky Forums are like this and try to pretend that they are well-versed in fundamental Western thought because it is a way of asserting dominance in the sphere of information acquisition, where emasculated failure in the true competitive field of sexual posturing finds its consolation prize. Now there are some people who genuinely are fascinated by different areas of thought and are learned simply by dint of that fascination, but I would say a majority of people enjoy 'acquiring' knowledge more than actually learning, just so that they can feel that much better than you for having read some author or other

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

how to spot a STEMfag. go back to i fucking love science facebook page you pleb

The old ones can be worth listening to. There are current events in every episode but often the focus is a long discussion on a historical conflict which is used to frame current events. Their discussions on previous Asian and African conflicts is useful for understanding the current political climate of the nations on those continents.

The two of them probably know more about Russia than any other Western journalists. Mark Ames ran one of the most successful Moscow based newspapers during the Yeltsin years and John Dolan has a PhD in literature (on de Sade so he is unemployable) that is well read on Russian literature and also wrote for Ames' paper (Mark Ames was one of his students at UC Berkeley).

Start with the more recent episodes and work your way back by listening to the ones which sound most interesting.

>I just about read books but only because society tells me I should, though I don't derive much enjoyment
What kind of stupid argument is this? If you don't like reading then don't. No one's going to give you back the time you're wasting doing something you don't like (and getting nothing in return).

Thx, m8. You are the reason I keep coming back to this board.