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.

you're just fucking retarded

If it were possible, one day you'd have looked back on this post and cringed

but nah it'll just fall off page ten in a few days and you'll never get a chance to feel ashamed of yourself properly

you might just die as a retarded NEET though, that'd be the worst outcome

>there is no objective truth behind anything, including this sentence

>perpetual change is constant, so just go with the flow

low-tier, no argument. what's happening here is just quickly skimming through post and your brain giving a fast socially-accepted response. I recommend you to meditate and get more insight about life.

>no objective truth behind anything
I if I drop this pen, I can tell you if it falls and how fast it falls, everyone can also see it. You're a dumb person trying to sound smart.

No one is actually 'wrong' in this thread

this is pasta

move on

I guess you didn't read the second part of the sentence

What did you mean by Perpetual flow?

actually, you are wrong

How can you objectively see through another's perspective and observe that they are seeing the same thing as you.

You can't.

Read em again. Both statements are paradoxes.

I feel the same way. I wonder sometimes if we're basically living through a second, and planetary, axial age. We simply know too much and we are all crammed in together on one place without any sense of lines, rules, barriers...and on top of that people never get tired of telling you everything in the past was a myth. Postmodernity fucks us up because we simultaneously know that we need some sense of order to live but that every order is oppressive to someone, etc. And yet everybody is so fucking oppressive of themselves that you can hardly breathe.

It will eventually settle down, but not until it gets unbearably bad. The frankly dystopian future we are heading for will at least clear up the real sources of confusion: first, that there is anything we can do about it except chase $$$ (there isn't), and second, that we have anyone else to blame for this but ourselves (we don't).

We're fucked, but the real assholes are the ones who keep saying we aren't fucked. The longer we insist everything is fine, the worse it will get. However, the plain fact is that until we realize that people are more alike than different, and that we are all subject to the requirements of a casino economy, things will only get worse. We know too much about things today to have any illusions, and we have also gotten rid of every necessary illusion that might have helped people to stabilize themselves. So it's all more and more chaos packed into a smaller and smaller place. Totally retarded. And no escape. Just acceleration of stupidity.

Basically there's not much to think about. Gear up for the meltdown or try and live like the greatest generation did. Don't think about it. Thinking doesn't produce solutions. Just hold on to the butts of you and those you love.

Dammit, you're right. Fuck it, not like any of my other posts mattered anyways, why not respond like I want to?
OP is correct. For young people who don't know themselves, they see 'being' something the way someone should live. I should 'be' happy, not 'work to be happy'. However, they fail to realize that all of that is external, so you're always depending upon 'being' handsome, rich, having a girlfriend, stuff, so when all of that falls away(which it will)you'll be left as a sack of shit with no worth as a human being. You didn't build your own internal opinion of yourself, so those things are great, but they only hide the real issue. It's a temporary fix to the permanent problem of being human, where the permanent solution to the problem of being human is to be okay as you are right now.

you're a very intelligent person

you see things in a unique way

other people just don't get it do they?

For practical purposes it works, who cares about philosophizing beyond what's useful for us in life? thats just retarded, you can't prove that others see different things than you do, so theres no point in arguing and using that as a standpoint.

>objectively

what a meme word

>who cares about philosophizing beyond what's useful for us in life

Oh believe me I wish I could only focus on what's 'useful for us in life'

What's the fault in living with external things? There are a lot of rich people who are legit happy because of their belongings, this "dont attach yourself to anything" thing is bullshit buddhism meme

At the end of the day you gotta pay ur rents, when you start wagecucking you'll have no time left to think about philosophy, easy fix. Ignorance is bliss.

You're right, it's perfectly fine. Just don't fall into the trap that those things will help when your heart is failing, you need a doctor. Dick Cheney lived with a machine pumping his blood, he had no pulse for awhile. Could he have done that if he was poor? Of course not. Being rich is awesome. But, that doesn't stop people who have cars worth 1 million dollars from spending their evening at an Eckhart Toole seminar.
Mental worth matters too. Since you're on Veeky Forums, you likely don't have that either so-

You are feeling a natural byproduct of the sort of world we live in. 100 years ago you could pretty much be a farmer, factory worker, or maybe go to college to unlock a few other options.
Nowadays, we live in a world where there are a seemingly unending number of possibilities and you would imagine this would make us happier. On the contrary, studies show that the more choices someone has, the less happy they are and the more stressed they are in making a decision. We've all been in an ice cream parlor with a girl. If the only options are the typical vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry, she makes her decision quickly. For every additional flavor, it takes more time to choose. That's where we're at, paralyzed by possibility.
You say you do nothing, and I know how that is. I was in the same boat for a long time. I stayed in my dimly lit bedroom,played Xbox, and beat off a couple time a day. I was a fucking loser, but I had it justified really well in my head. I did nothing out of existential authenticity and Thoreughian rebellion. I could debate anybody and justify my lifestyle, and sound smart while I did it.
After several years of depression and suicide ideation, I realized maybe my world view wasn't so healthy. I looked into philosophy and self improvement and forced myself to do things. I realized I was only a slave to capitalism as I would have been a slave to hunting and gathering in prehistoric life.
My advice to you is to simply throw yourself into something, regardless of what you think others will say or your own personal biases toward that thing. Be less cerebral and more muscular. Act as much as you think.