The world may be crumbling, but I'm not. I don't subscribe to the Jordan Peterson "you have a moral imperative to improve yourself to improve the world, and if you don't strive to improve the world well hey man that has a very dark outcome". I'm playing a completely different game.

>>24697028
I was young once and had this mentality 20 years ago during Iraq, 9-11, dotcom crash, 2008 meltdown, etc. Only thing I can do is change myself and how I react. The world is fake and gay and always has been. Many of these great books were written during times where people felt the world was collapsing.

The world isn't crumbling. Nothing ever changes. Life goes on the same as ever.

The world is always crumbling if u think about it

>>24697028
I mostly read so I can contemplate and write up solutions for the next generation. I hope they could work with it when their world starts crumbling

>>24697028
Cause we don't have much time left and there are still a lot of books.

>>24697028
>first world
>suffering
no such thing

reading Guénon and seeing everything he talked about unfold in real time is really something

The world is basically fine, certainly not crumbling. There are obviously things that are outrageous or unsatisfying but the collective catterwauling about how awful everything is nowadays is just social neurosis. Things are more-or-less alright. Spend less time online.

Condolences on being British though, consider moving to Ireland. It's like Britain but significantly better in every way.

>>24697226
Don't let them escape containment, most of the Brits I know are insufferable. Everyone jokes about Americans knowing nothing outside of America, but in my experience Brits are worse at it
Nearly every single one I talk to always claim that it's the end of the world because they have no frame of reference. Every time I talk about leaving Britain, they talk about the lower quality of life despite not knowing how non-Parliamentary political systems work or how non-A1 school systems work. And if I do tell them they have certain things way better at a systemic level than a lot of 3rd world countries, they backpedal and say that it's not true because Britain is a shithole
The only Brits I can tolerate are from Liverpool

>>24697028
I've accepted reality as it is. What else is there to do? There's a surplus of funding, talent and effort pulling in the ai direction (our only real hope). Jesus take the wheel.

>>24697179
Brown hands typed this

>>24697028
I read books to ignore the crumbling. Days I don't read I check pol or x and get caught up in bullshit. Days I read all day and forget to check current events I notice a total lack of stress and annoyance at the world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX_r9R98DiY
It's worse than crumbling. We'll wait endlessly for a barbarian horde that never sacks our city while we slowly transform into something unrecognizable, likely hedonistic pigpeople like in Wall-E.
AI shit will change everything, all our assumptions about what matters etc.

>>24697485
How crazy is it that Europe was almost completely white until recently, and everyone enunciated properly, bore themselves properly, didn't act like degenerate fucking retards. It feels like we're in Hell compared to this.

>>24697028
Probably the latter. That island status that was once a supreme advantage is now as much a disadvantage thanks, perhaps ironically, to tech. The U.S. OTOH is huge: many refuges (I reside in one) in despite of tech

>>24697028
We aren't doing that whole "doomer" meme anymore anon. We grew out of that.

Bearing witness to the crumbling is the foremost reason I wake up in the morning.
>britbong
Sorry for your loss.

>>24697499
>and everyone enunciated properly, bore themselves properly, didn't act like degenerate fucking retards
I dunno about all that anon. Certain places have had a reputation for being full of degens for a while.

>>24697028
What exactly makes you feel like the world is collapsing? I believe it might be Russia or economic crisis?

>>24697028
It’s because the people here are affluent leftists what don’t realize how evil their faction is and in reality know nothing of what really matters.

2025 has been the best year of my life

>>24697028
The time to act is long past. The people who could have done something either did nothing or made the situation worse. We have no choice but to read and to think. In that way, fallen as we are, we are like the monks of Europe after the fall of Rome.

>>24697028
You're surrounded by grey skies all the time so I'd imagine its the latter

>>24698552
I feel I might be too vague here so I’ll elaborate with some examples.
You’re a Brit. The time to act was during Thatcher’s time, to stop her and the wave of neoliberalization that gutted Britain. Now it is too late, you need to rebuild the UK from a much worse position than you could have been. Given you post here you probably don’t have the resources to revitalize British industry or culture. So you must read and think about how this task and the others in the UK (handling Islamists, addressing cultural rot, health and economic issues, etc.) must be done. You can’t be Churchill so be Scruton. You can’t be Lenin so be Marx. Get it?

>>24698329
>I believe it might be Russia or economic crisis?
This is probably a real, adult human. There are real people like this out there and that's why we're doomed.

>>24697028
I had a spiritual experience and I realized that there's more to this reality than me being an insignificant meatsack. So I have been reading a lot lately to try and understand my spirituality and consciousness
I've been reading a lot of Jung lately, seems like he's really smart about those metaphysical types of things

>>24697028
World is not crumbling, only changing. The ones who are really scared are the old guard. Don’t let them meme you into being scared to. There’s something very malicious about the modern days placating of young men, they’re so scared of them actually being strong and doing things. They need to layer on the lies, trickery and bullshit to waste as much time of yours as possible.

>>24697226
Ireland is currently speedrunning the exact same problem scenario that Britain is in and they have yet to develop any vaguely right wing parties.
>>24697249
The ones from Liverpool threatened to steal your car if you didn't write that didn't they?

>>24697028
The world will crumble either way so enjoy it while you can.

>>24697028
Because according to faggots like (You) the world has been "ending" for what? The last two or three decades?
Get over it, the collapse won't happen until you are dead and your bones have turned to dust

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I feel a profound sense of inner peace and spiritual satisfaction, speaking anonymously. I am a devout Muslim. Lots of prayer and lots of tea is sufficient.

I probably drink as much tea as you do, and my ancestors are British and German. In any case, the path forward in life is clear and the path beyond death is pleasant beyond words.

Books, books to read. Well I am selling all my books and starting a book selling business, except for my Koran and my King James Bible. I'm a student of religion in general. Beyond Arabic studies, Shia books of Hadith, and a yet translated eschatalogical text from the Sayyid of Iraq titled The Era of Emergence.

Beyond Islamic studies? I'm seeking out a book on React, the front-end web development framework, to make my website look slick and pretty. A website about what? Books, mostly, and polite intellectual discussion. I will also advertise my book business on it, and advertise authors as well. Maybe even your book! If you'd like. No smut, that's the main rule.

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>>24702095

A man must make an honest living, and I am only a man as you are. Presumably. Every man has their origin. On my dad's side, Scots from Northumbria. What is now Northern England.

How my soul yearns for the old country, as rednecks call it. The green hills and plains, the comfortable little world of old time tradition. The other day I was watching a documentary on British rug making, a tradition adopted from Persia.

Why? I aspire to raise sheep. It is wise to process their wool. Wool to yarn, yarn into products. What products? Rugs, prayer mats. Maybe scenes of Appalachia, hills and little American flags. Maybe plain colors or geometric patterns. The shepherd, a tradition from the old country, a Sunnah of Islam. Tea, another shared tradition.

There should be a word for it, probably is a word for it in German. Germans have a word for everything. That warm, comfortable feeling of being embedded within a traditional heritage. Old rugs, old libraries, stories of the old times from old men and women. Speaking slowly, another Sunnah. Living with the pace of the seasons.

Warmth, spiritual purity and goodness. The holy order of nature with a human being firmly in it and belonging well. A little village, a warm bowl of soup. A little drama, a little comedy. Low stakes, a slow pace, a smile and a big hug from a big country girl.

The reality of a pastoral life is no fantasy, but the country is beautiful and brings me closer to God. For all its warts and imperfections, there is beauty in life and it is worth living. There is my great big mansion, its pillars are pines and its roof is the phasing skies full of lights and stars, winds of fury and the great milky band of the galaxy.

>>24697185
This. If anything I feel privileged to witness the acceleration of the Kali Yuga end stages first hand. That's no reason not to read all kinds of stuff, better make the most of my time before it's too late.

>>24697499
The great replacement is not a conspiracy theory, it's a fact. They stole everything from us, including our future.

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>>24702127

The new country is not like the old country, but it is where I firmly belong. It is sharper here, it is more dangerous, but in its vast expanse a man is afforded greater freedoms. It is far from the shores of the old country.

Freedom is not free, its price is constant vigilance. Like the Picts, it does not come without a fight. A defensive struggle. The wicked seek to deprive the free man of his freedom at every waking moment in a corrupt quest for power.

I see a storm approaching in the distance, a great machine that seeks to subdue every free man and make him into a slave. My religion commands the oppressed to fight and struggle against oppression until it is no more, it compels multitudes into ranks and rows to fight for God. I see a final stand of God believing men against a global, godless tyranny.

One of the most common themes in the Persian art of rug making is the garden carpet. A scene of a walled garden, a paradise of meadows and streams surrounded by high walls. In the Koran, it is stated that God is pleased when believers array themselves in rows to struggle for Him like a firm wall. We, the believers, are the wall itself, and the way of life of God believing people is our garden.

Victory is assured to the faithful. I do not doubt for a moment that God's holy justice will prevail over godless tyranny.

I have perspective.

>>24697028
What is it?
>climate change
>geopolitical tensions
>the wealth gap
>AI sentience
>mass immigration
>culture loss/decline of christian values
I could go on for another 20 lines of things people mention as the reason that they “can’t do x, the world is on fire!”

It’s a shit cope. Like >>24697056 said, 20 years ago it was the economical crisis, war on terror etc. 20-30 years before, it was the Cuba missile crisis, cold war, people dying in Cambodia, oil running out… There is always something bad going on, and each generation always believes “yes, but THIS time it’s going to be the end of the world”. None of them have ever been right.

>>24702144
Amen brother. As a Christian I stand beside you against the rising of the great machine which no doubt heralds the arrival of the end times. Faithful peoples of all creeds will have to rise together to weather the tide of destruction building up on the horizon. We need to cast aside our differences and proclaim our unshakable faith in the One as the fortress shielding us against the destructive evil that rampages our world. We will live to witness unspeakable abominations, and perhaps only our children shall see the Good triumph but we shall fight nonetheless. Godspeed and may you meet many sound souls who still believe in something in these barren times.

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>>24702144

A war will come unlike any before it. The threads of a great holy war are tying us together at an increasing pace. Yet, despite this, life goes on.

So savor the simple things, like a sweet cup of tea. Love and cherish what is good and righteous, for a man to protect what he loves is an act of love.

We cannot avoid the war that is coming, and for the righteous to participate is an act of love and not hatred. The protector will succeed over the aggressor, the free will succeed over the tyrant, as it has been before and so will be again.

Here we are and the days still pass, while the vast wheels are turning so are the little wheels of our daily lives. So we live on, day by day, and savor what we can. There will be a day for reckoning unlike any other, but there will be days much like any other day much more often.

In patience, in prayer, live on and savor the days. Treasure them in soberness and diligence, in time well spent, do not waste your life. As God has given it to you as a gift.

>>24697226
>The world is basically fine, certainly not crumbling.
You obviously haven't been to Paris lately.

>>24699659
>World is not crumbling, only changing.
The Native Americans probably thought the same thing. Now look at them.

>>24697058
>>24697226
>>24697605
This is the kind of boomer mentality that brought us there and which will ensure that things keep getting shittier and shittier without an end in sight. What cowardice, what naivete.

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>>24702165

A day will come when justice has been reckoned.

A day will come when the sun rises and the war is over and won.

Always remember the dawn after the dark. Look beyond to the feast of the fruits of struggle.

Not only in this life, but in the next as well. For this life is only a test, and for the faithful, golden fields await.

All will be well. This vision of justice will always be stronger than the schemes of the wicked.

There is certain good, there is certain evil, beyond all doubt. It is clear.

Love will always be stronger than hate.

Righteousness will prevail.

Stay true to God.

Keep faith.

Protect the holy flame.

It must never die and will never die.

I miss when 4chan was about hobbies and not wailing about society. nu4chan somehow turned into the edgy version of 2010 tumblr.

>>24702095
>>24702127
>>24702144
>>24702165
>>24702176
I needed this. Thank you.

>>24699659
Young men are stupid and violent. If you’re still into reactionary politics past your 20s, you’re ngmi.
And I still find time to read and not keep my head buried in the sand. They aren’t mutually exclusive.

>>24700816
okay nihilistic "I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE" cosmology tranny

>>24702191
>young men
Unfortunately zoomers are too effeminate to qualify as such, and will never amount to more than being le internet based. Maybe gen A Will be better.

>>24697226
>think maybe it's not so bad
>think maybe i can just enjoy things as they are
>say i can't do anything but accept it, anyway, can i?
>go out and take a long walk and take things in
>come back home three hours later seething at people, modernity, civilization, myself for being complacent in all of it
>spend the rest of the day fantasizing about suicide
>repeat every week
thinking things are even a little ok is delusional to the point it should be taken as sufficient for forced admittance to a mental ward. saying what you say is must be a sign of total shutdown as a cope or actual evil

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>>24697028
because i am like a rock in a river, i don't give a fuck anymore about stuff, especially politics and garbage drama

>>24702272
>oh no i saw a somewhat brownish person help me lovecraft's cat

>>24697226
Ireland sucks way harder than Britain. I can see it being alright if you’re some kind of tourist or big tech transplant but to actually live in it’s grim. No jobs, nothing to do but drink, anyone with a brain leaves, often to Britain.
I’ve got citizenship for both and I live in Canada now, Canada is better than either by a long shot.

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>>24697028
Let me give you some advice, little buddy. Stop looking at or reading the news for a while and whatever is bothering you will go away. News media is designed to keep you agitated and stressed, constantly overwhelmed with information about things far away from you that either have no influence on you or that you have no means of affecting. But they want you to believe these things are critically important to your well-being, because that way you'll stay addicted to the news cycle. They're running a business, I assume you realize. Did someone 200 years ago need to have a constant flood of information about all the terrible goings-on in the world? No, and neither do you. Also stop going to any political websites or forums. After you understand the negative effect these things have on you, you may be able to re-engage with them in a healthier way in the future, but right now you need to let them go.

>>24702191
>reactionary politics
What does that mean, sounds like a slur for "not taking it up the ass"?

>>24703119
This, just go to the Turkish barber and buy your kebab and go to the shisha bar and remove that cross while walking down your street and tell Saoirse to cover up so that she doesn't provoke men into raping her while she's learning about Islam and LGBT values in the mosque preschool.

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>>24697028
>as a britbong
RUN!!!!