Are creative people doomed to unhappiness?
>>24821200Elaborate on your definition of Creativity and Happiness and then reiterate your question.
>>24821200Not if you create
No. Next question
>>24821200No
>>24821200Yes
>>24821209>>24821222>>24821228>>24821254As it stands, I'm literally too intelligent to be happy or have meaningful connections with people. No matter what happens I will always be the smartest person in the room. When I'm talking to people, even people who're older than me who have dedicated their entire lives to intellectual pursuits, they have to pause and collect their thoughts because they literally cannot think at the same speed and with the same complexity as me. I can master anything with such ease that I've given up trying, no matter what I do I'll never be able to connect with the world around me or the people in it.Sometimes I feel like I'm the only real human on this planet.
>>24821286On the off-chance it's not just Dunning-Kruger of some loser, read Schopenhauer. “To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.”― Arthur Schopenhauer
>>24821286>I'm literally too intelligent to be happy
>>24821286>tfw can't solve a problem because too intelligent
>arrogant, pretentious fuck lacks connections with peoplemind == blown
>>24821286>too stupid to understand that he doesn't need to have deep conversations to form meaningful connections
This thread fucking sucks. I'm going back into my creativity coffin
>>24821286alright Brains, download MaxForLive and put together something that sounds like thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2XoN3nj0nc
I'm literally too intelligent and creative to be sad.
>>24821200haha OP I love froggo XD
>>24821286this is exactly how i feel ive ascended and now theres no going up from here bot
>the freud line about moving from hysterical misery to ordinary unhappiness. a similar distinction: interesting vs uninteresting forms of unhappiness. to want something, to lack shelter or respite from the blunt animal miseries of exploitation, scarcity and torture - surely part of the cruelty of these is how they overshadow all the other ways that we might be unhappy. and how meagre their countervailing images of happiness turn out to be, money, food, ammo or red potion. compare to the strange and elaborate unhappinesses involved in simply being alive, in the directionless abundance of perception itself, that stuck tap endlessly pouring out into a drain. isn't that something worth fighting for, something everyone deserves?
sorry but you're simply not "too intelligent" until you've severely stunted it with drugs until you weren't "too intelligent" anymore. genuinely intelligent people know how the fuck to destroy themselves.faggot.
>>24821286if you're so smart, why haven't you invented a reason to be happy?
>>24823436This. I've been systematically destroying and slowing my brain for around twenty years. I have descended and it feels quite good or, at least, peaceful.
>>24821286This is the parody version of a truth, but he's not wrong in claiming that if you're smart your baseline for "meaningful" conversation is higher and meeting interesting people becomes harder, which in turn makes you feel very lonely.The other extremely depressing thing is being surrounded by idiots. At school, on the workplace, in uni, etc. you can be as charitable and empathetic as you want but you will give in to being angry or sad if you have to spend 30+ years of your life having to explain yourself through things that seem obvious to you only to register that other people not thinking at your same pace. You will also witness on an everyday basis people communicating and failing - and think that you could have express what they wanted to say better, faster, in a way that would solve whatever problem quicker and more effectively. In the beginning you will make effort to help others, but to keep this going for your whole life requires immense patience, and the reserve of stupid people unable to communicate or explain themselves is always on the rise. I don't even think that they're less complex than me, and I firmly believe we feel things in very similar way and in similar intensity - but my capacity to talk about what I feel (or what others feel), understand it and communicate it in an effective way is superior and this makes communication with others very very difficult sometimes.You get depressed not because you understand things better, but because other people don't. This feels very lonely and very sad.
>>24821200no, in fact being creative is an important part of a well rounded, fulfilling existence
