"Having never discovered qualities in myself that might attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me."Fernando Pessoa, The Book of DisquietWhat happened? One hundred years ago that would be considered poetic, now it is just incelism.
>>24842480he's literally me frfr
First of all, the book is not meant to reflect Pessoa, it is by an alter ego, or homonym. He wrote many works under different alter egosSecondly the character is both very poetic and an incel. He is quite conscious he is an incel and says he resents and hates other people for being happy and having friends and lovers when he’s still a virgin. Notes from Underground is also sort of an incel but it is a bit more comedic.
>>24842480Was Portugal really that miserable to live in? He lived in a seaside town, he should have moved closer to the shore. Although I suppose being so close to waves potentially crashing against the rocks at night in the midst of a tumultuous thunderstorm (providing he lived near the sea) would have been rather…. disquieting :)
>>24842480Incels used to have such aura. How we’ve fallen.
>>24842514Being a sub 5 worm can make a hell of heaven and being a chad can make a hell of heaven
>>24842565You say this but for every happy Casanova there’s a depressed chad and for every unhappy incel there’s a happy monk or nun. This emphasis on women as the source of happiness and their absence as the source of misery is pretty new
>>24842480literally me
>>24842601>This emphasis on women as the source of happiness and their absence as the source of misery is pretty newOhh, Sancho, you and your simple, rustic ways
>>24842601There is a 1:1 ratio of happy and depressed chads and this ratio still holds for celibates? Delusional cope. Finding a mate has been a key goal of all sexually dimorphic species since time immemorial. It is not a "new" thing. You could learn this if you read almost any poetry, history or prose made by humans.
>>24842601>This emphasis on women as the source of happiness and their absence as the source of misery is pretty newGenesis literally tells how God created Eve because Adam was miserable without a partner.
>>24842803>be god>be perfect>but not really, because if you were really perfect then you would be serene unto yourself with nothing to prove, and not feel it necessary to create anything or anyone else to show them that you have nothing to prove>so creation, the first mistake>adam is miserable, second mistake (why not just configure adam so that he's perfectly content on his own? Seems this imperfect man has something in common with this imperfect god)>okay let's give Adam a gf>she's weaker, even easier to trick than adam and just generally looks ridicuous if you can be objective about it, also she nags adam>but adam's sexual attraction overrides all that, somehow god gets that part right>they get kicked out over their imperfections that god had it in his power to prevent at multiple stages in the first place, but doesn't because otherwise we don't have a human drama, a story, a movie>wars, disasters, worse and worse and worse and...The idea that a perfect god felt it necessary to create anything at all is an absurdity, and is nothing else than a backwards projection of the human psychological need for interaction with others onto some god. Various anthropomorphic properties (imperfections) are thus attributed to a perfect god, in spite of the theologian's best efforts to deny this. Obviously, the theologians must have thought about and addressed the above observations at some point (why create anything at all). And just as plainly, they arrived at replies which are as unsatisfying as they are incorrect.
>>24842777I don’t disagree at all, but after you find a mate as a human there arises an enormous amount of misery that no other species has to deal with. Finding a mate is like how every kid thinks things will be great once they’re grown up. >>24842803Genesis says Adam lost paradise because of Eve and was sentenced to toil for the rest of his now finite life
>>24842480>Having never discovered qualities in myself that might attract someone elseWouldn't this only be true at minimum if you were homosexual? Autism claims another.
>>24842480Normiefication of society. Culture used to flow downwards from oddball intellectuals and aristocrats. Now our managerial bourgeois elite decided culture should be based on the lowest common denominator and repackaged trailer trash culture for society at large.
>>24843281Being lonely it's a symptom of a sick society.
>>24842514Its clear in Pessoa's writing that he was a romantic and he had a romanticized view of the Portuguese empire and its glory days. He felt a lot of melancholy over how far the country had fallen since then. He even believed in the idea of the 5th empire which is a schizo Portuguese idea that says that one day the Portuguese will return because it is destined to do so.
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>>24842601Casanova definitely in his own words raped a few women, including a blood relative, and a servant who stopped the rape by musically farting every time Casanova thrust.
>>24842514I live here and it's still miserable by western European standards but it was relatively worse during Pessoa's life. He lived through the first republic which had 30 prime ministers in 16 years. The country is still recovering since the fall of the monarchy.
>>24846824And that servant’s name? Albert Einstein!
