Who else started to use literature to awaken their emotions after not being able to feel for years?I cried yesterday from a story plot but i was not able to cry at all for years previously.
plotfag, eh?
Also the erotic fiction is helping me gain back my sexdrive that was dead for 10 years
im not a retard like you so no.i just read so that i have something to look forward to
>>25078122Against nature - Joric-Karl Huysmans.
>>25078122I mostly read the Old Testament for the transsexual pornography; Cormac McCarthy for reader versus writer rape erotic fiction (Nabokov is too easy to overpower); and erotic fan fiction because it is easier than Hume.
>>25078122I've had this experience with Hermann Hesse. Every time I've read one of his books for the first time has been at a pivotal moment in my life. My first book by him was Siddhartha. I was like thirteen and had never read anything beyond YA. It basically changed my entire mind and make me a sentient being with an internal monologue and theory of mind.
>>25078122books don't do it for me, only music.
Good for you anon, this sounds like a very positive and healthy thing to do
This doesn't work for me. I always end up remembering this passage: >The part that got me was, there was a lady sitting next to me that cried all throughthe goddam picture. The phonier it got, the more she cried. You'd have thought she did itbecause she was kindhearted as hell, but I was sitting right next to her, and she wasn't.She had this little kid with her that was bored as hell and had to go to the bathroom, butshe wouldn't take him. She kept telling him to sit still and behave himself. She was aboutas kindhearted as a goddam wolf. You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes outover phony stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.I'm not kidding
>>25078434I feel this and hate it. Music is just a bastardization of poetry mixed with ooga booga cavemen noises that awaken some ancient dopamine. There's nothing intellectual about it and yet so many pseuds make it their personality.
>>25078906Have you ever heard of classical music?
>>25078906it has absolutely nothing to do with lyrics for me, half the music I listen to is instrumental anyway.
>>25078122I have a theory that if you read fiction you develop empathy by being able to see how other people live their lives. You also get emotional flexibility by experiencing emotions in a simulation. So fiction is a tool that can help you develop advanced social skills.
>>25078122I've cried while reading a philosopher just chaining very specific ideas that I had over the years, but yet I hadn't found those ideas anywhere before; it was like finding an intellectual friend for the first time.
>>25078956Fuck this is sad commentary on your generation, not fiction.
>>25078906>bastardization of poetry mixed with ooga booga cavemen noisesyou have an incredibly narrow concept of music. maybe try growing up and listening to something that isn't top 40 radio.
The more time I spend here the more I realize you're all women and that I deeply despise all women.
>>25079052no need to chud out
>>25079108Any man who doesn't at this point is a traitor to all humanity.
>>25079052cringe, have erotic-fictional-roleplay you loser
>>25078975Comments like this validate anons point regarding the value of fiction. Most interactions irl and online are shallow and guarded on both sides because we live in a low trust society. Fiction is an invitation to explore the vulnerabilities of another person, even if it’s just simulated. Fiction tends to offer more to empathize with than what you get from real people. The fact you’re focused on generational differences, rather than a common appreciation for fiction, speaks volumes about the state of fracture in society.
>>25080230The generational difference was we didn't need fiction to plug a modern hole in relating to other people. Fiction was escape from stupidity not a substitute for human interaction (that's what 4chan is for).
>>25080241It doesn’t sound like you need much at all from anyone or anything besides amusement or distraction.
