Where are /lit/ people in real life? How do I get a book club of people as autistic as me and the people on /lit/? I don't mean faggots who read Cormac McFaggot or retards who vaguely like Socrates. I mean the schizo who learned Greek to read Proclus in the original while working at a taco restaurant and not getting laid for 14 years. I only want severely autistic friends.I will never, ever use Discord for any reason. I will never talk to anyone who uses Twitter for any reason. I want /lit/ friends in real life. I can't take it anymore. All the "smart" people I know are STEM PhDs who watch retarded documentaries about quantum physics and then get high and spitball wacky ideas in their “free time”. It's NOT ENOUGH. Reality itself seems thin and alien. I joined a Plato reading group and it was just 120 IQ midwit normies who wanted to sprinkle a dash of Plato on their otherwise normal lives. IT'S NOT ENOUGH. I don't want to talk about basic bitch podcast Stoicism once every few months with a laser biochemist who hates talking about his own work and doesn't give a shit about science or anything but ordering junk on amazon and exercising. I don't want to talk to WOMEN about Jane Austen because I read Jane Austen just to have something real to talk about and I was excited they also read Jane Austen, only to find out that they are "1917"-watching mental children who read Jane Austen the same way they watch "Severance." I don't want to read Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason so I can talk to some positivist faggot who thinks it’s about empirical cognition, just to find out his entire reading is based on reddit posts. I don't want to talk to “””atheists””” who parrot Hitchens and haven’t read a word of Augustine, because they think the RETARDED EVANGELICALISM they were raised in is the summit of theism. I DON'T WANT TO TALK TO SOI-DISANT PHILOSOPHERS WHOSE KNOWLEDGE OF EVERYTHING THEY BUILD THEIR GAY IDENTITY ON COMES FROM SUMMARIES AND DUMBASS FUCKING BLOGS AND REDDIT!!!I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!! I HATE THIS PLACE! I NEED TO BREAK FREE! I WANT TO TALK TO A FAT SOCIALLY ABNORMAL GUY WHO LEARNED SANSKRIT BECAUSE A THREAD ON 4CHAN TOLD HIM IT WAS COOL!! I WANT TO MEET THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN TRYING TO READ THE ENTIRE ST. JOHN'S BOOK LIST OR BLOOM'S CANON WHILE LIVING WITH THEIR MOM!!! NO MORE QUIRKY PEOPLE, NO MORE INTERNET-BRAINED NORMIES AND NORMIFIED INTERNET TEACHING GAY MILLENIALS, I WANT REAL ACTUAL SCHIZOS AND I WANT THEM FUCKING NOW!!!! WHERE DID ALL THE REAL HUMANS GO?!?!?!? WHERE'S THE GUY TRYING TO WIN A FIELD'S MEDAL TO THE TOTAL DETRIMENT OF HIS PERSONAL LIFE WHILE PHONING IN A MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEGREE BECAUSE HIS BROWN DAD WANTS HIM TO "GET A REAL JOB?" I KNEW HIM ONCE!!! HE WAS MORE INTERESTING THAN THESE BLOG-READING, PODCAST-LISTENING, TWITTER- AND DISCORD-USING FUCKING FAGGOTS!!!!!!!!
>>25184055unfortunately the answer will make you very upset graduate school
>>25184055>All the "smart" people I know are STEM PhDs who watch retarded documentaries about quantum physics and then get high and spitball wacky ideas in their “free timeImagine being so idiotic as to believe literature is more intellectually demanding than STEM
>>25184059This honestly. You’re not going to find many people in normal life who care about philosophy and literature so much outside of grad school and there they’re a dime a dozen. The op has this fantasy of the guy who works fast food and teaches himself Greek - people like that do exist they’re just incredibly rare.
>>25184055I use to think I want this as well but then I start getting jealous of their achievements and so I start to hate them. All my friends are loser goycattles.
>tell educated friend I’m reading Heidegger’s introduction to metaphysics>”Whoah wasn’t he a Nazi? But then again anyone can have good ideas lol”I relate to OP.
>>25184110it do be like that fr fr
>>25184055The ideal you have in your brain of a failure at life who is autistically dedicated to literature or philosophy does exist it’s just too rare for you to meet one irl. I had a patient in a mental hospital who worked retail and was trying to read the entirety of Victorian literature. Very nice and intelligent guy but good luck finding him irl.
>>25184110tbf to that friend, how much of his philosophy's inextricable with nazism is a major question of contemporary heidegger scholarship >>25184075>>25184121>>25184059this, most people who care about literature/philosophy self-select into social circles where literature/philosophy are important. irl this is basically two places, graduate school and brooklyn. the mythical /lit/ figure of the schizoid autist who works as a waiter while writing his bergsonian analysis of proust is incredibly rare + you'll never meet him because he's a schizoid autist. if you don't want to go to grad school or move to brooklyn, your best bet is your nearest city's arts and music scene
>>25184055you could make a xmpp or element server and I'd join it but ngl my autistic fixation is science fiction and the occasional historical fiction novel like salammbo so I probably wouldn't be good company.
>>25184055This hit me in the feels a little bit. I agree that in general “normies” are just dabbling in philosophy, they’re not sitting alone in their rooms for hours studying the way at least a few of the effortposters here would seem to do. I could illustrate the problem with an anecdote. I used to always go to the same corner store by my house but it is ghetto, someone asked me for money then followed me down the street threatening me, “I hate white people! I hope you break your fucking neck!” Not the first time either. So I decide to start going to a corner store in the college area, an extra 20 minutes’ walk to avoid that. But there they judge me, they know I’m not a normie, my purchase day after day is emphatically not normie. I see it in their eyes, they judge me for living on beer and peanuts. So I’m caught between judgment by uppity pseuds, or violence by local riffraff. That’s the autisto-schizophrenic dilemma. You’re too weird to get on with your own class, and too educated to get on with the lower class. You’re also maybe too educated to get on with the normies, too, in a way. George Gissing is an author who writes about this btw and his novels are miserably sad. I don’t have a solution. I’ve had stupid arguments with so many anons here but I’d give up a finger to be friends with any of you, even the most retarded, simply because you give a shit about ideas for their own sake.
>>25184055What do you expect to get out of such a social interaction? It sounds as if you want to know a Henry Cavendish style Asperger just for the peculiarity/ eccentricity value of such a thing. Any sort of hidden meaning inside of books like those can be found by reading them yourself. You don’t need a STEM guy who reads self help or the reverse either. >>25184140I am almost exactly the guy you describe in your post btw. Ive never had any higher schooling outside HS and myMath IQ is 65… I just don’t see what the OP wants, besides attention obviously.
I see a whole lot of resentment ITT.
>>25184055I have been here long enough to remember the sort and I'm still here.I'm not near as bright as anyone you describe though, so I wouldn't be able to form part of your secret club.I really tried learning ancient greek, and do know enough to impress some people. To "impress" as no one really cares if you know some greek. And it is so much easier to find translations, and so time consuming to learn a language.Time goes by so fast you quickly stop being an edgy teenager, and if you lack the talent (or audacity) to make it, you realize the only thing that stops you from killing yourself or total insanity is becoming a wageslave.Actually, I don't think anyone can make it in this time and age. Have you seen the best sellers? The public does not reward talent, but mediocrity. I guess these people who aimed high either became wageslaves or killed themselves or just married. Who knows.As long as the world punishes genius, we will all continue to be mediocre or die.
>>25184203Fuck you dude I graduated college with honors. I have been offered promotions multiple times at my blue collar job and turned them down, didn’t even apply. I also intentionally sought a no-skill job because I am so disgusted with the likes of you. I’d rather be poor than engage with normie society. I know you think it’s cope (you’d really give up ENDLESS AMAZON PACKAGES??) but it is completely true. I hate you and everything you believe in and I hope you die in a fucking fire.
>>25184055People like that are probably more common than you might think, they're just very reclusive and you'd rarely ever encounter them outside of the internet.
>>25184055I feel like a loser doing it, but check out meetup __dot__ com and look for book club. You join the group on the website and then show up to the meeting.I'm near DC and I just found a history of philosophy book club (last 3 authors are Vico, Montesquieu, & Pascal), a classic literature club (last 3 readings are To The Lighthouse, Emily Dickinson poems, and Stoner (lol))... there's also a history book club and a lit fic meetup in a local suburb. There's probably something near you provided you live close to a big metro area.
