It’s crazy how based and true this Schopenhauer quote is. Almost all books are a huge waste of time, there are only a very few select works of literature that are actually worth reading. This is a very important part of growing up and maturing btw
>>25220018sure, but it's very hard to know in advance what will be worth reading for you personally. established canons are of no use here. your personal canon only takes on coherence retrospectively, when you're looking back over your reading and trying to figure out what linked those moments of the greatest and most mysterious intensity.
>>25220018Okay but what happens when the general public becomes ultra retarded and politics turns into another version of WWE? Their general interests aren't worth engaging in anymore. This society is doomed, I'm escaping to my books.
>>25220163This is exactly the fundamental problem that I’m talking about. Books and literature have become inaccessible, pretentious, meaningless, and too “elite” for the average person. Thus this leads to a decay in overall culture
>>25220018>life is shortI actually think life is pretty long. If life was actually short then people wouldn't have needed to invent entertainment. Niggas say "life is short" and then spend 8 hours a day scrolling tiktok, yeah okay bro>avoid reading bad books by never reading any books at allSame tier of advice as "Avoid making mistakes by never making any decisions ever", that is to say, absolutely terrible and a rejection of life
>>25220282the average person is so fucking retarded that anything written above a grade 9 level is considered "elitist and pretentious" to them
>>25220018Nobody is right about everything, but Schopenhauer comes damn close.
>>25220018I agree. Having a soul means being able to filter hype and memes when you see them. It's good to finish a bad book you've started, though, if only to be more informed about the authors and recommenders you should avoid in the future.
>>25220043Where is that post/article from? I like it.
>>25220413Read moar.
>don't waste your times on things you dont think you will enjoywow what insight
>>25220634You too!
>>25220613from famed game designer stephen gilmurphy: https://harmonyzone.org/blog/posts/dog%20mural/
>>25220707Is he working on another game or has he returned to his real passion, dumpster diving in dublin?
>>25220634Plato, Schopenhauer, the Ancient Greeks, Shakespeare, dune, self-help. There’s nothing else I need to read.
>>25220734Plato, Aristotle, greek theater, Kant, Schopenhauer, POE and lovecraft
>>25220018yeah, but it is not an excuse not to read as some people treat it.
>>25220043>>25220613>>25220707vaguely k-punk esque
>>25220018that's not what he said at all. impressive that nobody has pointed that out yet. you're all retarded faggots
>>25220018And to add to it learn how to read too. I wasted so much time rereading books because I read them, never took any notes, and with time forgot what they were trying to say, besides some vague ideas.
>>25220018>read better booksWow, giga high IQ right there.
>>25220018This might also apply to the ways that writers feel about writing and about art or ‘the art life’ or something like that That joyce is writing partially with that in mind and those pieces are models or might be regarded from that perspective partly as mutiple epigones of taciturn succinctness as are the writings of becket and heraclitus and archilochus and wittgenstein also and hume and also although that nietzsche said or another individual said that schopenhauer’s philosophy as that could be said to stand was made by schopenhauer before schopenhauer had turned 25, the philosophy to the globe as representationality and ‘intelligibility’ and ratio and the mind so that schopenhauer partly contradicts schopenhauer
>>25220043is he talking about Striker?
>>25222598Oh right, silly me. who said this in Parerga and Paralipomena, could you tell me???
>>25220340>I actually think life is pretty long.Because you live in a social media bubble and don't have any friends. People are dying around you 24/7.
>>25224934I have no idea what you're trying to say with your strange assumptions, do you have friends that are constantly dying? Because I don't.People dying has nothing to do with how long or short life is anyway, everything dies. If people lived for 2000 years there would still be the same amount of people being born and dying each day.
>>25220018That's still relative. He still read more than most people and when he wasn't reading he was thinking. As a percentage most books are bad, but since there are so many boojs you will still find enough good ones.If you aren't reading, that's only the right decision if you find something better to do and most forms of entertainment are even worse.
>>25224928>he who writes for fools always finds a large publicHeheh he’s talking about Hegel.
>>25224962>do you have friends that are constantly dying? Because I don't.Because you don't have any.>People dying has nothing to do with how long or short life is anyway, everything diesThis is a stupid to say. Child mortality, civilian deaths from war, and cancer are consistently killing people before their possible life expectancy. There being too many preventable, random deaths happening is what makes life unnecessarily short.
>>25220018Ive figured this out at some point and for that reason have not wasted my time reading Schopenhauer. Godspeed to you if it took this miserable dweeb for you to figure that out though.
>>25225004How many friends do you personally have that have died from war or early cancer? What you're saying doesn't make any sense. The only way you'd actually think war deaths personally affected you is if you spend all day watching the news or on social media, is your entire point just pure projection or what lmao
