Books for NEETs?
>>25431096The Analects
>>25431096oblomov
>>25431096Gargantua and Pantagruel
>>25431096Philosophy in general.>>25431133I'm at the part where Oblomov meets Olga and I can't relate to him anymore.
When I was a NEET I read Zhuangzi a lotA carpenter and an apprentice are walking along a path when they see a gigantic tree. The apprentice admires it but sees his master doesn't even give it a second look. The master tells the apprentice that the wood would be useless for everything, a ship would sink, a coffin would rot, as a tool it'd break, etc. >Back home that night, the tree appeared to Carpenter Stoney in a dream. It said to him, “What do you want to compare me to, one of those cultivated trees? The hawthorn, the pear, the orange, the rest of those fructiferous trees and shrubs—when their fruit is ripe they get plucked, and that is an insult. Their large branches are bent, their small branches are pruned. Thus do their abilities embitter their lives. That is why they die young, failing to fully live out their Heaven-given lifespans. They batter themselves with the vulgar conventions of the world, as do all the other things of the world. As for me, I’ve been working on being useless for a long time. It almost killed me, but I’ve finally managed it—and it is of great use to me! If I were useful, do you think I could have grown to be so great?
Reverend Insanity.
>>25431333epic
>>25431096whatever literature excites and intrigues you, whatever captures your imagination and reminds you of the range of human experience.if i'm supposed to assume that by 'books for neets' you mean 'literature that broods on failure and metaphysically glorifies loneliness and depression' then you disgust me, don't drag me down to your level.
>>25431272>I can't relate to him anymore.there was a whole thread about how zoomers are too self-absorbed to read third-person prose, and this is a manifestation of the same sickness.
>>25431357I have no problem reading in third-person but I am indeed self-absorbed. I would even go further and say I'm self-obsessed. How do I fix this?
>>25431378>How do I fix this?just keep reading fiction dude. it's a faculty you can grow over time. this diagram should help clarify things.
>>25431393instead of the vibration metaphor you could also think of the lines as like tunnels you traverse, like in a d&d dungeon. in fig1 the new book presents mostly dead ends that don't loop back into the rest of the tunnels that compose your personal dungeon. while in fig2 several circuits get created that you can run around in without getting stuck - freedom of movement, the pleasures of speed, that's what reading is about.
