That thing nobody understands about you. That book that explains it. Match me up.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR)
The Critique of Pure Reason.
Incy wincy spider
It’s the Myth of Sisyphus for the under-fives.
One must imagine incy, not wincy
Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle might not explain it, but could add valuable context.
“They’re not rocks Marie!!”
…ok, maybe some of them are, but they’re really cool!
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series and the John Dies at the End series
both 10/10s mixing gut wrenching existentialism and laugh out loud comedy
tbh I probably wouldn’t say I’m into comedy writing in general but those two and Terry Pratchett are the only writers to ever make me bust out laughing in response to words on a page
I’ve lost count of the number of times and number of formats in which i’ve consumed The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and i’ve loved it every time.
- The Demon-Haunted World, by Carl Sagan
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, by Susan Cain
- Thinking in Systems: A Primer, by Donella H. Meadows and Diana Wright
- Getting to Where You Are, by Steven Harrison
- Journey Without Goal, by Chögyam Trungpa
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camut. Absurdism/it philosophically examines whether one should commit suicide.
I started reading The Myth of Sisyphus because I’m interested in absurdism but haven’t read much other philosophy apart from some of the classic Stoic books. I found it very dense and hard to get through the first parts with references to philosophers I hadn’t read, does it get easier to read?
No.
Also that book is extremely easy to read for philosophy. It is not very dense at all. You are in for a world of hurt if you try any legit philosophy. Camus is like the YA version of philosophy.
Not OP but yes, if you can get through the dialogue with Kierkegaard the rest is pretty digestible. That said, you might get more out of it if you’ve got a basic foundation in existentialism and nihilism first. A lot of what makes absurdism interesting and important is its contrasts with other philosophies.
It does. Would recommend just skimming the first section as far as when you hit a reference to a philosopher you don’t care about. Once past that it’s a beautiful book.
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The anarchist-faq will get you most of the way there, and the K-On manga will fill in the gaps.
Realm of the elderlings, I mess my own life up through anxiety and overthinking, reading about fitz doing it makes me feel better about myself
Gentleman bastards, spurts of false confidence carry me through my days lol
Not as much a book, but the documentary Dominion. If someone can watch that and not understand reasons for going vegan if not choosing to do so themselves, I seriously question their moral compass.
The best part about being vegan is I’ll never have to watch that doco lol
Same. I went vegan before watching it. Tried doing so and only made it about 15 min in. So hard to watch.
Killed by a Traffic Engineer by Wes Marshall.
“Crime and Punishment”. Doing something amoral only to find out I have morals.
Brothers Karamazov is way better.
It’s all subjective. I really liked that one too but C&P hit me harder.
I know everything I need to know just from the titles mate
