Why do normies seem to be happier than me, despite being well-read, intellectual, and having broad knowledge in 36 different fields?
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Why do normies seem to be happier than me, despite being well-read, intellectual, and having broad knowledge in 36 different fields?
Normies are shielded from the dark truth of the world that we aristocrats of the soul must carry on our shoulders on a daily basis.
Cope. At least one of you must be LARPing. Happiness is the purpose of life (read Aristotle), so if you aren't happy then you are doing something wrong. Reading intellectual books because you have something to prove isn't going to make you happy.
aristotle thought cum was stored in the brain and that it was a boys duty to take it in the ass from old crusty men. happiness is the cope. life is suffering, we live in hell, pain is revolution
this seems right to me, and I wish it didn't.
Wrong.
Oh don’t be mistaken anon I’m incredibly fulfilled with my life, I’m just saying the average normie isn’t.
>Happiness is the purpose of life
sorry sweaty but that has been deboonked by science
>read Aristotle
no
Would you accept to be tied your whole life to a matrix-style machine that entraps you in a happy simulation? Would you accept to be kept in a sort of semi-coma where happy pills are fed to you for your whole life?
Most people would say no, and that shows that they don't really believe happiness is the purpose of life. That this stupid belief seems now widespread (at least on the surface) is just the result of modern cheating mindset. Happiness should just be a signal that tells you you are doing right.
I genuinely wish I could shit on your face
rape and kill this Black person instantaneously. May you boil in liquid shit for all eternity.
You carry nothing but resentment and trivia.
Precisely because they lack all of those qualities.
They're content with sex, netflix, socials, e-shopping and stable job.
It's that last one which is my Achilles heal.
Because they are ignorant. The more you know, the more depressing life becomes.
Average normies are woefully depressed. They post facades of happiness online to social goy media.
cognitive bias and alienation is leading you to make a false assumption. where is the proof that normies are happy? how are you quantifying happiness in a way that allows you to compare yours to other people’s? what makes you happy is shitposting on a collaborative israeli/us/chinese/russian psy op imageboard for attention and gooning to troony BBC porn, and it’s possible that you experience a level of ecstasy from doing this than anyone you would consider a “normie”. yet you are still particularly normie yourself for not recognizing the endless pit of desire that causes you to pine for things you don’t have instead of appreciating and loving the things you do.
life is simply sucking a series of logs of shit out of andy sixx’s butthole. we must imagine anon happy.
I read Critique of Pure reason, Being and Time, Ethica, Philosophical Investigations, The Order of Things, Of Grammatology, and Phenomenology of Perception.
Still a kissless hugless virgin here.
Reading more philosophy books is going to make it even more difficult to get woman.
Should I keep reading the book and go for Phenomenology of the Spirit, or should I try to meet a girl?
What should I do in order to meet a woman, anyway?
focus in philosophy not holes ,anon
fellow phil chad here. treat women and philosophy as separate domains. they are rarely, if ever going to intersect well or for a long time. If they're not polluted by fem thinking, they're going to give up phl outside of the uni environment.
Meeting women is easy, especially at a university or as part of some mutual interest. Beyond that, you meet women all the time in public. However, women are very binary to whether they like you or not. They're not capable of saying 'oh he's a 6 or he's an 8". They exclusively think in terms of whether you make them feel 100% good or not. The thing that trips up most guys is trying to recognize what it is that makes a woman feel good. You start thinking in terms of interests, or conversations, or good human activities. This is a waste of time.
Women crave social interaction and attention from someone who is socially dominant. The only thing they want and respond to is talking to someone who socially dominates them and others around them. There is absolutely no substitute for this. PUA/conmen/fratlads realize this and LARP as a socially dominant guy long enough to frick b***hes. People look down on the, but the hilarious part is that LARPing like that is the first step into actually becoming a confident, socially dominant dude. It's tier1/novice level of social confidence. So: do the basic things to fix your appearance. Work out for a year. Buy some nice clothes, get a haircut. Start LARPing in ALL social situations and frick up as much as humanly possible and cringe at yourself so many times you become numb to it. It's no different to how moronic you were when you started out reading.
Being into philosophy and IQfy stuff can be an asset for getting women, provided you also have style and don't look like an ogre.
Just play the pretentious intellectual stereotype you see in nigflix shows and your average normie woman will love you for it
However, don't overdo the larp, only speak about stuff you actually know because its possible the woman is only larping as a normie and if you find a lit woman accidentally you're golden since those types only really date IQfy men (as long as they are good-looking ofc) and there really aren't that many well-read men around anymore
For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
(1) You are making the very common fallacy of people chasing happyness by substitute means. The human body is optimized to give happyness for people who fulfill their biological imperative - meaning to have a wife, to have children and to have relationships in a community. People with lots of kids are often happy even if they are poor.
Chasing wealth, status, power, wisdom - none of these things will bring lasting happyness, because the biology of the body is designed to give emotional rewards for sex, relationships and child rearing.
(2) Moderation: The principle of moderation reigns supreme once again. People often make the mistake of chasing one ideal, but in order to do this you sacrifice everything else. If you optimize in intellect, you lose out in willpower and socializing for example. There is no path that provides all, and so one day after having chased a single minded focus for many years, you realize you are alone and sacrificed everything else to get there.
Instead one should seek to keep all parts of life in balance. A little bit of wisdom, a little bit of action, a little bit of novelty.
A balance of relationships, career and personal pursuits.
In Hindu philosophy of the Gunas:
Each of the gunas have importance and should be in balance.
Sattva has value because wisdom produces good fruits from action.
Rajas has value because action brings purpose to life.
Tamas has purpose because the excitement of the unknown counters the drudgery and stagnation of omniscient sattva.
Yep was going to say.
Solomon has yet another banger: Wisdom is found in the house of sorrow.
>the biology of the body is designed to give emotional rewards for sex, relationships and child rearing.
So to build on that ...
Many people would get more fulfillment from a pet dog that makes them laugh every day, because it fulfills that human emotional need for relationships and nurturing.
But single minded pursuit of career would not bring them that happyness, as they are far more likely to lose happyness because exhausting themselves with overwork, and burning out relationships in the process. But it may give them a sense of purpose and acomplishment, which is also a valuable part of life - but it is different from happyness.
What are the 36 fields? I need to test you first, you're probably larping
List the fields! The people want the fields!
It is too time-consuming, so the answer is no. Sorry, pal.
Seems like you're unhappy simply because you are a lazy moron pseud, convincing himself of being an intellectual without ever having made one proper intellectual effort beyond browsing wikipedia. Normies are happier because they usually don't waste their life and however limited potential marinating in their own fetid juices.
Normies are literally a pile of cope, what the frick are you talking about?
>divorce as soon as kids grow and leave home
>regular drinking
>religion
>and so on
I didn't even got into the ones that literally take meds to be happy and function
This, and don't forget about fake friends, STDs from one night stands and hookers, batshit insane exes, credit card debt, toxic family members they refuse to separate themselves from, obesity, falling for scams and meme investments, having awful jobs that they refuse to quit, gambling, shitty landlords and roommates...being a normie is suffering. And coping.
Theres a part of me that doesn't want to give airtime to the midwit trap of thinking the reason I feel depressed is because I am so absolutely brilliant and everyone else around me is a trog.
I think that way of thinking is wrong for starters but also detrimental to living a happy life. A conclusion I have been coming to is that most people aren't stupid or evil they are just so bogged down with paying taxes, making sure their kids don't get abducted by a pedophile walking home from school, dealing with a fat hog of a wife munching, squealing and grunting in ecstasy as she devours yet another three course meal on the living room couch.
If you think normies are happy then I have got news for you, they are not.
As shit as I feel sometimes about my life I am grateful I am not the guy I described.
ignorance is bliss, simple as that.
They have a coherent belief system that gives them the sense of responsibility needed to drive them to do things that give them a sense of accomplishment and belonging.
because knowing more can be a curse
Because you, like all the other coping homosexuals in this thread, are a loser.
You may be a self-proclaimed intellectual but normalgays and women have Social IQ, they can chat about random topics and feign interest, they can make jokes and laugh at jokes even if they don't find them funny, they can groom their looks and style their clothes in an appealing manner, they can analyse a situation and be tactful so as to not appear rude, they can form meaningful relationships with likeminded normalgays and provide emotional support to each other. I mean sure they may never have heard of Heidegger or Wittgenstein, they may not be aware of how a Bodhisattva could attain Buddhahood or how Rain-In-The-Face ate Custer's heart, but they have knowledge of how to survive in the modern world by being a useful little cog, supported by other useful little cogs, l replenished daily with Starbucks coffee and fancy liquor and Friends rewatches and Harry Potter movies
I have yet to meet a single normie that can do any of this. Their most defining trait is their profound inability to step outside of themselves. There are degrees of course, but in the worst cases you try to talk to them about ANYTHING that is outside of their extremely small wheelhouse (even something banal like a movie you saw or your friend's new car, typical small talk shit) and they just stare at you. Like not even a response besides a "hm" and a deer-in-the-headlights stare because you fried their brain by reminding them that the world exists outside of the tiny section of it they live in.
True normies aren't just stupid or boring or whatever. The really damning aspect of normiehood is how fundamentally incurious they are about other people, the world, and even themselves, which completely bars them from being "socially intelligent". Itlimits them to only the most superficial of interactions and relationships, because you NEED to be curious about someone else to connect with them in a meaningful way. This is the litmus test for whether someone is worth spending any time on.
People who cope about normies being better off because "ignorance is bliss" or "social intelligence matters most" don't have a clear idea of what normies are really like. Their inner lives are nonexistent. They have no meaningful relationships. Their "hobbies" are almost always just media consumption. These traits are like magnets for depression. If you have no meaningful relationships, ambitions, thoughts, or emotions, you aren't happier because you're ignorant of everything good in life. That idea is moronic. They mainly just suppress the unhappiness one way or another and pretend everything is fine. If you have enough of a soul to recognize how hollow most people are then you should be thanking god, not cursing the burden of having an actual inner life.
> The really damning aspect of normiehood is how fundamentally incurious they are about other people
This isn't damning, most other people are subhuman and I really don't give a shit about them, their existence, or their interests, but I will feign interest to be polite
>the world, and even themselves
yeah this part is correct
Social and emotional intelligence is not a meme, it is very real and it's pathognomonic of normalgays. Why do you think anons fawn over the goyslop girl? She's not doing anything out of the ordinary. She's merely ordering a meal from a street vendor. And yet, because she's a normalgay, she is not shy of the camera recording her, rather it imparts confidence in her. And you see her small gestures, making small talk, nodding her head, smiling, it's all completely banal and comes naturally to the normalgay, but for the average anon here she's nothing short of a goddess.
i think anons fawn over the goyslop girl because they are touch-starved genetic trash and would fawn over any conventionally attractive woman
>for the average anon here she's nothing short of a goddess.
Correct, unfortunately
kizuna ai is a good girl and would never say that
Is that who she is?
I do not watch tranime I just hate ugly people
You're defeating your own point by focusing on how this prostitute affects the psyches of moronic NEET homosexuals on IQfy instead of, you know, actual people. You also create a false dichotomy between said neet homosexuals and the archetypal stacy/normie. Social intelligence is absolutely real, but it doesn't mean getting caught in a meme by chance and living rent free in the minds of shut-ins for a few weeks. It means being able to understand and interact with others in a constructive, generative way. My point was and still is that most true normies lack these abilities. I see what you mean, but like a lot of people on this board, I think you lack perspective on what the lives of normies are actually like.
>moronic NEET homosexuals on IQfy instead of, you know, actual people
so there's a dichotomy between the two?
>You also create a false dichotomy between said neet homosexuals and the archetypal stacy/normie.
????
the definition of a dichotomy is a division where everything is either in one camp or the other. This is not how the division between normies and non normies is. It's a spectrum. There are people with a wide mix of traits. The point was that your example being based and a semi-popular meme and its effect on only the people at the extreme NEET end of the spectrum was not a good example of the social IQ you claim normies have. Obviously there is a difference between the two extremes. That's not the same thing as a dichotomy.
but you created a dichotomy as well when you differentiated NEET homosexuals on IQfy from, you know, "actual people"
social and emotional intelligence are just a meme made up to make women think they are equal to men on an intellectual level
>they can chat about random topics and feign interest, they can make jokes and laugh at jokes even if they don't find them funny, they can groom their looks and style their clothes in an appealing manner, they can analyse a situation and be tactful so as to not appear rude, they can form meaningful relationships with likeminded normalgays and provide emotional support to each other.
This is just basic common sense when it comes to interacting with humans you don't know well.
If you've got brains, just use them to manipulate people into liking you, it really isn't that hard
>This is just basic common sense when it comes to interacting with humans you don't know well.
And yet somehow woman and salesmen can do it much better than STEM nerds.
Women are good at it because unless they are subhuman levels of ugly everyone is automatically nice to them. And salesmen train to do that shit
For STEM nerds who want to get over social anxiety, here's a real tip:
Don't do martial arts or whatever PUA gurus tell you to boost confidence. I mean, do martial arts and lift weights, but do it for your own health, not to "have confidence".
To get that confidence, unironically join a dancing class. That removes your inhibitions like nothing else once you force yourself to do it a few times.
That, and recite poetry out loud for a while
Trust me, it works
>IQfy
>dangling participle
I hate it hear
>Why do normies seem to be happier than me
Normies having been chasing happyness (ie hedonism) their whole life, while you have been chasing wisdom and understanding your whole life.
Some time in highschool your friends probably said "hey want smoke a joint with us, then play some video games", and you thought they were hedonist losers and went home to browse internet forums instead in the pursuit of knowledge.
Now 10 years later they have friends and a wife, and you have wisdom but no friends.
>LE TOTALLY ON TOPIC LITERATURE THREAD
you missed your ration of prozac
>broad knowledge in 36 different fields
maybe next time try specific knowledge in one field
This is some incel forums shit kek
here's a tip gaygolis put down the book and pick up a blunt every once in a while
>normies are happy!
Move on from this moronic populism.
Because they’re not self important impotent homosexuals like you are you scum of the earth. Get out of this board and NEVER RETURN.