Is there a solution to underground man syndrome or is there no return when you are reflexively attacking of everything and feel there is no viable path outward?
just appreciate life, dude.
>>8020335
isn't this just like saying 'just be happy' it's not like a switch that can be turned on and off
>>8020343
dude just turn your brain off lol
>>8020343
you don't need to be happy to appreciate something
>>8020346
you do, appreciation is the capacity to enjoy (experience good feelings from) something more or less. if that capacity is dead within you then you can't do it
>>8020352
you can derive aesthetic enjoyment while being sad, you can salute righteous moral decisions while being sad. not an argument
>>8020362
some can, not everyone can, depends on depth of depression and the individual quite obviously. not an argument
go somewhere pretty
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Dosto would advocate conversion. Because he was a plebeian hack.
>>8020330
Well Underground Man itself is basically an essay proposed by Dostoevsky to argue against the trend of Rationalism.
The underground man forced himself and pride himself to be a rational man where most of the time life itself is irrational.
I think it's already clear that Dostoevsky wanted to not dwell into rationality too much. Everything is in moderation
Just bee your'self
>>8020346
He didn't say you needed to.
>>8020330
Yeah theres hope but thats like trying to quit smoking. Damn near impossible when you're surrounded by other smokers.
I am currently an Underground Man albeit without even a small group of friends. I am filled with bitterness and hatred and I am very sensitive and defensive but I also recognize that these things aren't helping me in life, however I have zero intentions of becoming less sensitive than I am because my sensitivity has granted me the ability to appreciate life in a way I don't feel many people I've known do. My personality consists of an accumulation of contradictions but I really do feel at ease with myself in a way I haven't since I was around thirteen, which is strange considering back then I was a popular, funny, energetic, outgoing, loud, romantically alluring guy and now I'm a reclusive, friendless, sullen, repressed, unsmiling, routine-obsessed autist but still I feel like I've rid myself of many more undesirable traits than I've gained during this process. I go between barely existing and existing only as a detached analytical observer of my own thoughts and behaviour to an obsessed, passionate, aspergic weirdo who throws himself into a world which overwhelms him from all sides.
>>8021675
That is the most shit reading of Notes from Underground I've ever seen.
