SCHOPENHAUER: Being Alone (How to Deal With Society)

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I wonder if Schopenhauer was a coomer doomer? Masturbating will turn you into a nihilist by dulling your dopamine reward system. You cant see the point in anything at the low vibe, you get depressed.

Gets old being a sugar daddy punching bag for fake house plants does it not?

Neil Peart comes to mind.

I spend most of my time alone but still within close proximity of other people. I differ from most in the fact that I prefer change rather than taking comfort in the same old routines and being in the company of people who have known them for an overly extended amount of time and hearing the same old stories and the same old drama. On the weekend sometimes I will pack what I need into my camper van and drive to another town in a different county and stay until time to return to my job. I find being around new people to be refreshing but I have my limit when it is time for me to break away I break away back to my camper van or to a motel room where I take pleasure in reading or watching television programs until I feel the need to go out again. I will talk to people I see in restaurants or in the market in whatever town I happen to be visiting at the time. It makes life so much more interesting.

Schopenhauer's brilliant and insightful philosophy is a slap in the face to modern psychology when it comes up with the idea that humans are hardwired for social connection, meaning that relationships are a basic need. Excuse me, but the only basic needs are eating and sleeping. Beyond that anyone is free to build their life as they like. Until I turned 40 I lived brainwashed by the idea that something was wrong with me because I don't have friends. Then I freed myself by getting rid of this nonsensical prejudice so now I feel free and happy since I have all my time at my disposal to think, write, read, enjoy art or other intellectual endeavours. And most important: I claim shamelessly my viewpoint of enjoying, loving and craving solitude. Keeping company is so draining apart from pointless. Schopenhauer is my hero, my idol, my solace.

"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it io only when he is alone that he is really free." -Schopenhauer


This is the realest and most relatable quote I've read in a while🔥

This is how I live. I am really alone but rub shoulders with the massess, whom I keep at a polite distance. The best I can manage is to have associates. Friendships are too costly. They hijack my time sapping my energy and cause a kind of diabetes of the soul.

One year late but moving fast. This comment will probably never be read BUT how do you reconcile Schops obsession with solitude when it is well known that isolation is probably one of the biggest health problems facing senior citizens today. I know I have measurable cognitive impairment from isolation. "... is blowing in the wind ..."

Thanks for sharing. 👍

this guy has NO chill

Well certainly not a genius/great intellect. But I do like my alone time.

I mean, he's not entirely wrong.

I think i hv found the nectar of Elysium through this channel.....

The children around where he lived, called his poodle, Mrs. Schopenhauer. The kids are always innocently correct. Don't be scared, grab a chunk of living, it can be fun laughing at the World. Peace be unto you.

Jack Kerouac in society (american cities) : ALWAYS d r u n k and severely unhappy . . . . Jack a l o n e for months in nature om mountain top : STONE COLD SOBER and h a p p y !!! Does that ring a bell ?

What are the sources of these quotes? What book do I need to read to go depth in that?

My kids and I are loners.

Alone

Schopenhauer may have been an elitist, but I don't think this was essential to his critique. I would agree that society generally is dull, but the reason is not necessarily (though often it is in practice) a lack of intellect in the ordinary person, just that one usually does not need much intelligence to fit in with a group, whose combined brainpower often is enough to take care of intellectual tasks for the individual. For there is strength in numbers, and with such strength people tend to be mutually validating and encouraging, even to the point where they can afford largely to be indifferent to reality outside of the group. Of what value then is deep thought when the group's power makes individual thinking unnecessary and when thinking even raises the risk of getting in the way of getting along? For this reason, the outsider often understands a group better than an insider, even when the insider has more information. Groups require conformity, and conformity can be stultifying. But this is not necessarily true. It also happens that insiders do understand their group better than the outsider, particularly when that group has not allowed itself to be spoiled by its power.

This man lies. They why do criminal in SOLITARY confinement go out of their minds! We were created to be social beings. Those that speak of solitude as this man does, are the ones that CRAVE social communion the most.

People and society can distract you from any deep introspection. Also, it takes away from your peace of mind.
...Live free and in peace by living on your own. 
This is why wise men and women have become hermits through the millennias.

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I wish i could play this video everyday in my head

"Oh wow, that's just how I feel ! I've always felt that, as a superior human specimen, I really struggle to engage with regular people" << virtually every comment here

Im 21 in a foreign country alone. Ngl i love it

I understand this completely

'' He who knows more than others, becomes lonely'' - Carl Jung

Good advice, .....be alone even in society.

I lived alone renovating a house for years, I became at one with myself, sitting in the garden at the end of the day stargazing and contemplating life.
I realised that when you’re isolated from society (or choose not to be too involved) that you can really start to see what you really want from it.
The best thing that I learned was that I was becoming happy. In becoming happy I began to meet some amazing people.
Now I have a family and I’m happy to have lived that way, I will tell my children that they don’t need to worry about popularity, but to be themselves and to be at peace to see life’s positives.

Amazing! I experienced this same construct in my late 20’s, and then proceeded to write a Poem about it. More meaningful now, after having shared it and after nearly 30 more years!

Being alone sucks when young, but the older you get, the more you than it

More people more Bullsh—t. I got friends at work. At work…and that is as far as it goes. I cant be bothered with em during my personal time. This does not mean i hold them in less regard. There is a fine line between what i do and what i must do.

I am an introvert and a thinker through and through and for the most part, solitude is my favourite place to be. However, I disagree with the idea that it is "superior". I do enjoy spending time with others and interacting with others because I think there's so much to learn by experiencing life and by witnessing those around you.

Anton is it you?

He who delights in Solitude is either a God or a wild beast.

It ain't Rocket Science it's a little thing called Self-Reliance 🙏

Who recorded this? Sven from Sweden? or Hans from the Netherlands

proud, upright trotters.

cloying, longitudinal offspring.

He was intelligent indeed ❤️

Plot twist, you are the society.

Other than my closest family, husband and son, humans in general creep me up beyond words…

The fire analogy was so powerful.

Schopenhauer is my favorite philosopher...👏👏👏

That's true a bit. I feel dirty when having attention seeking traits spill out. I am alone nearly always, since I was 12. I am weird but cooler than a few people, I hope.