I’m on a whole journey of existentialism and absurdism.
I had this thought yesterday, there were literally dinosaurs on this earth, yet we sit in offices all day and live ‘artificial’ lives. I feel like there’s so much more to life than what we’re all currently doing.
I feel like I don’t want a job, I literally just want to be a hippie. I want to live on my little homestead, grow food, make and build stuff, and that’s it.
Any books you can recommend to guide me down this journey? Perhaps something that explains these feelings more or validates them.
by lifeoutfigurer
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Into the wild. True story with a sad ending.
You’ll find that growing your own food without suffering from malnutrition is far more work than a 9-5. This is especially true if you want a house with electricity and plumbing, since those will require you to have a job to earn money to pay the bills. The pastoral fantasy is a powerful one, but there’s a reason most people don’t stay with subsistence farming given an option.
Anything Camus (The Stranger , Myth of Sisyphus, A Happy Death) , Many books by Jean Paul Sartre, Stranger in A Strange Land, A Man without a country.
I’m going to start *No Longer Human* by Osamu Dazai later today. Seems like it might fit what you’re looking for.
A Psalm for the Wild Built.
Walden
Post Office
The Stranger
Into the Wild
Grendel
Stranger in the Woods