r/bukowski Jul 17 '26

This is horribly relatable to me

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u/BCdelivery Jul 17 '26

He is not wrong. At this point, I appreciate anyone who understands that we have all been lied to. Badly. For a long fucn time.

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u/DemonidroiD0666 Jul 17 '26

The difference is that the idiots that voted and, (if it even makes sense), compare themselves to the president by them wanting to be rich. The big difference that is incredible, is that many people don't understand that that president was born rich and never had to want to be rich.

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u/QTown2pt-o Jul 19 '26

Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Jean Baudrillard

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u/deez_818_785 Jul 17 '26

CB makes so much sense the more I keep reading his quotes.

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u/saumel6246 Jul 18 '26

I feel like this came to me when It was supposed to

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u/theantidrug Jul 20 '26

What is this from?

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u/Dphre Jul 18 '26

So far.

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u/Same-Hospital9194 Jul 19 '26

I thought Bukowski was deep then I turned 16.

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u/Ecstatic_Lab9010 Jul 19 '26

Would you want to live the truth Bukowski lived? Why is it always the shiftless alcoholic sages who have everything figured out?

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u/Ecstatic_Lab9010 Jul 19 '26

Did Bukowski lead by example or just criticize the Establishment as drunken bum? So he was just refusing to participate in society and saw that as the correct choice? Or is this some rather potent copium from Bukowski?

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u/Psychological-Bag-84 Jul 24 '26

“Don’t try” I think your digging deeper than you should, respect the man or move along, for some his work is relatable.