Charles Bukowski - Individuality

A broken, beautiful man. Speaks of the best and worst of all of us.

[@argentokaos2629]

"Communication is the greatest destroyer of talent." Welcome to the Internet Age.

[@ddubov6312]

yes, parents must keep away as much as possible their kids from this internet bubble full of illusions

[@petetj333]

Hes not for most people, like many brilliant minds. If you cant understand or relate, its easier to just knock him.

[@MarkAndrews71565]

He's right about talent, genius, and luck. It's all about being at the right place at the right time. But I've never been at the right place at the right time. Heck, when my ship finally does come in I'll be at the train station. If I didn't have bad luck, I'd have no luck at all.

[@JihadBunnydick]

Same thing with finding a girlfriend, right place, right time.

[@bumblebee3942]

Born under a bad sign

[@jamesjervis9658]

Try something; just choose to look at your life as being lucky, rather than either succeeding or failing, instead look for how you can learn from anything that happens to you. This way you are always lucky, because you can grow and have success from every pain or failure.

[@metrach8901]

it seems to me the things we want most evade us while the things we don't care for are always around which calls me to work on my desires. If Charles ever wanted to become a famous poet by the time he did the desire was long gone. You can't cheat the universe

[@troyott2334]

what a man

[@_munkykok_]

I AGREE #NoMoreTalent, #AllOnTheSamePage

[@artistformerlyknownaspoop859]

😊

[@vlexanderson5454]

If you think he was broken, as you said in your description then you do not understand.

[@toro_bravo_80]

“The strongest men are without Gods.” Only more reason to become a Buddhist.

[@oharryc]

truer words have not been spoken

[@MatijaPasch]

"The strongest men are without guts." - Eilert in Hedda Gabler "The strongest man upon the earth is he who stands most alone." - Ibsen

[@argentokaos2629]

@toro_bravo_80 Yeah, Bukowski was all about those organized religions. :D :D :D

[@robbiepeterh]

Lol God by a different name Have balls to go alone

[@unsinnkim3690]

This man has inspired me to quit.

[@gioconda4736]

Why Dear?

[@xploration1437]

@@gioconda4736 most people are disappointing.

[@groovi35]

That’s a bit dumb

[@dummywave-xe5lv]

bye bye

[@argentokaos2629]

@unsinnkim3690 Dude, the people responding to you just *don't get it.* They have no idea Bukowski's final epitaph was "Don't try"...

[@cadgeduende6677]

I want to say what I know about this man I have loved for years. I know his father was fond of the American expression, "Well shit fire and save matches!". That's actually the only one thing I know about Bukowski and I just made it up. His father should have been fond of saying that phrase while walking past his son into the living room to establish dominance at the big chair. I don't know Chuck talked about that a couple of times, of helping things happen or not getting in the way of what should have been. This guy angers me to no end, "WHY TRY" man you don't write that! You keep that to yourself. I never understood it. He always got up for work at the P.O for what 25 years? I'm sure in his rambling days he was up early, hungover and angry with the rest of em waiting outside the labor joint. I can't remember, he wrote about I should know but my angle is that he was no fluff. He was *always* trying. The line was the thing but Bukowski never had to try at writing. He just needed enough time and space when he was younger to be able to not try and to hopefully let his genius work itself out the way he was hoping. Anyway that's a lot of trying up and down the years. So I don't get it, it must be a prank. Another absurdist 20th century art failure, the tomb that asks the Sphinx to hand over it's notebook. I mean c'mon, even the failtrolls need to TRY HARDER.

[@cadgeduende6677]

@@smoothbuddha7212 Well hey man thank you for that, you helped me understand something I hadn't before. I've read most of Hank's works, SCREAMS FROM THE BALCONY a particular favorite for the raw look into his mind thinking and writing at that time, but I never understood the "don't try" and now that you explain it of course it makes perfect sense. It's exactly like how I tell someone "try harder" knowing they will never make it up that hill but at least I won't have to watch them climb it. "Fail harder" is a good one too, if one is doing a bit of trolling on KZbin.

[@goydivision5311]

Maybe this is why people like Bukowski whose parents were not native English speakers and peoples like the Irish who had their language removed, are more free thinkers more of a fresh canvas.

[@polsyg6581]

i find second language useful for that but most folks can learn one and prob should.

[@gioconda4736]

Hey boys that thing in the screen is only Charles Bukwoski who accepted a clean shirt a few days before, so He's trying to answer his mission with the journalist encouraged by.

[@Saturnia2014]

?

[@adityabhagwat7231]

turns out you can just string a bunch of words together and call it a sentence! who knew?

[@9393Technate]

@@adityabhagwat7231 TRUUUUU Who knew? lmao

[@gigyoung1983]

His opining is better than his poetry

[@groovi35]

Opining?

[@oharryc]

disagree his poetry is beautiful

[@P.viridis]

​@@groovi35giving opinions

[@stuartbritton4811]

The stongest men are without what? Guts, gods? What did he say?

[@troyott2334]

DOUBT

[@pikiwiki]

learn to turn on captions, you must

[@JeanPaul-zq5yk]

Without gods

[@wilb6756]

ducks

[@David-te9nq]

Don't take him literally. If you do, you basically have to become a cynic, alcoholic and depressed person. I'm not saying that Bukowski isn't "objectively" right about the general view on contemporary life, but just think twice before you listen to him as an advisor and be prepared to become pretty unhappy.

[@MGC64]

you just have a small brain capacity and lack the ability to comprehend his musings

[@oharryc]

you must be unhappy before you can be free. change means discomfort. whether you want to be in such a state or not is entirely up to you, but id rather be alcoholic & depressed than "normal" (& still really depressed deep down). also you dont have to be a cynic just because you think like this. ive found being very lonely and depressed and then not caring what others think about me has enabled me to care more for them now. its enabled me to stop faking when i really dont give a shit. to actually be real with people. because thats how you actually care.

[@vedant9663]

Umm, this is the more than necessary add-on to my unhappy.

[@YTcanLetUsDown]

People like him are a crutch for people already broken by society and it's actions. One can only hope that anyone listening to him hoping to gain insight in a world they helped create due to their ignorance but always had a safety net with financial family support etc. This people should experience unhappiness like the rest of us.

[@Yahya-R]

@@oharryc "You must be unhappy before you can be free." Children are happy because they live a life of delusion. Once they get a bit older, life gets real. They can choose to continue living a life of delusion, as many people do; or they can choose to accept reality, ground themselves in truth, then live a true life of contentment after dealing with the initial grief of reality.

[@TheRealValus]

The strongest men reject God and drown themselves in booze, is that it? Anyone can do without God who is content to be a degenerate wretch. To eschew God and still be a good man - that takes strength, or something more than strength; integrity. But if you cannot do that, don't fool yourself. Seek God, rather than jaundiced, drunken oblivion.

[@OnkelStein]

Superstition does not make better human beings, quite the contrary

[@stuartbritton4811]

​@@OnkelSteinGod is not a superstition. He is real. Superstitions are made-up fantasies, that pretend something is true, but without any evidence. If that's what you think God is, then good luck in that narrow-minded viewpoint.

[@OnkelStein]

@@stuartbritton4811 hahahahjajajajajajbajJajaava

[@adamant5906]

It's oblivion either way, baby. You are a false prophet and god is a superstition.

[@9393Technate]

@@stuartbritton4811 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH Lmao How can you Prove God? He's dead and his corpse is this rotting heat-dying universe

[@dimitristripakis7364]

Work --> Invest --> Get rich, even if it takes you and your children decades. It's the only way and it's fun while you 're doing it. All these "views of life" are very dangerous to your future well being.

[@pikiwiki]

ooh. voice of reason. ooh

[@DeadSoulConsumer]

Get lost

[@DeadSoulConsumer]

And stfu about other people's way to live

[@polsyg6581]

some of us hate working man unless it’s something we care about that doesnt pay for crap. what then??

[@dimitristripakis7364]

@@polsyg6581 If you hate working you are basically screwed. Make sure to change that.

[@emanuelacomerio5334]

J loved Nora by Ibsen. In detail J loved to see her. But J saw her as a modern woman: a kind of Ingmar Bergman in future time. Nowadays we call that character Nora by Ibsen (or Norma that takes her place in Music, lyric, poetry, movies, theatre, for example)

[@gioconda4736]

Uttavvio

[@emanuelacomerio5334]

@@gioconda4736 oh la gioconda. Penso che sia un quadro pittato su donna italiana (forse etrusca) dei bei tempi passati. Un dipinto fatto da un pittore italiano ma che poi l'abbiano tenura in un museo in francia.

[@gioconda4736]

@@emanuelacomerio5334 ho magnato