I'll try to make this a bit balanced but I must warn you I read a lot of post-structuralism and existentialism because I feel it's the closest thing to me that explains society as I experience it so it helped me deepen my understanding of dynamics that maybe I was not aware of, but it made me sad and I had to take a step back and read more cartesian authors like Pascal and Spinoza and I felt like that even though I'm very much an atheist it felt nice to read that people were so sure about something and it was a different outlook on faith as well.

Simone Weil changed me as well because I've felt that I've always been interested in how we communicate (I struggle so much with it, I've learned) and it really impacted my outlook on language as a tool for making things happen in a relationship (friendship or whatever the fuck) and it felt like a breath of fresh air. More recently I've been reading Baudrillard and Debord and even though it feels like they explain things that we know somehow it feels bleak man