What? You never read Karl Marx's famous work: Communism is When You Steal Back Office Supplies From the Bourgeoisie

How do I know that life sucks? Well, I'm still having this conversation for one.

Al-Ma'arri was an Arab philosopher who lived in the 11th century. He went blind at a young age due to smallpox, and was mostly known for his anti-religious views, rationalism, and pessimism, as well as writing poetry. He criticized all the major religions for not supporting themselves with evidence, and for adhering to dogmatism. He thought we could only come to conclusions from reason, and that no authority, tradition, or superstition could overrule reason. He believed that there was no afterlife, and that life itself wasn't really worth living, so he was an early antinatalist, thinking that we should not have children. He also supported a kind of secular ethics, being a vegan and pacifist.

Man is the animal that watches stupid TV shows.

If you think poor people are poor because they were too stupid to invest is property...you might be bourgeoisie.
If you think that without entrepreneurs no one would bother to do any work...you might be bourgeoisie.
If you think "freedom" means having more power to boss around your employees...you might be bourgeoisie.
If you the person who should get credit for a new technology is the guy who hired people to make it...you might be bourgeoisie.
If you think the people on welfare are the ones sponging off society...you might be bourgeoisie.
If you think the "homeless problem" is that if there are too many of them around it lowers property values...you might be bourgeoisie.
If someone asks you what you do for a living, and you describe your investment portfolio...you might be bourgeoisie.

If you think poor people are poor because they were too stupid to invest in property...you might be bourgeoisie.
If you think that without entrepreneurs no one would bother to do any work...you might be bourgeoisie.
If you think "freedom" means having more power to boss around your employees...you might be bourgeoisie.
If you the person who should get credit for a new technology is the guy who hired people to make it...you might be bourgeoisie.
If you think the people on welfare are the ones sponging off society...you might be bourgeoisie.
If you think the "homeless problem" is that if there are too many of them around it lowers property values...you might be bourgeoisie.
If someone asks you what you do for a living, and you describe your investment portfolio...you might be bourgeoisie.

"Oh my god, de Beauvoir! I've just realized what I should do with my life! I should write novels!"
"Sartre...you've already written like five novels..."
"Oh yeah..."

In one of the most famous scenes in Sartre's most famous novel, Nausea, the main character Antoine Roquentin has a sort of existential crisis, and comes upon a chestnut tree and sees the root of the tree "as it really is", that is to say, without his mind imposing the structure of a "chestnut tree" upon it. One might be tempted, of course, to read this as though it was a drug trip, but it is presented in a way like the character just thought his way into another mode of phenomenological experience.
Sartre himself took a number of drugs in his life to experiment with perception, most notably Mescaline. He apparently saw hallucinated crabs for years after he took the drug, even when he was sober, which isn't so much known as a side effect of the drug, so we might imagine that Sartre took other hallucinogens aside from the Mescaline. Well, either that or he was just so smart that he saw reality, like, as it is really is or something.