/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>20999133
It's not exactly like romanticizing murder, although that's around, it's more a deep ingrained fetish for death that probably stems from Christian dogma and a martyr complex. Life is sin and suffering and death is eternal paradise, but you're not allowed to just kill yourself because that'd be cheating, somebody else has to do it. And everyone wants to be a victim of something, so things that are generally harmless are blown out of proportion and cause a lot of unneeded pressures in society. These people aren't exactly practicing christians either, they've just inherited their mentality without realizing it.
Similar ways of thinking exist all over the world, but it's gotten so prominent due to "globalism" that's really just American hegemony and influence. America was always a haven for religious zealotry and puritanism, from the first people that colonized it, the Great Awakenings, temperance movements, and so on. But that seems to be diminishing and things will probably return to normal sooner or later.