/lit/ - Literature

>>21494973
No, it's a tired trope used to make people feel bad for the people actively ruining their lives. "Oh, but Mr. Millionaire has problems too!", but when poor people have those problems they aren't so romantic. A lot of people are honestly ignorant of their poverty until they get past being a mental teenager, and then they realize that all that time they spent groaning about their parents, their neighborhood, town, school, peers, social status, etc., was actually time spent not in self-pity, but self-love. They were romanticizing their play-suffering. When a highly successful person kills themselves, it's because they've managed to convince themselves that they aren't successful, that they're actually in a state of poverty much more profound than any one actually below the poverty line. In other words, it's just another self-aggrandizing pity party, just one that leads to a rapid decay of their confidence and self-respect and births suicidal ideation.

>>21461005
>Faulkner tries and finds himself almost completely unable to reject the values that have caused him so much psychological pain and suffering, even knowing that they are essentially arbitrary and contingent and doomed to cease to exist.
>contingent
Why do so many people insist on using this word wrong? It's turned into a filler word, but its original definition is just abstract enough to fool people who haven't really apprehended its meaning to think the writer had a point in using it. Not dissimilar to "Epitome".

>>21246384
I'd be willing to bet that they're mostly people who used to love the series, but they needed to start hating it when it became popular in the west to justify themselves as a contrarian. They're also older now and they want to shut out their memories of having fun reading comics at a young age, because now they're an educated reader of "literary fiction". That or they never read it. In any case, Berserk really never was all that good.