/lit/ - Literature

Protagonists are a tool of technology.

You think they're easier to relate to, you think they're easier to self insert onto, you think it's just how stories are told. But it's all conditioning, conditioning you to believe for anything to actually happen there has to be a leader, a man at the top of the pile "saving" everyone. It makes you compliant, you don't question why your boss is the boss, "someone has to be the leader and one day it'll be me but for now it's my boss". It tricks you into thinking you're in control, that you have a chance to lead one day, that you're not just enslaved to the machine.

Everything is designed to protect the system, the machine. By confusion or misdirection, it makes sure you're never any real threat. By keeping us all focused on ourselves and our own desires it divides us and makes us pliable. Divided we fall.