/lit/ - Literature

>>13917461
No need thank me. It is beyond being unoriginal, beyond being part of the so called "cattle". There's a rather famous and over used quote by Oscar Wild about imitation and how the large majority of people just mimicry each other. We've trascended. We no longer just imitate culture, for in the past, who didn't aspire to be Aquiles? Oddyseus? Even quasi fantasy characters like Megas Alexandros come to mind. We dreamed about how great they were and thus rendered them worthy of imitation. We now commit ego death and literally become badly crafted products of our decadent culture. Who the hell wants to become the Joker as portrayed in recent films (i.e. Suicide Squad)? Who wants to become, say, Harry Potter? Jon Snow, Daenerys, Stepehen King's latest protagonist, your average protagonist even? They are all so badly crafted, so little in comparison with the classics... One might say that what I state is just simply
>old good
>new bad
and it quite sad, because you just have to read a couple of books from different epochs to come to this realisation. Times of Olde were mythical, great, mighty. Who wants to become, again, your average book protagonist? In all its dullness, it happens that we have the greatest output of media ever. We also have the greatest output of bad media ever. And of course I do recognise there are, indeed, good authors out there. Sadly, they are greatly overshadowed by a sea of shit. This is unique to our current situation. In the end, Metal Gear Solid 2 and its fabullous dialogue between GW and Raiden comes to mind. It is evident that we are not capable of managing our culture any longer. Our information's density output is far beyond human manageablity. Yet we try with datacenters and cyberwalls of China. End of this nonsensical rambling. No tldr.