/lit/ - Literature

>>12314648
Gamers basically waste away the best years of their lives locked into a screen, and walk away with nothing but slightly improved hand/eye coordination. Their entire childhoods, high school years, and college years are lost into this completely mundane time sink. It can be fun but it's an entirely pointless and fruitless hobby.

This particular kind of person begins to resent others for their other forms of success. They see people who get good grades as obedient and thoughtless drones. They see those who succeed in sports as dumb brutes. They see those who go into the arts as pretentious. The problem is that, when it comes to themselves, they have nothing to show. Their life is mostly spent in a room, not moving, clicking a mouse. Their personality is entirely based on this passive experience. By any practical considerations they don't do anything.

So to make up for this fundamental inadequacy, they convince themselves that they're "smart, but lazy", or some kind of unorthodox thinker not afraid to break the rules. They think their sense of humor is too edgy for people when the truth is they're often just not funny, and would never shatter that illusion by performing actual stand up comedy and bombing. They get their opinions from youtube personalities that cultivate this sense of outsider/renegade thinking. But really this "thinking" is an attempt to fill in their lack of self. It's no coincidence that Jordan Peterson, popular among this demographic, tells them to read Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, whose entire philosophies spring from personality defects. Kierkegaard was impotent, his entire existential analysis is grounded in impotence. The same kind of existential impotence brought on by being a gamer.

This type of person can't admit that the only books they've ever read closely are Halo novelizations and fantasy paperbacks, so maybe one day they have a flight and read a single book by Mishima or Junger or Evola and suddenly they have something they can always talk about, some token that makes them better than the average "NPC". It's also a shortcut to being taken seriously while not bothering to know anything about literary theory or criticism.