/lit/ - Literature

>>9769377
It's very romantic, I know. But arcing back to >>9767346 , the least romantic post. Relinquishing responsibility is the only way to destroy an evil, in a sense. First it must grow powerful, and only then can it be fought against, once it's a threat. Worthless until then. That is why we procrastinate the festering of evils.

>just check that essay. a very smart and sensitive man reflecting on why it is that we like to see gangsters get blown up on screen. mainly out of this desire to see those monsters killed, but these monsters were also a commentary on a society which punished them for their success when they broke the unfair rules around which that society is constituted. and how he as critic was aware of this, knowing that something much more interesting was going on psychologically &c.

I understand. The perverted desire for the evil-doers, the Jokers and such. The animals that do as they please, the virtueless. They reach this stage because we allow them to do so, until they become a threat that must be dispensed with, usually through self-destruction or self-sacrifice. But we must alow them to. So we can evolve.