/lit/ - Literature

I absolutely need to know whether pic rel has been refuted or not. Please post books, essays and so on which confirm or refute this

Has this sentiment been refuted? I'm trying to deal with a son that has no interest in doing anything besides sitting in his room and reading. He claims that, besides his ideological position in pic rel, the "banality and foolishness" of his life and person is "beyond question", that he is "beside himself", that his ideal society is that of the ancient Greek city state and that anything less than this is not worth any serious engagement, and so on. But the surprising thing is that, by his own admission, these sentiments are "complete self-indulgent nonsense" and that he's really just putting on airs. Then he goes on and says that he is "without any base to stand on", that "words fail me, I cannot say it", that he is "too pure" for my "vulgar, pragmatic judgements" of his obvious neuroses, and that if my psychological analysis of him is correct it would only serve to "further debase" him as being nothing more than the embodiment of a base, stupid, oppressive psychology that is nothing more than a "vulgar machine of flesh and blood" and so on. He is genuinely mentally ill, I don't know what to do.

is this correct?