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11582730 No.11582730 [Reply] [Original]

Is the Warrior-poet the most fake archetype? Bar some few exceptions every writer ever has been an escapist.
Those that are active and spend their lifeforce in the real world rarely write or care about literature.

>> No.11582741

>trying to set yourself in the mindset of someone from 600 bc
>2018

>> No.11582759

You mix up level of activity with pragmatism.

>> No.11582775

Authentic literature is never an escapism, it is, in fact, anti-escapistic. Those, whom you call "active" never see the world as it is. They are escapist, for they escape in illusions of culture and career.

>> No.11582802

>>11582730
Lyric poetry is direct self-expression, and it originally wasn't written.

>> No.11584231

bump

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>>11582730

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actual warrior poet

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>>11584459
based Burton

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>>11582730
*blocks ur path*

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>> No.11585698

>>11585536
>too weak for military service
>gay as fuck

>> No.11585703

>>11582730
Don't let Nietzsche see this thread

>> No.11585706

>>11582730
I remember reading that samurai were supposed to be poets and stuff if they wanted to be well respected

>> No.11585746

>>11585698
>literally lead a (failed) coup against the army
>honoraburuie kirred himserf afterward
the man had principles and stuck to them

>> No.11586034

>>11582730
>Those that are active and spend their lifeforce in the real world rarely write or care about literature.
I understand your argument but that's not really true. It's basically a casual dismissal of the entire world of human expression, as if the desire to create can only come from some lack of earthly purpose. If I'm to insert my opinions, I think it's those who are active and spending their lifeforce in the real world are exactly the ones to create either good art or at least the kind of art that lasts through the ages, depending on how you want to interpret it.

That said... History is littered with actual warrior poets. It's not fake, it's just romantic.

>> No.11586087

>>11585746
His dream was to die by seppuku. The coup was a win-win that way

>> No.11586116

You're better off looking to the Caucasus, East Europe, somewhat the Middle East for this phenomenon

>> No.11586209

>>11582775
Based first sentence I hate when people say fiction is inherently escapist.

>> No.11586513

>>11586087
Pragmatic as well.