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Why has a notable amount of famous authors committed suicide?

>> No.13383646

They're batshit insane.

>> No.13383659

>>13383639
Citation needed

>> No.13383660

Mental retardation. The literary establishment is attracted to books that are somehow related to or a result of mental retardation. Most of the people associating their careers with literature have a lot of symptoms of mental retardation, and if a book has retardation themes in it, implicit or explicit, the critic will be able to emphasize with it better and hence will like it more. Mentally retarded people are at odds with society - they feel excluded as they cannot perform daily functions as easily as regular people, they often have no friends, are depressed (IQ is negatively correlated with depression). Living the mentally retarded life is not easy. Inside a mentally retarded person's mind, an easy solution pops up - to kill themselves. Without thinking too much, they carry it out. Such is the literary life.

>> No.13383677

>>13383660
This.

>> No.13383695

yet why so few philosophers do

>> No.13383699

>>13383695
I explained it in my post >>13383660
Being a good philosopher requires a high IQ.

>> No.13383725

>>13383659
We've got at least Hemingway, DFW, and Hunter S Thompson but I don't know any others.

>> No.13383739

>>13383725
Fair

>> No.13383931

>>13383660
>IQ is negatively correlated with depression
ignorance is bliss

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>>13383725
Sylvia Plath

>> No.13383985

>>13383931
You suck at reading comprehension. IQ is negatively correlated with depression means the higher your IQ is, the less likely you are to be depressed overall, not the other way around. Ignorance is pain.

>> No.13383991

>>13383725
Virginia Woolf killed herself. And Sylvia Plath. Mark Fisher. Deleuze. Weinenger. There's more I can't think of right now.

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>>13383985

>> No.13384031

>>13383985
retard

>> No.13384033

>>13384009
>le the reason I’m sad is because I’m too smart

>> No.13384081

>>13383725
>Osamu Dazai, John Kennedy Toole

>> No.13384089

>>13383985
>IQ is negatively correlated with depression
>IQ is negatively correlated with (increased) depression
>IQ is negatively correlated with (decreased) depression
>invokes ambiguity, a core aspect of reading comprehension

>>13384009
>>13384033
I did some research, there are articles and studies linking both high and low iq to depression, but for different reasons. So in all fairness, we are all wrong(and right).

>>13383985
Ignorance leads to pain through the complacency brought on by bliss, but is not pain itself.

>> No.13384470

>>13384033
literally me

>> No.13384493

>>13384033
Everyone I ever knew who said that was a low-iq "underachiever" coping with their failures.

>> No.13384502

>>13384031
Learn to read.

>> No.13385032

>>13384009
WAAAAH IM SO SMART AND DEPRESSED

>> No.13385069

>>13385032
Who hurt you?