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What literature explains why its so common nowadays to romanticize mental illness?

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>> No.14412539

>>14411841
brave new word revisited. deep own we all know that this world is fucked and that anyone who is well-adjusted to it is a piece of shit, so naturally it is meritorious to be so assblasted by life as it now is that you become insane. also the idiot probably.

>> No.14412544

Do you have a few examples of media you are referring to that "romanticize mental illness". I know about Joker

>> No.14412547

non conformists make for more interesting stories

>> No.14412662

>>14411841
romanticization of mental ilness is what kept art alive, now that all the mentally ill are on meds, great art and literature is no more.

>> No.14412696

>>14412662
i don't take meds though. my art will be painted in blood however.

>> No.14412936

>>14412539
I agree

>> No.14412943

>>14411841
because real life is shit so people who live in another world are suddenly interesting

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>>14412662
great art and literature are no more because it's all been done and there is nothing left to do with art. the human era of artistic production is over *adjust glasses* *gazes at you sternly*

>> No.14412972

>>14412970
is this right? it feels right

>> No.14413030

>>14412539

I blame Vatican II and the Jew's

>> No.14413040

>>14413030
the Jew's what? did the Jews kill you before you could finish your post?

>> No.14413045

>>14413040

Yes

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>>14412972
No. People who think like that are just bored and possibly suicidal. A decadent mind doesn’t understand life very well.
Great art is well crafted, familiar parts, recombined. By the new and for the new. The arts suffer, like the rest of us, under capitalism and authoritarianism

>> No.14413057

>>14412539
This.

>> No.14413067

>>14413048
yeah, sure, ill just take the word of an aged lesbian who is clearly suffering from early onset dementia

>> No.14413068

>>14411841
I can't give an example of literature that explains this but I can give a counter example of a weak, unstable mind.

>I could not help observing, however, the >inferior scientific knowledge of my companion. >His mind was not Prussian, but given to >imaginings and speculations which have no >value. The fact of our coming death affected >him curiously, and he would frequently pray in >remorse over the men, women, and children >we had sent to the bottom;

>> No.14413194

>>14413048
You're suffering from dementia

>> No.14413203

>>14411841
Romanticizing mental illness is nothing new. Haven't you read Dostoevsky?