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So pretty much if you're not a liberal you suffer from a pathology. This is Adorno's The Authoritarian Personality in novel form. Bravo, Gass. Bravo.

>> No.15546576

>>15546563
imagine being a mentally ill rightoid lmao

>> No.15546957

>>15546576
That's fucked up.

>> No.15546987

>>15546563
If that is what you got from the book then im sorry you missed out on one of the best american novels because you couldn't get your thoughts further than him being a facist.

>> No.15547008

I always see the same exact "criticism" when this book is brought up here "durrr stop pathologizing me" and "durrr fashies small dick." I feel like it is the same obsessed retard and you gotta wonder that fashies probably do have a pathology. Go outside and make friends op.

>> No.15547011

>>15546987
Don't minimize fascism.

>> No.15547025

>>15547008
Where are you seeing the criticism?

>> No.15547036

>>15547025
In every single The Tunnel thread there is always some anon that says this exact same thing

>> No.15547045

>>15547036
What? The comparison with Adorno is apt. Adorno needs to be read more now than ever imo.

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>>15546563
>>15546576
>It's the people who are in support of strong social bonds, order and religion that are mentally ill, not the ones with atheists, homosexuals, trannies and feminists!

>> No.15547148

>>15547088
Yeah, you need to read Gass.

>> No.15547153

>>15547148
It's an objective fact that psychopathology is way more prevalent on the left.

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>> No.15547252

>>15547088
>>15547153
>>15547174
The thing is it's really not what the book is about. You haven't read it I guess, it's not about right wingers being mentally ill or something of the sort, it is about one isolated disgruntled individual.

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I read it as "fascists develop from pure boredom and become hateful when their self-made expectations aren't met".

>> No.15547273

>>15547153
sauce?

>> No.15547446

>>15546563
Das right wyte boi
Now get on your knees and worship the supreme creator George Floyd and pray that he forgives your honky ass for being so raycis
Also give me all your shit as reparations for slavery

>> No.15547593

>>15547257
And you needed 600 pages to tell you that?

>> No.15547607

>>15547273
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339541044_Mental_illness_and_the_left

>> No.15547665

>>15546563
everyone i don't like is mentally ill
no, really, i mean it

>> No.15547733

>>15546563
Yeah, they pathologise anything they don't approve of, just saying "mental illness" means you don't have to attempt (and probably fail) to refute someone's position.

>> No.15547741

I felt the point if the book was to make a dangerously alluring point about fascism. The protagonist is not any more Disappointed than the usual citizen, he’s definitely not mentally ill in that sense. – He realises that for the average Disappointed citizen there is not much of a reason to NOT hail the fascists. Whichever form they show up in. The fascist party is always The Party of the Disappointed People.

>Hope, remember, did not fly out of the jar like the rest of the evils, but remained there to tease us, to hold us back from suicide and every other sensible response; and it’s true, we would survive, for bad luck alone does not embitter us that badly, nor the simple presence of pleasure spoil the soul when pain also arrives, nor does the feeling that affairs might have been better managed move us out of the range of ordinary disappointment; it is when we recognize that our loss has been caused in great part by others; that it needn’t have happened; that there is an enemy out there who has stolen our loaf, soured our wine, infected our book of splendid verses with filthy rhymes; then we are filled with resentment and would hang the villains from that bough we would have lounged in liquorous love beneath had the tree not been cut down by greedy and dimwitted loggers in pay of the lumber interests. Watch out, then, watch out for us, be on your guard, look sharp, both ways, when we learn–we, in any numbers–when we find who is forcing us– wife, children, Commies, fat cats, Jews–to give up life in order to survive. It is this condition in men that makes them ideal candidates for the Party of the Disappointed People.

The mindset of the average rioter in America or France these days is likely not much removed from this, just as well.
The joke about Köhler is that ultimately he does NOT do anything, because he has sunk too deeply into his Life in a Chair. The Tunnel could not get him out.

>> No.15547916

>>15547174
This just shows more Republicans think they have excellent mental health, a belief which in an of itself is a pathologizing behavior.

>> No.15547930

>>15547741
This is the only correct post in the thread.

>> No.15548590

>>15547741
Gass is on the record saying anyone who cares about politics or sports is an idiot.

>> No.15548641

>>15547916
lmao you can't be serious

>> No.15549671

Gass is an immense talent and stormweenie /pol/lyps can't handle that he completely btfo their pathetic worldview.

>> No.15550224

>>15548590
that's because he was a career university professor without a drop of red blood in his veins

>> No.15550302

>>15547045
what does he have to say and why is it important now? i don't know anything about him, i know he talks about music, that's all

>> No.15550455

this might be the single worst thread about The Tunnel to ever leave its shit stain on this board, well done

>> No.15550532

>>15550455
I've been meaning to try reading it again for a while because I really enjoyed In the Heart of the Heart of The Country but the first section always leaves me pretty lost. Does it get more comprehensible?

>> No.15550551

>>15550532
Not him but it does, the first 80 pages are literally a pleb filter. It is kinda made to be incomprehensible, Gass plays around with the typology alot and it can be really jarring, not to mention the text itself. But it does get much, much, easier to read.

>> No.15550562

>>15546563
I thought this book was about human trafficking... am I wrong?

>> No.15550826

the average zoomer literary criticism

>> No.15552067

>>15547741
Man, he really had a way with words. I don't care that his books are plotless. I just like the rhythm of his passages.