/lit/ - Literature

Oversocialised bourgeois liberals and resentful politics-brain incels will never undersand Mishima... or rather they see no reason to ever not willfully misunderstand him... His whimsical disrespect for categories... his virility in pursuing and embodying "illusionary" and "arbitrary" things... his love of human life and its rituals amplified rather diminished than by his critical intelligence... one will find no better successor to Wilde in the Western tradition. We are too serious, and consequently too dry and apathetic. All of our supposed "irony" is really a moralist bulwark against transgression of convention. The contradiction embodied by Mishima is that a touch of levity is necessary to really meaningfully engage with the world.

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omg what happen to mishima...