/lit/ - Literature

>>21964664
Some are just run-of-the-mill grifters who chanced upon writing as their scam of choice. Then you have the other, sadder category. The genuinely mentally ill. Graphomaniacs and manifesto-pushers, sometimes egged on by anons who profess an infantile penchant for "schizo lit".

Both display a complete ignorance (or utter rejection) of established literary culture. Like any coping hack, they're "above it". "It" might even be a conspiracy to keep them down. They unironically think that the conditions that were in place hundreds if not thousands of years ago, the primordial chaos, can be transposed to 2023 bean-counter world. The grifters believe in the "Old Weird America" snake oil method of making it big, which they hilariously apply to literature of all things. The schizos see themselves as standing shoulder to shoulder with the Penguin Classics of the past who bravely defied the Roman Empire, the Church, the Soviet censors. In total contrast to any normal human being's response, they take the blanket indifference to their "work" as a sign that they're right. "They" are stamping out fresh ideas and dissenting views. If only "they" listened. Why won't "they" listen?

But the most interesting cases are the ones who mix a bit of both into a daring synthesis. Take our guy Jason Bryan here. In his mid-30s, he basically tanked his entire career (if not his life) to "speak the truth" about... dating in Vancouver. By his own admission, he gets thrown out of every website he frequents. The man is insane. Nothing he writes will ever match up to the rubbernecking pleasures involving the unmitigated disaster that is his life, the details of which we're generously treated to whenever he suffers a manic episode.

For every eccentric genius there's a million non-geniuses; plain weirdos who should be kept away from children and vacuum cleaners.

>>21268634
it's "great" for people who treat literature (and art in general) like homework. huffing and puffing for pages on end, he slams you over the head with "themes" and "motifs" relayed through bipedal clichés in grotty little revues. gold star for robot boy