/lit/ - Literature

>>21528664
Firstly, Mishima didn't commit suicide, he committed seppuku. Secondly, Mishima's view of death is a whitepill because it re-contextualizes death as the object of life.
For the average normie, death is a bad thing-- something to be feared and despised. To Mishima, death made the greatest virtues possible. Death proves the sincerity of one's beliefs and actions and lends meaning to life. Is it really better to live for the sake of living? To chase after pleasures for 80 years and die a drooling retard in a hospice? You will die no matter what. If you live your life chasing after wealth and pleasure, you will lose everything regardless- you will even lose your death. What a meaningless death: bedridden, demented, and bespeckled with fetid sores and shit filled diapers. To the man that charges head first into death, he will gain exactly what he wished for: Death. His life and death becomes a poem crystallized into the annals of time; whether he is remembered or forgotten, his death remains eternal.
Mishima had a burning desire to help his people throw off the shackles of materialist nihilism, and he died to prove the sincerity of the words he had written and spoken his entire life. He did not commit suicide, he demonstrated his concept of unflinching loyalty and dedication, succinctly explain in Runaway Horses:
>“Like the men of the League, I would cut open my stomach.”
>“Indeed?” The martial prince’s expression indicated that he had grown used to hearing such answers. “Well, then, if he was pleased, what would you do?”
>Isao replied without the least hesitation: “In that case, too, I would cut open my stomach at once.”
>“Oh?” For the first time a gleam of interest flashed from the Prince’s eye. “And what would be the meaning of that? Explain yourself.”

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>>21501662
This anon knows.

He didn't want to live to become a senile old man, but the idea that 'one should kill himself before that point' is beyond retarded. His own idiosyncratic interpretation of "bushido" made him decide to try, on pain of death, to save Japan from cultural death and liberalization/modernization/westernization. He genuinely atttempted to save his country from his perceived threat and certainly wouldn't have committed seppuku if the military agreed and staged a coup. However, he knew that failure was almost certain and he would thus able to enact the thing he fetishized; a glorious, honourable, and beautiful death. The important thing to realize is that if he killed himself just to die it wouldn't have been glorious, honourable, or beautiful. He required that he fight for something greater than himself and the possibility of success and life. If his death was profaned by vanity or emotion then it would be "vulgar."
A lot of his views are stated more or less clearly in his Tetralogy which, although it is fiction, likely shares more of who he was as a person than novels like Confessions of a Mask.

>>21386540
Mishima was right.

>/lit/fit

Working out and committing 切腹

>>16077148
become the power fantasy larp, and then kill yourself