/lit/ - Literature

>>15543333
Nice digits... but CHECK THIS.

>>15543333
what do you mean by anti-escapism?

>>15543346
Something like stop being a "hikikomori" or making your own reality in whatever
Or something like New Brave World

I hope You know it

>>15543365
ah, thanks

>>15543365
Suicide Island

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>>15543433
Is that the doomer?

>>15543445
Is "homunculus"

Parerga and paralipomena

The tatami galaxy

>>15543365
>making your own reality
don't we all make our own reality?

cool recs. ressentiment seems interesting.

Bump

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>>15543699
You know what? Fuck it, it’s time for a rant. Being a hikikomori is obviously a terrible and worthless existence, but being a cog in society is barely a step up. What’s the point in going to a university if you’re just going spend most of the time second guessing what you’re taught and end up in a financial debt you will most likely never get out of with your shitty salary at a rootless cosmopolitan corporation? Do you still have ambition? A purpose? Unless you consider playing video games, watching the next shit anime, or possibly fucking an average looking cunt AT BEST if you’re lucky as a reason to live, then you really need to do some soul searching.

>>15543962
Life isn't that bad, i'm ugly and a freak but someday i'll stick to a fucking hot pussy and do something i'll be proud of, and You should do the same

>>15543333
>anti-escapism
Aku no Hana and Evangelion. But of course you know those already.

"i'm mad as hell and i'm not going to take it anymore!"

>>15544120
This. There's plenty of cool shit to do in life. I swear that one day I will climb the Great Pyramid of Giza, even if they throw me in Egyptian jail for a month.

>>15544872
What a great swear to do
>>15543365
Also, we have to specify if anti-mediocrity is the same that anti-escapism

>>15543433
This is a really good manga, and I hate manga.

>>15545047
Then check out ressentiment

>>15544688
>Aku no Hana
It was escapism all the way until the very end when he says "nah lmao, I'm a fucking pervert loser faggot but I'll tell everyone and I'll be so fucking brave and interesting that I'll just go pick up a new gf without issue". Pretty braindead ending desu desu, he should've killed himself

>>15543382
He never improves though, it is just despair all the way through?

>>15543333
I'm sad because EVA deserves to be here but the EVA manga is so fucking terrible that I can't justify posting it. Pic related definitely applies here though.

>>15545170
>He never improves though
He does, but the conspiration's stuff still worries him sometimes, at least in the anime, I didn't read the manga.
Also could You Say me how to censurate, please?

>>15543962
Jesus Christ, quit being so vengeful for five minutes and you might see that the world isn't quite dead. Obviously malaise is ever-present in our society, and most if not all people are doomed to fall to it, but if all life is struggle then why not enjoy struggling?

>>15544872
I had this same thought. But it's actually not very nice desu
why would you want to damage buildings of such cultural importance
plus do you know how big those blocks are? it's a lot more dangerous than you might guess
and it's disrespectful

>>15545251
You meant Neon Genesis Evangelion? Because I didn't find a "EVA" named manga

>>15545303
Yes, sorry. I'm used to /a/ where EVA is used as an abbreviation.

>>15545327
It's ok, now I learned an abbreviation and You got a meme

>>15545170
But he does improve anon, but in a realistic way. Not doing a 360 and becoming Mr. Chad but being seemingly able to live in society

>>15543365
>brave new world
>anti-escapism
???????????????????

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>>15545355
y'all niggas need lasch in your life

>>15545407
It obviously is. 1984 is too.
>>15545413
What's lasch? And why?

>>15545413
based anti-narcissist

"Full metal alchemist"
And maybe "monster"

>>15545274
ctrl+S

>>15545505
saved

>>15545362
In the manga he just fluctuates between his slothful depressing existence and bouts of half-hearted maniac activity to flee from consequences/keep up appearances. Nothing changes. It literally ends with him trying to kill himself by hiding inside his room as the house is wrecked

>>15543333
Planetes maybe

>>15543333
kek

thanks for the rec, op