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Why did Mersault shoot the Arab?

>> No.11672767
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>Looking back now, the real topic of “The Stranger” is painfully obvious. Camus and the French had a demographic problem. They were going to have to give up some prime Mediterranean beachfront. Which is why the idiot protagonist kills an Arab on the beach and gets himself executed. Spoiler alert: That’s the plot of “The Stranger.” French mama’s boy kills Arab on beach, whiles away the time in prison waiting to be guillotined thinking about…you know, I can’t even remember what he was thinking about. That’s probably because, like almost all the leftist European rhetoric of the postwar years, “The Stranger” is totally disingenuous. It can’t just come out and say, “God damn it, we like this beach! We conquered this beach! Why we gotta give up all this nice beach just because you Arabs are out-breeding us?” You look back now and it’s obvious that’s what Camus, a French Algerian (a now extinct tribe), was writing about. Normal tribal behavior, resorting to violence when you’re losing coveted territory. But God forbid Camus should talk that way out loud back in those post-Stalingrad days when everything was moral, except the nonstop lying.

>And if you’re one of these deeply, instinctively dishonest writers, you must always fog up the windshield as much as possible. So Camus’ hero kills an Arab because…”existentialism, man.” The context is carefully removed, for fear it might explode and send literary egos flying all across the sidewalk café. And the context is obvious: The long war between the North Shore of the Mediterranean and the South Shore. The Northies had it all their own way for a long time until the two huge wars where they ripped each other’s guts out; after that, the tide slowly started going the other way. Camus lived when the Northies were leaving the beaches, but the process wasn’t even close to being finished when they took the Tricolor down in Algiers and Tunis for the last time.

>> No.11672773

>The Arab
F R A G I L E?

>> No.11672781

>>11672767

my mind is blown

>> No.11672820

>>11672767
What fucking idiot wrote this

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>>11672767

>> No.11672858

He pulled a knife.

>> No.11672861

>>11672767
This is what involuntary celibate does to you

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>>11672767
ok pseud

>> No.11672959

>>11672757
BECAUSE OF THE SUN

>> No.11672972

>>11672767
I was convinced by this and will now begin spreading it as far and wide as possible.

>> No.11672975

>>11672861
how would that work logically? You're under the presupposition that because incel racism comes from a lack of love or validation. If only the incel could experience love, he would redistribute it to minorities necessarily. But what if he also distributed the newfound love to whites as well. Given that in his deprivated state there is more love to be found for whites than minorities, would not an equal proportion of new love given to each race not maintain this gap? He would be more forgiving to them sure, but he would be even MORE forgiving to whites in that case.

>> No.11672977

>>11672767
This may be the worst analysis of a book I've ever read. And I went to school in clapland.

>> No.11672987

For all you brainlets wondering if that's real and who wrote it, if you can't tell by the pic, it's The War Nerd.

>> No.11672993

>>11672977
I love it so much I am smiling still.

>> No.11674284

He listened to too much The Cure

>> No.11674592

who doesn't want to shoot arabs

>> No.11674598

>>11672757
>Why did Mersault shoot the Arab?
>shoot the Arab
>Arab

Why are you even asking?

>> No.11674692

>>11672757
It was fucking hot.

>> No.11674703

>>11672975
This is what involuntary celibate does to you

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>>11672757

>> No.11674885

>>11672757
Because he was based and redpilled

>> No.11674909

The sun was hot

>> No.11674951

>>11674909
the light was on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0B89NlPrC8

>> No.11674989
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BRAVO CAMUS

>> No.11675027

>>11672767
>>11674592
>>11674598
Based.
>>11672959
>>11674692
>>11674909
>>11674989
Cringe

>> No.11675131

>>11675027
Cringe

>> No.11675140

SUNS OUT

GUNS OUT

>> No.11676298

>>11672767
> I can’t even remember what he was thinking about
i too can't remember what he was thinking about

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>>11675027
>using brainlet memes

>> No.11676694

>>11672757
He had autism. The sun was too stimulating and made him triggered.

>> No.11677040

>>11676353
>GUY ACT LIKE VIDYOGAME
glass houses

>> No.11677848

>>11672767
Damn never thought of it like that

>> No.11677882

Am i a brainlet for not seeing what the controversy is?
It’s been a long time but irc there’s an overarching, casual enemity between the piednoirs and the arabs, even if not outright expressed.
His actions are frustrating but not really inescrutable desu

>> No.11678090

>>11672767
fuck this reads exactly like your typical berkeley-core 'intersectional' 're-examination' piece about how everything is actually colonization and white supremacy

except it's not

>> No.11678237

cause it was fucking hot

>> No.11678283

>>11678090
There's something ironic about this post.
It suggests you are some type of alt-right-type... and yet you deny the "reality" of white supremacy?
I'm confused. Any half-witted alt-righter would realize that the supremacy of whites is one of the central and most logical tenants of this sort of conservative, anti-deconstructionist perspective and yet your argument that not everything is based on a logical sociological structture is itself a deconstruction.

aka fuck you that's a valid reading even from an existentialist perspective.

>> No.11678422

>>11672767
Is this John Dolan?

>> No.11678586

>>11672757
>Why did Mersault shoot the Arab?
I hope so.

>> No.11678794

>>11672977
Wtf is clapland?

>> No.11678808

>>11678794
USA, but he's a dumbfuck.

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>>11672757
Actually just finished this book. It's simple, really. Mersault is always living in the present. He doesn't care about the past or the future, especially in the moment. The sun was bothering him, and the light from the Arab's knife hurt his eyes, so he shot him.

>> No.11679395

>>11679201
why not shoot the knife doe

>> No.11679510

>>11672757
Why would you ever not shoot an Arab?

>> No.11679524

>>11672820
>>11672873
>>11678422
>>11678090

The writer is John Dolan, but he's writing "in character" as the "war nerd" Gary Brecher, a disillusioned data entry clerk who sees everything through the lens of war and nationalism.

He is actually a PhD Lit professor, this review is written in character so don't take it too seriously.

>> No.11680012

>>11672977
Hit to close to the bone, eh lefty?

>> No.11681577

It seems like Mersault's story is an exegesis of Nihilistic ideology. He has no goals and no ambition because he finds little meaning in anything. For him, life is just something that happens. He has no attachment because he doesn't see any reason to. He might buy into pleasure here or there, but he doesn't see the importance of anything beyond that. He kills the Arab because he sees no reason not to. He is annoyed and maybe feels threatened in some way, and he responds accordingly. He doesn't see a moral problem with killing because he sees no greater meaning in an action like that. He isn't concerned with the long-term problems involved with his actions because he doesn't think there are any. There is no meaning in his life or in those around him.

>> No.11681991

During the beginning of The Stranger, Meursault appears to be a character devoid of emotion. However, two key events prove this to be untrue: killing the arab and his outburst when talking to the minister. During the arab scene, Meursault's inner turmoil is brought out by the unrelenting sun. This results in an impulsive act that results in murder.