Anyone notice that almost every author from every time feels the need to run anti-immortality propaganda? What is that? What’s so scary about the living forever that it requires non-stop propagandizing against? Is it just that people want to cope that dying is a good thing because they have no choice but to die? Why is it that whenever a character achieves immortality it’s depicted as an awful, depressing inhuman experience? Why is it NEVER explored how an immortal person can be in the lives of many more people across many generations?
sour grapes
I could drink so much beer if I lived forever
>>24687479Lots of people are apathetic now to the point that they create their own self fulfilling cycle so they get this idea that life in general isn’t worth living. Also probably ssri’s.
>>24687479It was originally to stop other people from wanting to become immortal, doing it, and ruining it for them. Then it became a trope that people did automatically and the immortals didn't have to put in so much work on it.>>24687586Commonly known fact: those Babylonians recounting the epic of Gilgamesh were totally krunked on Zoloft.
>>24687479Immortality is gay, and it's deconstruction is justified specifically by faggots like you think it's not gay and actively try to spread the gayness of longing for it. >Why is it NEVER explored how an immortal person can be in the lives of many more people across many generations?That is often showed precisely as a major part of the "awful, depressing inhuman experience" thing.
>>24687479Every author is immortal and seeks the sweet sweet release of death. You have something that they will never taste: ceasation.
Another thing. Whenever an immortal is confronted by a protagonist, all they can do is stand there while a baby lectures them about morality and life. Shouldn’t a person who’s lived for hundreds or even thousands of years be much wiser and armed with plenty of rhetorical comebacks to that? Shouldn’t such an experienced person understand mortals even better then they do themselves? Picture how much wiser and intellectually capable you are as an adult compared to when you were a teenager and the multiply that gap many times over. Yet this is never shown, the immortal has to be, in contradiction to expectations, a shallow almost animal-like shell who can only seethe impotently at the protag’s lecture.
