Why are the 20th century classics all extremely sad or depressing.
the stranger is hopecore and 1984 is a hard comedy
>>25492828Recall what was happening during the 20th century.
They're not.
>>25492828>babby's first litrachure
>>25492859>>babby's first litrachureyes
>>25492859Is The Stranger really what you read to babies
>Why are the 20th century classics all extremely sad or depressingThere are many reasons but the main ones are World War One and World War Two
>>25492857i tired to read this and its just two homosexuals being gay?
>>25492894That was your diary, anon
>can't survive on the farm--time to move to an urban centre with no sense of community >uhoh, some retard just shot some other retard in Sarajevo...time to go watch my friends get their lungs melted by gas while I machine gun hundreds of other kids and random intermittent explosions fuck up my flight-or-fight response>what do you mean the economy is fucked..."black thursday"? "dust bowl"? >shit, looks like the Germans and the Communists are getting into it...time to terror bomb civilians and pretend the commies raping every woman in sight never happened because moustache man industrialized genocide >fuck, the commies already have the doomsday weapon we dropped on Japan...it's like a loaded gun is pointed at everyone's head and sometimes those holding it have shakey hands>looks like all those "flower children" preaching peace and love are really just naive and childish and intellectualizing hedonism...>wait, why are all the manufacturing jobs evaporating..."rust belt"? what the hell is "stagflation"?>"end of history"? you really think Russia and China will just liberalize and accept they're not meant to be global hegemons because we let them make Levi's and send cultural exports like Harry Potter their way? >...
>>25492894fitting in yet buck?
>>25492828>WW1>Great Depression>WW2>post-war collapse of European global hegemony
>>25492828Border Trilogy is uplifting. Two men build a house and die for sex.
>>25492894Faggots did not like this post.
>>25492859Why do people use this line as an insult?Orwell,Harper Lee,Twain etc. didn't write books knowing it's going to be assigned to kids in high schools in future. It was meant to be read by adults!
>>25492828Mind control thing. Sad depressed hopeless population is easier to control.
>>25492828white people were scared because they couldn't stop slaughtering each other like retarded niggers
>>25492828https://youtu.be/Bq_bCXMxS_M
>>25492828Because they all just got done living through the most traumatic and destructive period of human history? It's not that hard to grasp OP.
>>25492828Hmm. I wonder what happened in about a 30 year period in the 20th century. Very interesting.Learn your history faggot
WWII wasn't THAT bad.
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>>25492828Nah, Svejk is really light-heartedhttps://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Good_Soldier:_Schweik
>>25492894quick anon what do you see in the following image
>>25492828Investigate what the lost and silent generation was like.
>>25496556I see two eminems throwing two doves at the viewer
>>25496578terminal case of internet brainrot, I'm afraid
Because the tribe took over and like to push ugliness and demoralization instead of beauty and joy. Any answer other than this one is wrong.
>>25496556the face of some kind of evil plushie idk
>>25492828Because the early to mid 20th century was fucking hell on Earth. Prostitutes in the streets as hellfire rained down from above.