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JCPRuckus t1_ivhhqej wrote

Turns out most people don't want true freedom.

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Thermon01 OP t1_ivhjr0b wrote

Most people can't just sacrifice their families

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JCPRuckus t1_ivho9d2 wrote

Yes, it was meant as a critique of the quote, not a critique of the people who don't see losing everything and gaining true freedom as a positive. It's not. True freedom is dying in the woods somewhere, because you're all alone and life is incredibly hard without society (and all its limits on your freedom).

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inotparanoid t1_ivin2c7 wrote

A lot of these questions are explored in Berserk, the manga. I doesn't give you a definite answer, but it does give you certain illustrations about life.

The most important lesson I take from it is that if you've got a sword, swing it. Demons will get you in the end, but till that time...

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Goldmansachs3030 t1_iviqaom wrote

Man, that manga is bad. That women is an unreal depiction of a survivor. Why people like that when they massacred the MC emotionally?

MC should just power up and kill the guy, but then i know, FMC will come as always and defend her rapist.

She should set her heart on one man only. The one who has been with her.Even the trauma flashback she gets is on see guts, not on the rapist. Intentional drama.

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inotparanoid t1_ivirrvr wrote

It's got it's flaws, but Berserk is one of the best Manga, nay, one of the best fiction ever written.

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Regi0 t1_iviy9x4 wrote

No offense but what the fuck does berserk have to do with anything

It honestly sounds like you just wanted to talk about it and needed an excuse

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inotparanoid t1_ivizcji wrote

You're kind of right. For some reason when I read that passage, I thought of Berserk. It's not the only thing in fiction which explores that specific idea of incomprehensible loneliness and pain: there are many others, including One Hundred Years of Solitude, though in a very different way than the others, Kafka on the Shore, A Wizard of Earthsea... So many others.

But what they have in common is the rejection of a destiny, the contemplation of loneliness, the struggle of life, brought out in all of its forms.

Berserk, the manga, falls right into the middle of it. It's visceral, but it talks about struggling against a destiny of death. And that's life.

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