>>24518929>Its the literary equivalent of depicting your opposition as the basedjak and yourself as the gigachadYou understand this and youre REALLY surprised how it gained prominence? One day youll escape the naivete of thinking that critics, and broad literary understanding and perception is anything but a social activity to affirm and confirm ones biases. Why do you think "death of the author" is so prevalent? if I can derive any personal decided value from a book, then its really all about me, and in a sense the world is just whatever exists to appeal to and validate "me". Things do not exist independently, externally, to be appreciated or understood.