Why has a notable amount of famous authors committed suicide?
Why has a notable amount of famous authors committed suicide?
William Clark
Carson Barnes
They're batshit insane.
Luis Roberts
Citation needed
Zachary Johnson
Mental retardation. The literary establishment is attracted to books that are somehow related to or a result of mental retardation. Most of the people associating their careers with literature have a lot of symptoms of mental retardation, and if a book has retardation themes in it, implicit or explicit, the critic will be able to emphasize with it better and hence will like it more. Mentally retarded people are at odds with society - they feel excluded as they cannot perform daily functions as easily as regular people, they often have no friends, are depressed (IQ is negatively correlated with depression). Living the mentally retarded life is not easy. Inside a mentally retarded person's mind, an easy solution pops up - to kill themselves. Without thinking too much, they carry it out. Such is the literary life.
Jacob Jackson
This.
Nathan Russell
yet why so few philosophers do
Samuel Gray
I explained it in my post Being a good philosopher requires a high IQ.
Ayden Russell
We've got at least Hemingway, DFW, and Hunter S Thompson but I don't know any others.
Isaiah Carter
Fair
Tyler Miller
>IQ is negatively correlated with depression
ignorance is bliss
Logan Edwards
Sylvia Plath
Nathan Ortiz
You suck at reading comprehension. IQ is negatively correlated with depression means the higher your IQ is, the less likely you are to be depressed overall, not the other way around. Ignorance is pain.
Christopher Torres
Virginia Woolf killed herself. And Sylvia Plath. Mark Fisher. Deleuze. Weinenger. There's more I can't think of right now.
Nicholas Baker
Nathan Hernandez
retard
Sebastian Perez
>le the reason I’m sad is because I’m too smart
Landon Walker
>Osamu Dazai, John Kennedy Toole
Leo Jackson
>IQ is negatively correlated with depression
>IQ is negatively correlated with (increased) depression
>IQ is negatively correlated with (decreased) depression
>invokes ambiguity, a core aspect of reading comprehension
I did some research, there are articles and studies linking both high and low iq to depression, but for different reasons. So in all fairness, we are all wrong(and right).
Ignorance leads to pain through the complacency brought on by bliss, but is not pain itself.
Justin Wilson
literally me
Matthew Williams
Everyone I ever knew who said that was a low-iq "underachiever" coping with their failures.
Hudson Clark
Learn to read.
Charles Jones
WAAAAH IM SO SMART AND DEPRESSED
Jose Ortiz
Who hurt you?