archangelleramielle [none/use name]

Scientism, broadly. Anything with a way of knowing. That way the academic subject can advance human knowledge.

lol the meme was right

it doesn’t make any difference to the story or to real life

what difference does it make

it’s not real, it’s just random shit

It is just a wank. That is all literature analysis is. Its value is that people enjoy arguing about the fun parts of a story.

For some reason it has turned into something like numerology but with academic clout. People do free association between symbols in their favorite literature, and they think they are both doing critical thinking and learning something about the world. But it will never be a legitimate academic subject, because it has no way of knowing.

according to Sapolsky, stuff like this is plausibly the result of a obsessive compulsive personality disorder among shamans

do whatever