/lit/ - Literature

The ending to Taxi Driver was not a fucking dream or fantasy. The protagonist was rewarded in the end for fulfilling his "destiny" so to speak, for being an active role in the narrative instead of the passive as a taxi driver who just watches everything happen from his car. The events that take place are completely absurd but this is meant as a reflection of the society he is living in, not as a reflection of his own delusion.

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You think everything within existence can't gratify you? You're either the most sophisticate creature to ever be or you over estimate yourself.

I don't "actively" enjoy anything but sometimes I catch myself in awe at how much I appreciate the un-afflicted night, to breathe the rarefied 5am air cold and crisp free from the presence of society, its weight deferred until the passing of the stars above . I believe I'd be happy in a lob cabin in Siberia or something. While that may not be possible I don't doubt it's true. That's a sort of hope, a proof of concept. There are simple pleasures in life that don't even occur to us in the unnatural state we call civilization.