Why do people become manchildren? Why do they read genre fiction and comics, play video games...

You seriously must have heard about Jordan Peterson by now. He deals with this sort of thing routinely.

>asks why adults become manchildren
>posts a pic of a bunch of teens

pop culture has replaced high art.

these man children have become the connoisseurs of our time. sorry about it.

> adults become manchildren
Aren't they manchildren pricelessly because they didn't become adult?

Because none of those things were originally for "children" at all, but made by adults to be enjoyed by other adults. Also adult has the mental capacity to appreciate good art in a comic or a good story far more than a child. It wouldn't make sense to have entire mediums devoted exclusively for children.
>Gener fiction
Existed for thousands of years
>Comics
An art style.
>Video games
Again, and art style with varying degrees of challenges and potential plots. fyi the first video game (pong) was made and enjoyed by military scientist. Not kiddos.
>Star treck
See above
>anime
See above
>cosplay
Actually a mature activity, also one that always existed.

They are a product of mental sicknesses that infests the west these days.

>cosplay
>mature

How is watching Star Trek or Evangelion any less mature than watching Real Madrid vs Barcelona or an NBA game?

Obviously because they can. Life in Western countries in general is pretty easy, so both women and men can delay adulthood.

t. Guy who posts on Veeky Forums

>Cherry picked image
useless. Adults have more capacity to appreciate the anonymity of hiding ones identity, acting a role and going though the trouble of creating/buying a custom than children do.

>cherrypicked

the maturity charts are off the scale

so... this is power of adulthood...

>cherrypicking
mmmm so many cherries

Half of these retards are women. So why is it “man”children? Why are women excused from acting like children?

FEAR MY MATURITY WEAKLING

They are?

because OP is a pseud.

Because women can't be manchildren. Ugly women are pretending to be geeks to attentionwhoring.

OP literally says manchildren. Man+Children.

>implying women arent human aka man

t. edgy fascist

Are you retard? Op said
>people
and op-picture contains women. Are your eyes tired of watching anime all day?

>implying that's not true

...

I dunno, people from pics are probably more successful in life than OP.

Fun is bad. The only purpose of people is to make money for rich guys.

What so bad about giving money to rich? Are you commie?

What do you expect men to do in a post history world?

Talk to a Vietnam vet or read about the after effects of WWI.

whats wrong with doing these things as long as you keep to yourself?

REEEE YOU SHOULD WATCH ANIME FOR NOT BEING NORMIE!!!

>t. never served.
The military is literally filled with the above types.

>DUDE CLEAN YOUR OWN ROOM LMAO

>people have hobbies they enjoy
>this is somehow bad

>How does modern philosopher explain it?
Adding that line doesn't make your thread Veeky Forums related you faggot.

When fat ugly people do it then it's bad.

Hedonism.
It is alright to enjoy what you like, but talking about it in social media and having those anime pins or related shit is definitely not good for oneself and society in general (those assumptions of anime people being pedos because of lolis, etc.)

Poor diet, no exercise and excessive porn. and of course, alienation

>ITT: Manlets judge other manlets on why they are manlets

> Talking about anime is bad.
I dunno, do you want social media to investigate how much Donald in cahoots with Russia instead?

What makes those things immature?
Because a haughty retard who thinks he's better than others like you decided so?

t.manchild

literally jews

>The manletcave.png
Well, we shouldn't leave the lolis behind g8 m8

>PRETEND IT'S THE 50'S!

Based Jews

And your dad pretends to be a man.

>hormones in food
>massive amounts of soy
>Skinner box mechanics in games
An entire generation raised by vidya and TV. To this day I seek the approval of Hank Hill and Homer Simpson over my own parents.

Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung developed a school of thought called analytical psychology, distinguishing it from the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud (1856–1939). In analytical psychology (often called "Jungian psychology") the puer aeternus is an example of what Jung called an archetype, one of the "primordial, structural elements of the human psyche".[3]

The shadow of the puer is the senex (Latin for "old man"), associated with the god Cronus—disciplined, controlled, responsible, rational, ordered. Conversely, the shadow of the senex is the puer, related to Hermes or Dionysus—unbounded instinct, disorder, intoxication, whimsy.[4]

Like all archetypes, the puer is bi-polar, exhibiting both a "positive" and a "negative" aspect. The "positive" side of the puer appears as the Divine Child who symbolizes newness, potential for growth, hope for the future. He also foreshadows the hero that he sometimes becomes (e.g. Heracles). The "negative" side is the child-man who refuses to grow up and meet the challenges of life face on, waiting instead for his ship to come in and solve all his problems.

"For the time being one is doing this or that... it is not yet what is really wanted, and there is always the fantasy that sometime in the future the real thing will come about.... The one thing dreaded throughout by such a type of man is to be bound to anything whatever."[5]

"Common symptoms of puer psychology are dreams of an imprisonment and similar imagery: chains, bars, cages, entrapment, bondage. Life itself...is experienced as a prison."[4]

When the subject is a female the Latin term is puella aeterna, imaged in mythology as the Kore (Greek for "maiden").[6] One might also speak of a puer animus when describing the masculine side of the female psyche, or a puella anima when speaking of a man's inner feminine component.

>this triggers the roasties

C.G. Jung wrote a paper on the puer aeternus, "The Psychology of the Child Archetype", contained in Part IV of The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (Collected Works, Vol. 9i). The hero-child aspect and his relationship to the Great Mother is dealt with in chapters 4 and 5 of Part Two of Symbols of Transformation (Collected Works, Vol. 5).[7] In his essay "Answer to Job" (contained in Psychology and Religion: West and East, Vol. 11 of the Collected Works; but also published separately) Jung refers to the puer aeternus as a figure representing the future psychological development of human beings.

"That higher and 'complete' (teleios) man is begotten by the 'unknown' father and born from Wisdom, and it is he who, in the figure of the puer aeternus—'vultu mutabilis albus et ater'[8]—represents our totality, which transcends consciousness. It was this boy into whom Faust had to change, abandoning his inflated onesidedness which saw the devil only outside. Christ's 'Except ye become as little children' prefigures this change, for in them the opposites lie close together; but what is meant is the boy who is born from the maturity of the adult man, and not the unconscious child we would like to remain."[9]

The Problem of the Puer Aeternus is a book based on a series of lectures that Jungian analyst Marie-Louise von Franz gave at the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich, during the Winter Semester, 1959–1960. In the first eight of twelve lectures, von Franz illustrates the theme of the puer aeternus by examining the story of The Little Prince from the book of the same name by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The remaining four lectures are devoted to a study of a German novel by Bruno Goetz, Das Reich ohne Raum (The Kingdom Without Space), first published in 1919. Of this novel von Franz says:

"It is interesting that it was written and published before the Nazi movement came into being in 1933, before Hitler was ruminating on his morbid ideas. Bruno Goetz certainly had a prophetic gift about what was coming, and ... his book anticipates the whole Nazi problem, throwing light upon it from the angle of the puer aeternus".[10]

Now or Neverland is a 1998 book written by Jungian analyst Ann Yeoman dealing with the puer aeternus in the form of Peter Pan, one of the most well-known examples of the concept in the modern era. The book is a psychological overview of the eternal boy archetype, from its ancient roots to contemporary experience, including a detailed interpretation of J. M. Barrie's popular play and novel.

"Mythologically, Peter Pan is linked to...the young god who dies and is reborn...as well as to Mercury/Hermes, psychopomp and messenger of the gods who moves freely between the divine and human realms, and, of course, to the great goat-god Pan.... In early performances of Barrie's play, Peter Pan appeared on stage with both pipes and a live goat. Such undisguised references to the chthonic, often lascivious and far from childlike goat-god were, not surprisingly, soon excised from both play and novel."[11]

problem with this sort of thinking is that you forget art was never for the common man but for aristocrats to feel superior about

t. "mature" individual

I see, the ideology of biological failure reporting in.

This is why pop culture is better than high art.

Peter Pan syndrome is the pop-psychology concept of an adult who is socially immature. The category is an informal one invoked by laypeople and some psychology professionals in popular psychology. It is not listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and is not recognized by the American Psychiatric Association as a specific mental disorder.
Psychologist Dan Kiley popularized the Peter Pan syndrome in his 1983 book, The Peter Pan Syndrome: Men Who Have Never Grown Up." His next book, The Wendy Dilemma (1984), advises women romantically involved with "Peter Pans" how to improve their relationships. An example of the Peter Pan syndrome is used in Aldous Huxley's 1962 novel Island, in which one of the characters talks about male "dangerous delinquents" and "power-loving troublemakers" who are "Peter Pans." These types of males were "boys who can't read, won't learn, don't get on with anyone, and finally turn to the more violent forms of delinquency." He uses Adolf Hitler as an archetype of this phenomenon
>A Peter Pan if ever there was one. Hopeless at school. Incapable either of competing or co- operating. Envying all the normally successful boys—and, because he envied, hating them and, to make himself feel better, despising them as inferior beings. Then came the time for puberty. But Adolf was sexually backward. Other boys made advances to girls, and the girls responded. Adolf was too shy, too uncertain of his manhood. And all the time incapable of steady work, at home only in the compensatory Other World of his fancy. There, at the very least, he was Michelangelo. Here, unfortunately, he couldn't draw. His only gifts were hatred, low cunning, a set of indefatigable vocal cords and a talent for nonstop talking at the top of his voice from the depths of his Peter-Panic paranoia. Thirty or forty million deaths and heaven knows how many billions of dollars—that was the price the world had to pay for little Adolf's retarded maturation.