Declaring Wars

I don't like 'alt lit.' To be honest, I fucking hate 'alt lit.' It's supposed to be this new, young form of literature, and the people who write it are usually teenagers or in their early twenties or at least under 30. The whole thing mainly takes place on the internet, the writers write and exist on the internet, and the internet is what they write about.

Okay, so I'm always looking for young writers, and here they are. Are they the future of literature? I fucking hope not.

I found this documentary about a young writer named Zachary German:

All I can say is: WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE? As personalities they seem intelligent and kind and complex, but as artists they are nothing. They are just soulless hipsters writing about "The awkward moment when [enter something cute and uninteresting]". They are clones, every single one of them is the same as all the others, and they have no understanding of... well, anything important. The most painful thing about this is that they do have potential, they do have minds and hearts, souls and bodies. They just simply don't use them at all, because all of them want to be in the Gang; they want to be what it means to be Alt Lit, and what is means is excrutiatingly boring. It's like a collective psychosis.

They could burn, burn, burn, but instead they've decided to sit in front of their computers and giggle and eat cute biscuits and look for the easiest way to get as many retweets as possible.

Where's the fire? I don't understand. What's wrong with these people? What are they doing? Why all the weird blankness? Why so boring?

I guess one of my duties on this Earth is to rise against this kind of 'literature' and be something completely different, something breathing, something exciting, something raw, something antihipster, something burning.

We'll see, we'll see.