Men my age dictate this war. Why should we be allowed to send our children to fight it?
“van gogh ate yellow paint because-” he was suicidal, karen
“If Van Goah had antidepressants, we wouldn’t have his artwo-” We’d have a lot more of his work, Karen, and who the fuck cares about what we get from him he deserved to be well, karen.
“he cut his ear off for a woman because he lo-” because he was mentally ill, Karen.
“I didn’t know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.”
— Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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