Do u see it as an unhealthy reaction to unhealthy circumstances?
Or is it all subjective to u
It depends of the purpose one set in mind about walking into a quasi-monastical lifestyle.
If your intention is driven into upwardly beneficial self-improvement and walking away from a toxic environment or social background pervasively meant to stunt you on various or all matters (social, financial, educational, psychological, ideological, moral, professional, mental, spiritual, sexual and physical) , to set you up to fail or to fold yourself in the crab's barrel eben if that meant breaking you down and prevent your self-growth nay your literal existence, then yes tough matters has to he done to grow.
I know it's just a film, but think about Henry Cavill's Clark Kent iteration during his fifteen-years long globe-trotting journey for spiritual growth and self-discovery in
Man Of Steel. Or how Bruce Wayne spent many years educating himself, training, pushing his body, mind and spirit to the edge and learn on all trades in order to attain his goal in every iteration of Batman. Or even Edmond Dantès in
The Count of Monte Cristo.
It's all about
self-growth and get in touch with his true potential through the medium of a transformative journey marked by countless hardships, ups-and-downs, baser temptations and a true test of character. This trope in mankind's both ontological, cross-cultural, theological, artistic and mediatic frameworks predates both Western and Japanese civilizations, being as old as the Sumerian
Epic of Gilgamesh (2400 BCE) nay the Egyptian
myth of Horus The Younger (around 3500 - 3100 BCE) . One man or more-but-human character faces up an overarching
pathos, questions the status quo that steads one society or oecumenia, then after a series of arduous, seemingly insurmountable trials he come back a new man or godlike figure. Most every deity, folk hero, seer, wizard, savior king/queen or prophet in world's cultures has to cross that one golden path.
But from the downside... we also observe more radical clades of that monastical approach of life like the one that plagues younger generations of socially reclusive men in Japan, the
hikikomori. These cases doesn't contribute to truthfully improve themselves (and at some extent, society) . They remain ontologially, metaphysically,
literally stagnant and nihilist: their sole intent is to trample or kamikaze themselves away of the gene pool and nothing else; to break the cycle of life and death - or cycle of reincarnations in Oriental religions - by a painfully exhaustive form of non-lethal harakiri.
At least, truest kamikazes were indeed but fanatical, race suprematist sheeps. But they were not godless nor self-misguided. Men needs either or both.
These people are not a positive example of this trope. And the current self-styled "MGTOWs" begotten by the second wave incel movement is now setting ablaze the West with this newest "anti-philosophy" ... but for burning down a village, we have first to abandon a child in need of warmth. For a forest to set ablaze itself, it needs suffocating warmth and too much carbon contained in its sole and trees.
