Jerzy Kosinski wrote the Painted Bird in 1965.
An unnamed boy, separated from his parents during World War 2, wanders around Central Europe, going through unbelievable horrors which are too gruesome to retell here. Everyone he encountered was hostile to him, so he lost any faith on humanity.
After the war is over, he is put into an orphanage. Because of his hard experiences he has lost the ability to speak.
His parents, who somehow survived the war, takes him but when he arrived at his parents' house he was very, very, very dismayed to see a boy, adopted by the parents who thought the protagonist was dead, getting all the love and attention and since there were no bond between him and the parents they treat him like strangers.
He pleaded the parents to kick the boy out, but the parents refused so he broke the boy's arm. Thinking he was dangerous they send him away to a ski resort (read: the family was quite well to do), where he has a freak accident and dies. (That is the first edition. Since there were too much uproar that the ending was so anticlimactic, in subsequent editions the ending was changed - the boy could speak for the first time since for a long time. Kosinski hated that ending to his last day.)
He went through all the suffering, only to see a stranger getting all the love and affection. He would have been very, very angry.
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Tl, dr, Big Hit will debut a boy group in the 3rd Quarter of 2025.
Is this the right way to treat BTS?
Did Big Hit, directly under the control of Bang, have to debut an idol right when BTS is returning, to show that Big Hit really doesn't need BTS?
Did they have to do it?
And did the members of the new group have any kind of respect? If they did they would at least have asked to change their debut date so it would not conflict to BTS' returns.
No. None of them did. All of them were eager to debut so none of them gave a second thought about BTS.
I have been outraged in the last few weeks. Upset that Illit, which will never amount to New Jeans' potentials, went in front of NJ's way and ticked off MHJ; upset that IU , who will never really be relevant outside of Korea, has reached the #1 celebrity position; and now BTS' return is met by Big Hit releasing a new act right when they return, to show that they are not really needed anymore.
After Bang flip-flopping about their military service and then throwing them under the bus because he did not want to pay back money from Korean investors, they are met by a new boy act whose debut will further postpone BTS' return and hinder its schedules.
Shouldn't the BTS members now out say something that their debut hinders BTS' return as a whole, especially when the debut of txt in 2019 had hindered a lot of BTS' plans?
Personally, other than Seokjin and maybe Namjun, I don't see BTS members remaining in Hybe after their contracts are over, especially when Big Hit, their home turf, treats it like this.
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