/lit/ - Literature

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>Books about curbstomping liberals, nu-women, celebs, and jews?
>Did the Holocaust really happen? Even Peterson thinks Hitler was satan
>What was meant by this /lit/? Is it true that people should stop reading white males authors?
>I took a Chicano Studies class to raise my GPA and "because of the recent tragedy at Charlottesville" I have to write a 5 page essay on this book.
>[Marx thread]Uhhhh, look at me! I'm a massive faggot! Uhhhh, seize the means of production!
>If America is the culmination of Western white civilization, as everyone from the Left to the Right declares, then there must be something terribly wrong with Western white...
>PREACH SISTER! Don't you just *hate* neurotic white male writers /lit/?
>what are the best books on gender studies?

Are there any books about this phenomenon? About people actively seeking out things on social media to get outraged about? Or about people who all agree on something -- e.g. the inferiority of other races, or women, or how dumb liberals are, which 4chan ostensibly does -- but nevertheless feel the compulsion to endlessly regurgitate the same stuff either by indulging in clickbait articles, falseflagging, etc.?
To me, it seems like the most inane thing imaginable, so I'd like to understand the psychology. You see the same thing when you go to /pol/ and, I'm sure, it's left-wing equivalent: people who go to great lengths to create an strawmanned Other but still incessantly have to keep reminding themselves to keep fanning the flame or reducing the perceived evil Other to a charicatured ideological figure. Same for, say, /r9k/ and how everything revolves around female inferiority, etc.
I genuinely want to understand the workings of such a mentality, so I would love some recommendations. It's such a weird phenomenon. I'm sure ressentiment is a huge part of it.

And before people feel butthurt, we can all agree that this also happens on other sites, with different political leanings. I merely want to read about something that I find so weird when I browse this particular site, i.e. people who purport to be convinced of something, but nevertheless have to keep reminding themselves by actively seeking out things to get outraged about.

>>9288086
THE DUST NEVER SETTLES ANYWHERE
ALL IS FLUX

>If there were no sun, it would be night.

What did he mean by this?