/lit/ - Literature

>>20351989
>post yfw "He broke my heart, you merely broke my life"

What are some books that will make you accept your ugliness?

>>18660807
>800 pages of edgar allan poe to get through
>havent touched the book in a month

>weak men create hard times
>hard times create....strong men?
Let me start by saying that I dont think this is the case anymore, I would definitely understand how this statement could have been relevant 200, 500 or 1000 years ago but not anymore. Let me explain you why...

Hard times are created by weak men who inherited a world where everything was already built for them, major problems and societal issues solved and in an era where peace and safety was the norm. These men, having faced no real challenges or adversity in their entire lives start looking for abstract (moral, ethical, religious, political, environmental,etc) issues or problems to identify with, with the hopes of giving their worthless, material and individualistic lives some sort of higher meaning, and with the aspiration of belonging to a greater cause and/or to a larger group. 1000 years ago, this larger group ago would have been our tribe, our village, the empire or the nation but with our current globalist and interconnected reality that has also changed. People don't identify with their neighbors anymore, when was the last time you spoke to your neighbors or the people from your local community? Our tribe and therefore our modern identity is now defined by our interests and hobbies, our political affiliations, the shows normies watch, the people we follow on social media, who we vote for, the music we listen, etc... For example a redditor subconsciously perceives his favorite subreddit as his archetypal tribe, as his people and regards everyone who explicitly disagrees with him as an outsider, therefore not only will he distrust him but he will rarely agree with them even though he is presented with facts that contradict his narrative and way of thinking. This can be applied to any other NPC and whatever "community" or "social group" he identifies with.

So, the first major realization is that no matter what happens in our reality, these npcs and weak beta soibois will never change their way of thinking because its precisely this way of thinking that gives them their public identity, their Persona or "Mask" according to Jungian psychology. Paradoxically, these individuals see themselves as unique and different when in fact they are a just a general copy of the other people from their same ideological tribe.

How do I read? I can’t sit and read more than a few pages before I have to get up and go on the internet again

How do I get over the schizophrenic fear that if I show somebody my work and can't physically be there to kill them they'll steal it? It's not bad with actual friends or family because they know not to fuck with me or I'd go insane, but I can't really do anything about showing my work to people online for critique. I badly want some advice and some validation to at least know there'd be one entirely unobliged stranger out there who would read my shit and enjoy it when it's done, but I can't bring myself to post any writing or art anywhere.