/lit/ - Literature

The world has become consumed by hate. People hate their lives and are sold hatred of others by con-men who justify that hate. Politics has become omnipresent, social discourse is effectively dead as people infested by viralized hate are compelled to make others hate along with them. 4chan is a microcosm of this, the core dysfunction magnified to extremes due to anonymity and mutual reinforcement. What frameworks explain this explosion of hate, and more importantly, can give direction to solve the problem? If this continues it will only lead to war when the maelstrom of hatred requires more than just words to satisfy it.

Bertrand Russell's wisdom about living is more relevant now than it ever has been: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYEI6jWT244