/lit/ - Literature

It’s ironic, really. Postmodernism was cooked up after the horrors of the two World Wars, because people thought the “old values” led them into that horrible carnage. They thought those values had to be torn down and replaced with new ones, so they set out to “deconstruct” everything.

But now, some eighty or so years later, that same postmodernism they pioneered is leading us towards the exact same kind of carnage. The whole “there is no such thing as objective truth” approach has turned out to be EXTREMELY appealing to liars (who woulda thunk?), and now everyone has retreated into their own little universes, which reinforce their worldviews and teach them to despise all others.

People have no psychological defenses against the most blatant of falsehoods nowadays, and it looks like everything’s about to explode. The movement has failed on every level.

>>21968579
>Captive Audience
Shitty horror novel no. 28349 by Stephen King. It's about a mentally unstable man who kidnaps young women and forces them to watch old romance films, hoping that they will eventually fall in love with him. Of course, since this is a King novel, the story begins meandering heavily around page 412 as the author - yet again - inserts another thinly veiled rant about his childhood misgivings. By about page 783, the story transforms into a psychological eldritch horror, as the man doing the kidnapping suddenly realizes that each of the women he has captured were actually hallucinations of his mother. The inevitable film adaptation follows the source material very closely, barring that one pedophilic scene which was quietly cut from the screenplay.
>The Trash Compactor
Graphic novel about a neo-gothic antihero named the "Trash Compactor". It's loosely inspired by The Crow, as it follows the tragic story of a spurned businessman who is attacked by a gang of thugs and thrown into a cursed landfill. In his meagre attempts to escape, he slips and falls into hydraulic press, emerging several days later from the refuse as a being of pure garbage; a being of pure justice.
>Do Eggs Dream of Chickens
Seminal science fiction novel about using infant brains to access the fifth dimension and the pathways of ancestral blood memories. There is an extremely high budget series adaptation of the book on Amazon Prime, but the director is a complacent toady without a single credit to his name, and the show is summarily canceled.

Please post your most notable pieces, either fiction, poetry, non-fiction from any &amp issue. If you have any analytical or critical comments on that piece, that'd be cool to read.

>>21810774
Family good, groomers bad. Simple as.

>>19501798
Gonna read those you listed
>>19501851
Like this anon said: >>19501868
and also because in third world hellholes you are dealing with "people" with a iq below average, monkey tier, they wont understand what you are saying, Zarathustra.
>>19501903
Mexico
>>19501909
Thats because most of the "people" that flee are illegals, porly educated, low iq, i understand your feeling.
>>19501998
;_;