/lit/ - Literature

>>12050382
That's exactly my point. The "West" is sick and decadent and stuck in a positive feedback loop that gets worse by the day. This explains the rise of ultra-conservative and reactionary groups in some countries around the world, and it's where you get the school shooters and rampage killers. This is a realization that's been around in its current form for probably over a hundred years and it's very obvious in literature all over the world, from the United States to Europe to Japan (chief among them might be The Sound and the Fury and The Setting Sun, but again the motif is everywhere).

As technology and modern ideology invade life, meaning and understanding trade places with comfort and ridiculous egalitarian "objectivity" notions. Human interaction has already become forever malformed by technology under our noses. Institutions that are supposed to serve the public good (that is, yours and mine) like law enforcement and justice and government become robotic monolithic institutions that forsake any understanding or human element. Input facts, output judgment. The human is forgone. You see this in all big cities, and of course it's no great mystery why this is where all the fucked up people come from. It's not overstating the problem to say that mankind has become infected and the treatment will not come before the realization that the illness exists comes (ie when the feedback loop becomes too titanic to ignore). WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY where nobody knows or thinks about the endgame that they argue for, even when it's plain and obvious and out in the open.

As that literature I mentioned might tell us, the best way to live in light of this is to acknowledge it and try to rise above it. Find something or someone you love and live for that.

For me, it's Costa Rica (not that the country doesn't have it's own share of brutal problems).