/lit/ - Literature

/lit/, does there exist critical examination of contemporary (Western) society and modernity in general that is at least not 100% tendentious and/or apocalyptic and is not obnoxiously trying to """redpill""" you?

So far everything I've seen on the subject basically comes down to the author coming up with a provocative statement, such as "everything is porn/rape/muslamics/liberalism/ideology/etc", and then 'proving' it with claims about supposed elephants in the room or whatever

Case in point: a while ago some anon asked IIRC if there was something like Society of the Spectacle for the modern age. He was recommended The Last Psychiatrist. Now I had read his stuff about a year ago and was really disappointed, because it was "everything is porn" and even his subject matter (commercials, brand names, consumerism in general) seems like it was picked apart a hundred years ago. At some point he wrote "you can't get hard if the porn isn't in HD" or something like that, which is just fucking ridiculous even if it's an exaggeration.

/lit/, does there exist critical examination of contemporary (Western) society and modernity in general that is at least not 100% tendentious and/or apocalyptic and is not obnoxiously trying to """redpill""" you?

So far everything I've seen on the subject basically comes down to the author coming up with a provocative statement, such as "everything is porn/rape/muslamics/liberalism/ideology/etc", and then 'proving' it with claims about supposed elephants in the room or whatever

Case in point: a while ago some anon asked IIRC if there was something like Society of the Spectacle for the modern age. He was recommended The Last Psychiatrist. Now I had read his stuff about a year ago and was really disappointed, because it was "everything is porn" and even his subject matter (commercials, brand names, consumerism in general) seems like it was picked apart a hundred years ago. At some point he wrote "you can't get hard if the porn isn't in HD" or something like that, which is just fucking ridiculous even if it's an exaggeration.