/lit/ - Literature

Does your family ever make you seethe with anger?
I'm normally a chill guy, and can brush off insults if thrown at me by someone else. But any condescending comment I get from my family makes me irrationally angry. It has such an accusatory tone, like everything I do is inherently wrong. Maybe its a me thing, maybe I just need to not care but man, it's tough to let it get out of your head when you're living in the same house.

Had to console a friend after she had broken off her with her ex (4 months back) and saw him already with another girl. In part she's got herself to blame to expect anything from him and he's got no obligation since the relationship ended. But I wonder how or why someone people are so fast with rebounding with another person immediately after break up.

If you're reading this, heed to my simple advice when it comes to consoling someone who's grieving who lost their love on:
Don't console people by talking about yourself. Not when it comes to what you've been through as well or going through as well. They may not say it but at the back of their heads they'll remember the dumbass way you handled it.

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The narcissism of those privileged with "oppressed" status knows no bounds. They literally have no idea what they're dismissing.

Show me a human being with even partial subSaharan African ancestry who can make any sense at all of Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer. Just one.

Hell even the black Shakespeare scholars don't know what the fuck they're reading.

Today morning I read about a case of a japanese girl who was held captive for 44 days in a well-off house were she was raped, tortured, victim of a many other torments and then killed.
The specifics are gruesome, but the thing that shook me the most was that at least a hundred people knew what was happening, and they were either accomplices or did nothing to help, and only four people (all minors) were convicted with lenient sentences.
This ruined my day pretty much, and I can't stop thinking about it. A quote from Theoden came to my mind: "So much death. What can men do against such reckless hate?" However the truth is that there are no good guys vs bad guys in the real world, they are among us, and one day you could be kind to someone without realizing that he is no man, but a beast with human hide.
Recommend me books that will help me make peace with the fact that people can be this cruel. Also if you have knowledge of japanese culture and can enlighten me about what happened here; I've read the sailor who fell from grace with the sea and it's creepy to think that perhaps the teenagers that commited this crime had something in mind similar to the kids who killed the sailor.