/lit/ - Literature

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>>22689836
>None of them reads books.” The only culture they have, he said, is “cancel culture”

>>22674935

>It is thus dangerous to create madmen without ceremony, particularly in our time, when everything moves so rapidly that last year's Utopia is today's commonplace. As recently as a year ago, in a book, Du Delire chez les degeneres, that was published in Paris, a Dr Legrain included the follow-ing among the symptoms of insanity: an unsociable temperament, a prefer-ence for vegetarianism, kindness to animals, ideas about a world republic, and arguments in favour of disarmament, along with attempts at improv-ing the world and a striving for equality, and other suchlike things. It cannot be gainsaid that a great deal of our contemporary desire to reform the world stems from our being so highly strung, an inability to bear things as they are, and that a large part of the suffering humanity that disturbs us neuropaths so much ought to be categorised as over-refined humanity.

August Strindberg, Soul Murder (Apropos Rosmersholrn)