/lit/ - Literature

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>another /lit/-anon railing against the esoteric heresy that plagues this board

very based my brother in christ

A friend of mine (weirdly, someone with strong Marxist sympathies) gave me a copy of Decline of the West and I kind of went down that rabbit hole. I've now ended up reading Man and Technics and a bunch of Guenon essays, and have grown more religious.The fiction I've been reading lately has mostly been translations of early 20th century Japanese stuff, and most of what I read coincidentally had themes about anomie, depression, loneliness, and social disintegration being caused by modernization (Snow Country, Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea, Some Prefer Nettles, The Setting Sun). I feel like the combination of all of this unscrewed my head a little, and I can't stop thinking about unpleasant things like the seeming inevitability of my country going to war in the next decade or the fact that the people I see when I'm running errands are just going through their daily routines without thinking about our civilization disintegrating. The worst part is that it feels like I can't do anything about it because I'm just one person. Am I misunderstanding things? I want to go back to being convinced that things are not going to get worse, or at least convinced that I can do anything about it as an individual. I've tried retreating into religion but I'm too worried that our children's and grandchildren's generations are going to have to bear the brunt of all of this if nothing is done to make things better. What can I read to fix this?

best girl