/lit/ - Literature

>>16035654
What are some good historical fiction depicting massacres and wars from civillians perspective?

>>14984263
Because he was always cerebral and his inner voice(s) was always too much intellectual to allow to mimic the failures that human psychology produces. Intellectual people idealize everyone, including stupidity (which they themselves have in minor forms), and never understand it really or how people can be dumb, so they tend to be much complacent to others, in a mix of inferiority vs superiority. You need to not like things to be able to like them sincerely later, and as you mature you notice the things you liked the most are the ones you like less. People, but tastes mostly.
A too cerebral person might be so sticky with the rational (but not sxactly most logic) perspective, root it the most and not allow the fluidity of mind failure and, honestly, laziness, that one needs to experience to then become full. Thats why writing dialogue, which should be the easiest and just replicating voices with their differences, turns out to be so hard, the hardest part. The funniest is, they sure hold great conversations themselvss, be it here on lit on some good threads or with a few also intellectual friends, but the dialogue part fails so much. Many times they also just cant really create an autonomous protagonist or characterr that doesnt be, even if they try the hardest (and they do try), the reflection if their ideas, many times and I believe this was blooms mistake, the reflection of literature itself.
And now this wasnt something that should have been written, especially here in this place where people are too smart intellectually but sometimes feel too "special", even in their failures. I hope you still take it well, and i know many people here can do great things.

>>14969729
My grandmother took a major preceddnt in my education, for most of my life i viewed her more favourably than my own mother, fortunely maturity made me love both. She had a small personal library in her apartment, even if she never read anything to me from there I got to pick some classics from there and History books which I loved. The classics were from xixth and xxth century portuguese authors.
Ive called her a few days ago, thanks anon.

Not a day goes by where I don't say "society" at least once.

It seems to me that we live in a post-truth, post-politics, post-history world. The way of thinking of people has changed. Thought is scattered, disjointed, detached. There is no framework to anchor thought in Western civilization anymore. Everything feels fragmented, divorced from any sort of context, and I blame WWII for this paradigm shift. To the average Western mind, history starts with WWII. Everything that came before is too remote and detached from current reality, to the point that it cannot understand the pre-WWII world in anything but an abstract level. Just like a peasant from the Middle Ages would be incapable of comprehending the modern world, so too is modern man incapable of comprehending the past after a certain point.

There is no guidance anymore, not from God, the church, the government, the education system, no one. The only things they offer are lies. Only in this environment will we see the rise of the Übermensch amongst the Last Men.

Pic related, it's what I desire. I want to become a giant, a colossus, on a physical, mental and spiritual level, so that one day I'll be strong enough to raise my fists and smash this society to pieces.