/lit/ - Literature

I'm neutral on modernity but I'm interested in its effects on male virtues. In the past, when there were less people and less communication it was much easier for men to go out and distinguish themselves to "make a name". Now this claim may be disputed but it seems as if the pareto distribution of status and wealth is increasingly moving from 80/20 to 99/1 due to high communication and complexity which requires intense specialization and consequently relies even more on chance events. This may ultimately not be a problem because its quite clear that the forces of self-domestication have further reined in the effects of male aggression and our material comfort has a subduing effect. Anyway to keep this consise what I'll say this: there will be less men of action and more priests. The spiritual delmmia (which is intimately linked to first line of argumentation) will be solved more readily by the priestly virtues. This means a slow dissolving of ambition and ego along with ascetic practices of mind. It's all quite obvious. As the external world and its fruits disappear men will be forced ever more to the mountains to escape either the demoralizing reality that comes with ambition or the wretched ways of the rabble.

Books about people tortured by the life they've chosen?

Books about being too weak and cowardly to do the right thing?

Are there any great authors who are/were utter scum, complete degenerates, and almost subhuman?

I don't believe in politics, I don't believe in individuals thoughts, I don't believe in individual belief
What am I? I don't know