Social Criticism Books

“By making even my very existence a myth and a philosophy, I forever banished from my presence those who do not know how to read these things—in other words, everyone.
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I see those whose ages haven’t even reached double digits spending from morning till evening with empty popular culture videos, writing to someone with a single click, or using emojis as love and thereby dehumanizing the other side by reducing them to a digital profile. Little children—even the girls—call each other with the slang “man” by default, and they call this “friendship.” Perhaps this process, which begins at age seven, continues until age seventeen when the person gets assimilated into the mainstream teenage culture, precisely because there is no obstacle in the way, because it is lived in a “free” world, and thus what emerges is a hollow, reactive, lustful, and aggressive—whether towards oneself or towards others—adolescent with tons of friends that chain them to the world but no inner life. I was able to liquidate this world because I did not have a group of friends, the very people who pull one back into this hell. I was entirely alone, and thus, by producing my own thoughts on my own, I gradually detached from this hallucination.
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It is impossible for the external world to be ontologically and epistemologically superior to the internal world of a person.
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If “gender nonconformists” were completely alone in the world, they wouldn’t still be so obsessed with gender transitioning or even the outward expression of their sexuality.
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Being “changeable” does not necessarily mean being open to views; most of the time, it means being defenseless to loss of self. A person who carries such a liquefied identity eventually drowns in its own water.
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I am not anti-social, not even “asocial”; I am post-social.
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A person who has spent long years under torture—whether physical, mental, existential, or otherwise—undergoes a mutation; they become sharp, hardened, independent, strategic, and essentialist, capable of sacrificing anyone and dismantling anything in order to preserve themselves and ensure the survival of their body. A war machine in flesh. The only thing that will attract society’s attention, however, is the question: “Why are you so ruthless?” A person shaped by long torment is inevitably transformed, just as metal is tempered in fire. That transformation, however, appears “monstrous” to those who never had to endure the furnace.
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When people say they feel lonely, I can’t believe it. Wasn’t solitude my monopoly? How can it exist in others too?
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People usually mean humanity when they use the word “life.” “Being detached from life” is not being cut off from life itself, but rather from people. “To have fallen out of life” actually means being distant not from life itself but from the community, since life is equated with it. “To be lost in life” is not about life itself but about being confused in a circus cloaking as reality. For if everyone except the individual were suddenly removed from the planet, expressions like “detached from life,” “fallen out of life,” or “lost in life” would completely lose their meaning, which is evidence that society is the only world the normative mind knows and is capable of imagining.
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Something that is right may not necessarily be valid. It may even be forbidden—but that cannot mean it is wrong. Yet in the minds of the vast majority, there arises, as a reflex, a negative prejudice toward anything condemned by society. For they have grown used to equating reality with validity. To them, if someone speaks the truth, he or she must be loved and respected by everyone. Yet the most sincere truth is preserved only in seclusion, through the endurance of profound loneliness for its sake.
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For someone that sees school as a place of learning, true learning becomes impossible.”
― Atrona Grizel (Sov8840)