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brileigh
@brileigh
something I’ve been struggling to put into words lately is how disconnected I feel to the media around us in movies, books, etc. like everytime I go to a contemporary book store, all I pick up is novels involving various tragedies of abuse, r@pe, death, poverty, struggling artist etc. and I’m not *trying* to find them, it’s just everywhere It just gets to a certain point where I don’t want to re-traumatize myself of all the stuff I’ve already experienced in life and still go through?? It’s not like I need escapist euphoria either but it seems reflective of how people want to feel or are being conditioned to feel and I just feel disconnected lately I also wonder if this is something that is representative of a democratic victim identity mindset? Like I genuinely wonder how someone who is far right has felt over the last 4+ years when it comes to finding media they consume. not necessarily saying this is a bad thing either, I think these stories are important in their own way
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kbc
@kbc
Here are some suggestions. Little note: small things like these is based on contemporary Irish history. Recently turned into a movie and people said it’s super powerful. It talks about a taboo topic (mother child homes run by nouns)
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kbc
@kbc
No-show was not my type of book. Lying life of adults was good but maybe not what you want to read now. Lesson in chemistry was too political for me (it read at times like a manifesto). Here one moment recommended on Twitter and better than I expected.
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brileigh
@brileigh
thanks for sharing 💞 it’s funny you mentioned Irish history, @matthewb was mentioning I should get into some history since I started Graeber’s Debt book recently.
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kbc
@kbc
It’s not a traditional history book. It’s also not about The troubles, civil war or English occupation. It touches a big human topic: what to do with kids out of wedlock and their mothers (because the fathers aren’t the problem) in a society controlled by the Catholic Church?
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