/lit/ - Literature

It is exciting to believe in traditional values and strength today because we live in an age where these are countercultural values. Being conservative is akin to rebellion today. But I feel like I am too conservative, which inflames my fear of bias. I want the widest possible view on things. I want to understand how the other side thinks–not through the watered down, indolent propaganda that gets shuttled into minds from media today, but through the artifacts of a time when these opposing values were in their vital, striving, rebellious state. Who or what do you recommend I read?