“Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.”
It’s arguably the most famous opening line in 20th century fiction. The predicament in which Franz Kafka’s “Joseph K.” finds himself is even more chillingly relevant today as it was in 1920.
Not only was Kafka lucky enough to have died before the Holocaust he’d intuited was on the horizon, but he missed far, far lesser scourges, like internet trolls and slanderers.
If Kafka was alive and writing on the web today, he’d have dozens of online stalkers, making fun of him for living with his parents and having really big ears.
He might even be subject to “lawfare” for his “controversial” blogging. (…)
The good news is, there are ways to dial down this annoying din, and these methods work for everybody…
