/lit/ - Literature

>>12631601
here's one way i might like to approach these issues: the Do-Over button.

imagine if you *had* a Do-Over button. this is the subtext of ITB, after all. you can't repair the breach in the time-loop itself, but you can increasingly come to understand that said breach is feature and not bug. achieving Peak Irony and Peak Simulation is a rather unique problem and at the same time an entirely ancient one. the tragic and cyclical nature of human achievement was no doubt understood by the Greeks and by Hegel as well, and by the time you get to Ye Olde Faster-Goers that are Land et al that intimation is in full swing. /lit/ has also remarked that Kafka is peak cybernetics and that too seems pretty good to me. so here we are.

*kindness* is an unusually refreshing idea, you know? it really is. it means allowing things out in the kingdom of the blind, going carefully through the underworld. it seems enough to me sometimes to *just be kind,* to wait and see, to not foreclose opportunities and possibilities - and to not get too carried away with unironic redemption or the thirst for blood and vengeance and retribution either. see Girard for more details: are you really looking for justice, or is it really just revenge? this is in Lacan as well, who gets it from Kojeve and Hegel: it's *recognition* that we want, period. we only want to be heard, and seen, and understood.

this is what is such a catastrophe about falling in love too much with irony and so on, however much this is what it means to be a French continental philosopher of the 20C (or a German of the 19C): we wind up falling in love with our own simulations, or adapting like frogs in hot water to the very water that is killing us. that same boiling water comes for us all in the end. just to be a part of the becoming of things, that's enough, more than enough. to cause things, rig the game, try and get ahead of the curve...it's just possible, we wind up outsmarting ourselves. Land is a stupendously good example of this...or, to use a different example
>why didn't they give the ball to Lynch?

i am absolutely fine with being a ghost that haunts an abandoned theme park.

>>12631627
ok fair point i deserve this