/lit/ - Literature

>>15976955

First of all, thanks for the well-written reply. The passage is from Human, all too Human, and a number of his aphorisms are basically him rambling about the complete loss of responsibility.

There certainly is something pretty about our capacity for "moral feeling" as you put it, which I believe will naturally centre around the almost overpowering and unassailable emotions of sympathy and empathy. However, the fact remains that you cannot stave off the rationalist knife. The development of such a capacity can be categorized as an essential function for survival; given that it gave way to the earliest appearance of a tribe-mentality.

The inception of divinity is interesting to think about, but one has to remember that superstition has been a constant throughout the early ages. Man had to ask questions about his environment to ensure his survival, but the lack of the ability to comprehend phenomena to a sufficient degree birthed the superstition that lent them mystique. I've always considered the divine category, as you put it, to have been an inevitable consequence of this superstition, wherein superstition and unknowing beyond the effect was weaponized in order to promulgate the ideas of force and power. Unknowing itself became the all-encompasing entity and therefore synonymous with God.

The only arguments I could use to deter his genealogic reduction was to declare myself and empiricist, and therefore say that ones character was either wholly free of influence from its environment, or suffered under a partial influence. The latter then, grants some semblance of morality, but to what degree? It could vary between a crumb or the all of the loaf save the crumb, and the fact that signs point to the former is frightening.

When it comes to modern literary circles, there's a somewhat prevalent neo-intellectual aesthetic that features anime girl profile pictures, discord, autogynephillia, Marxism, Lain worship, cyberpunk, transhumanism, Deleuze, Nick Land, Moldbug, Evangelion, and Freud, to provide a general idea.

I don't know what it is about it is about this amalgamation that is so unbelievably appealing to me.

Thoughts?

>>15772938
I'm at my parents' house for celebration so I can't really read at the moment.

I did 4 shots of vodka in succession yesterday and was only drunk for like 10 minutes.
am I just building up a tolerance? this sucks

>>15715528
Infinite Jest desu

>>15704612
porque no los dos?
You can't tell me that everyone here that's read the Greeks did so in isolation of any other works.

>>15671105
is he balding as well?
If so, I know a dude who looks exactly like this and he's insufferable.