/lit/ - Literature

>>9704640
That's why Vaporwave is a step forwards. Parody of capitalism my ass. It's the rather the embrace of it, the great healing of the rift in meaning. It just happens to be a few years too late I guess. That's acceleration for you, the time lag between culture and capital. We're learning to love it. But it must be sincere and not ironic. But irony can be a means to achieve sincerity. Hypersincerity. Be one with the Way which is also the flow of capital.

Do take a look at A Theory of Ritual. I'd say "so I don't have to" but my samefag levels aren't that advanced yet.

Tiqqun sounds like an example of what *not* to do. There's a psychological term where one self-sabotages just so they can say they were in control of their failure. It's ultimately not healthy. Jewish victimhood is an especially interesting case because unlike Christianity and Marxism it is victimhood in which ideology and identity are one and the same. Hence the eventual evolution of victimhood into identity politics. The tension between ideology and identity was too palpable. The Jews though, unlike rest, were the first urbanites and adopters of capitalism. No history leading to the modern day is complete without their history. Victimhood can be described as wanting to become the Jews, while anti-semitism is not wanting to become the Jews. Both haven't been very successful. Heidegger's subtle position on the Jews is worth looking into. Tao/Capital and Diaspora/Entropy is worth looking into. ???/Negentropy remains a Big Q.

>>9704725
Based.

>>9704634
Kek.

>>9694153
>And no offense but so much of the theory being trotted out in this thread is also so 80s and 90s. Really unfashionable, dated stuff that doesn't really apply now

>your dragon is vaporwave now
>fuck yeah
>dragon fight dragon fight!
>got front row seats

>>9693187
Thanks for the rec.
>Tu's interpretation challenges the conventional wisdom that Confucianism is a purely rational and secular ethical system.
Call me piqued. 20th century "New Confucianism" seems to me like a huge detour in terms of grappling with Confucianism. The predominant strain is "How does Confucianism relate to this-and-this contemporary topic/issue/fad/meme" rather than viewing it on its own terms. But ofc this is the English language scholarship on Confucianism. Who knows if there are any developments going on in China that remain untranslated. I may have to re-learn Chinese.

>>9693234
>that's why you save your father from the belly of the whale first
>it's kinda important you do it in that order
>no really
>You could explain this one, though. I think I understand what you mean.

It's a shameless dig at a JBP meme (yes he is a meme now). The break between the Father and the Son is a huge theme in BM. "Rescuing your father" (literally or metaphorically) is Peterson pointing out a timeless meme that applies when merely following in the Father's footsteps is not enough, because the Father has been led astray.