/lit/ - Literature

a brief aside here, lest i give the impression to anyone following the thread that i am somehow rooting for landian capital with a big foam finger and praying for the destruction of all monasteries: this is not the case, gents. land has, i suspect, a much dimmer view of the human condition. for him the point is capitalism and time, time and capitalism. personally monastic life seems pretty attractive to me, and in general i get the impression that wherever monasteries have popped up throughout civilization they have been a net bonus to the community, to say nothing of the psychological welfare of those who join them. and, oh yeah, there was that minor act of charitably keeping the intellectual heritage of antiquity under guard while western civilization was mainly handed over to the man on horseback.

i'm not against monasteries, and i'm not against religion either. i feel like this warrants mentioning. nor am i trying to oversimpify the mystery for my own selfish benefit. this is not my thing. true, i don't really know what my thing is, but i'm pretty sure it's not that. or if it is that it would come as a surprise to me. my more general project is an understanding of the hysteria of modern culture inasmuch as it is driven by economics and technology, because what manifests as culture or critique of ideology doesn't scratch where it itches as far as i'm concerned. i think civilization western and planetary is undergoing a pretty spectacular phase-shift overall in terms of our relationship to technology, among other things, and i've had to dig fairly deep and search fairly far abroad for answers that align with the mysterious shapes described by the butterflies in my stomach. and the story as such described by land, girard, and others paints a dim view of a great many things, but i've said before that i'm much less interested in critique of ideology than something more like *virtue.* and virtue has sort of gone missing in civilization today because we all seem mysteriously pressed for time. but rather than get angry or build one scapegoat or another - though i have certainly done no small amount of that, in my own way - i feel it's more interesting, perhaps, and more useful to try and look at the story from a different perspective: that is to say, the Cosmotech perspective, which i basically sing over and over like a demented wasteland bard, and borrowing from whatever books and thinkers i find as necessary.

i thought this warranted mentioning, just in case. i'm not trying to Slay God or wrap up the mystery in service to landian acceleration - really, i'm not. quite the opposite, in fact. i think the mystery is infinitely more beautiful than anything like marxist critique of ideology (or crusade).

for what it's worth. continuing onwards:

>>11825677
>listen: there's a hell of a good universe next door; let's go

>>11823861