/lit/ - Literature

>>12923400
the 20C is in many ways the acting out of theories of psychology developed in the 19C by the great modernist writers and philosophers, and what is so depressing about the 21C is that *that will continue,* as anarcho-terrorism in a kind of long and protracted civil war over concepts and ideas so divorced from either reality or history now as to be completely unrecognizable. the future may not in fact be an infinitely editable and re-cognizable text to be played with, however much Silicon Valley or the CCP would like to think so (and China has a more sober view, or at least is more comfortable being what it is: an absolute media dictatorship. in the West we need our cartels to apologize profusely as they do this to us, and then we're okay with it).

but what if the human mind was *not* such terra incognita? what if we could recognize and learn and borrow and adapt from some of the things that we have learned about ourselves along the way, such that we didn't always have to solve our own existential problems with recourse to solutions that worked a century and a half ago, and now work only too well today because we can infinitely repeat them in the worst possible ways? Hegel works, Nietzsche works, they work *entirely too well.* and that is the dilemma, because there never is or ever will be anything like a Final Showdown or resolution between those forces, any more than there was a Resolution to Protestants and Catholics fighting. the Protestants just eventually splintered into a thousand groups, the Catholics stopped being influential, and eventually the Revolution appeared and channeled all of this into a new dimension and a new order. that too is what gives you the great theopolitical struggles of the 20C as fascism and communism, and on into today, in all of its new multiplicity.

what we need is a new human system that is aware of its own limitations, as well as the power of its own creations. hubris and nemesis never go out of style. it would just be nice if we could recognize this and update our firmware a little to produce something reflective of this.