/lit/ - Literature

>>13077018
i only got into it during a major depressive episode but ever since then i've always known that it has this weird power to always be more on-point than whatever horrible feelings i am having. really one of the greatest books ever written

Laozi even says that, he says, 'people abandon the Way but the Way does not abandon people.' it's really true too. i go off and read all kinds of other stuff and then i come back and it's all there, as if to say, 'so, you're back again, hm?'

this is my favorite edition

>>12446630
i suspect that this quote is fake, by the way. or if so it doesn't look like anything i read in my preferred edition, which is pic rel.

for me, actual governance these days goes no further than individual psychology. it just can't, it's fucking impossible. you know what works? yoga, and kung-fu. those work pretty well. Freud would have looked ridiculous doing yoga, but so much for Freud. eight thousand years of Vedanta later and that stuff still looks pretty good. so does the Tao as fundamental ontology, which it took the West a few centuries to catch up with, and which Nietzsche had to explode like the world's greatest literary firecracker for, and then Heidegger's own gathering up the pieces for permanent mournful display in Teutoburg. you don't even have it take it from him - take it from Ernst Junger, who walked through fire in two world wars and decided that LSD was pretty cool, and that there was an inescapable torture device hidden within all industrial technology. it's how we are. it's what we do.

i like the West, personally. i think it's pretty keen. but it sucks without religion. Western religion is actually pretty fucking great stuff, and it has oceans of depth underneath it too - all of which seems to have been buried, under comparatively recently, by a nearly two-centuries debate about What Marx Meant By This. we still don't know. Land today marks the outer limit of that lack of knowledge, but Bitcoin will not save, any more than Kant did. there is a horizon beyond which to know that all this shit repeats itself is all that can be known.

>>12446638
who cares

>>12446646
i'm the OP, i made this thread so that i could ramble in it. also i can neither confirm nor deny that i actually trapped myself inside a runic circle i drew on the floor, and i am now stuck. i thought hermetic magic was supposed to make my life easier. so embarrassed right now