/lit/ - Literature

>>12446959
>This is why I like LOGH. Neither side can be considered ethically better than the other. Even letting Westerland get nuked can be justified. Aliens are also noticeably absent, just humans. In the grim darkness of the future, there is only us.
excellent post, btw. this is exactly the kind of source material i am glad to learn about in these threads.

>>12447011
>Political ideology in western society is a church pretending not to believe in any gods. It may have taken up the role, but it has fatal flaws.
this is exactly my sense also. the US culture was is a contest between left and right Protestantism, as much as the Eastern Front was a clash between left and right socialism. it is exactly as Girard said - the death struggles between twins are the worst ones of all. internecine, schismatic conflicts between two groups far more alike than different are the worst ones of all.

>>12447035
meditate, obviously. and read. but it's hard, when you always want to crack open Fanged Noumena and get lost in labyrinths of paranoia and intrigue. capital and machines never really get old, they are inexhaustibly fun to think about. and moreso as the world continues to grow ever-stupider. but that i guess is for me why Christianity makes sense, or other wisdom traditions. if you can't tune things out, then you have to become aware of the fact that ugliness is just as much in the eye of the beholder as beauty is. it's hard not to become angry. but it feels like arrogance to presume that anger is somehow a cure for anger, that you can fight fire with fire. it's hard to let go.

>>12447040
keke. that's the Meaning of Music iirc, like a Jungian mandala that reading Nietzsche has fucked with and rendered modern and disjointed. all i'm saying is that if you put Land's old cardiectomy avatar in there it would be...memorable. as Cthulhu Pantocrator would be. meh, maybe it's best not to think about it.