/lit/ - Literature

>>12502198
i wonder sometimes how much calling yourself a nomad war machine isn't really like being a colossal fucking asshole by another name. it is not impossible that being a nomad war machine can also just equal being a fucking prick.

the thing about a lot of continental philosophy is that it is in a way kind of responsible for living in the world of the Matrix we are now in, in a sense. are we really being Super Ironically Deconstructive, or are we just being fucking bulldozers all the time? it's kind of hard to tell. and one doesn't get the impression that bulldozers play nice with each other, they might just as well bristle and deploy more weapons and keep on trucking. why not? if everyone around you looks like a bulldozer, and there is no real alternative to being one, since if you aren't one you are going to get ploughed over by one...

i know that to become a bulldozer isn't really the point of being a BwO, but it's not like there's an off-switch either. but this is where things get interesting, yes? one of the things about Deleuzian thought is that it is kryptonite for Hegel; generalized anarchy > statist normativity. that's fine. but you also have to wonder if there isn't a tipping point, in which anarchy becomes the norm.

why wouldn't that be a descriptor of our world? everybody's ironic, nobody wants to defend the Norm - even if you tried, it would be absurd. and yet how fucking shitty would it be to live in that world? it would be very shitty. especially if the large bulldozers get together and basically say, okay, so it's bulldozer paradise now. let us teach you little bulldozers how this game works. and we will sell you everything you need - because, of course, you want to Buck The System, amirite? of course you do, little guy, of course you do...so did we, once, in the good old days...

there really hasn't been an answer to Deleuze. it certainly doesn't come from Land. how do bulldozers stop bulldozing? if you're living in a failed world, what would even be the point? but you're only living in a failed world because omni-bulldozing makes it that way...

so maybe you cue up a *private* version of the Matrix, within, to take your mind off of things, which is pretty much what everyone else is doing too...and everyone isn't quite telepathic in this way, but they're more or less on the same page...