/lit/ - Literature

>>11835969
this.

wilber diagnosed a lot of the stuff we are going through now back in the 1980s and 1990s: his word for it was Boomeritis. what's going on today is a similar process. it's narcissism and bewilderment brought on by the crunch of postmodern critique, the sense of a complete loss of orientation v/the future or the past. one of the few things we do seem to agree on is that capitalism is a process that continues independent of cultural context, and even more unsettling, whether we want it to or not. in a sense we are kind of like the EU when the migrant crisis broke out: everybody was doubling down on security to prevent terrorist outbreaks, but what happened was a problem coming from the complete reverse direction - mass immigration. the result was total clusterfuck.

like heidegger, and land, wilber is another one of those guys who often receives the eye-rolls, and sometimes deservingly so, but he was alert to what was going on. i made a thread on one of his early books not too long ago and there are places where he intersects really well w/girard and others:

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as for pic rel, i know. spiral dynamics, cringe. it's like New Age Peterson. but i'm posting it anyways. you may now open fire on this fine slice of cultish Neo-Vedantin California Buddhism. i like russell's Global Brain also. maybe i should make another list later on for flaky cosmo-mysticism, just to ensure that whatever credibility i might have earned is thoroughly bulldozed.

but the sense of re-establishing some kind of continuity and coherence with the future and the past, our attitudes v/technology, global culture, much else is all a part of that passing of the torch. and it's not reducible to those things, either. the period from the 60s-2000s lived it up like there was no tomorrow, and in 1963 at least it looked like that was nearly proven true.

but today we know that there *is* going to be one, and the more we surrender ourselves to the complete plasticization of history and hysterical meme-politics the greater the amount of work there's going to be assembling something that can weather the storm. it's definitely a transitional age, moving away from Anglosphere dominance of the world to at least a multipolar world, and perhaps a technologically multiscalar world as well. the House of Being now has visiting guests from Planet Technology.

passing the torch is necessary. and not sticking the next guy with the hot end either.