/lit/ - Literature

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the Cosmotech position (read: that of one odious namefag on a soap-carving forum, and a small gang of Good Samaritans and other wandering time-addled vagabonds) on UniTed is that while we like hermits, mystics, vagabonds, recluses, druids and the like, Terror-Hermits is the wrong way to go. Rene Girard does not like bombs, and neither does Confucius. true, Bernard Stiegler did a five-year bid in the can for armed robbery, and turned himself into one of the leading Heidegger scholars in France while he did so, but this must be considered to be the exception and not the rule. if he had mailed bombs to a bunch of airlines it would mean a permanent loss of Cosmotech Social Credit, and no number of commentaries on Being and Time would have saved him.

Industrial Society and its Future is undoubtedly a text worth reading, Uncle Nick himself is a huge fan. in a similar light, Land also likes Cody Wilson, of Yes In Fact I Can Download a Gun fame. every now and again Land will tweet out a picture of the Jolly Roger, and in some deep sense i cannot help but wonder if that doesn't actually tell you something about his psychology: ultimately, that he was kind of okay with Unironic Piracy. and Cody Wilson's own approach to modern society is provocative, to say the least. i don't know i'm at on guns. i think it's safe to say that for the time being mental health would be the major problem.

but i would say that the line has to be one of a very principled non-violence. self-defense is cool, terrorism is not. it is in fact the inability of late-modern societies to CTRL for terrorism *at all* that makes me want to shitpost things about Girard, Batman, and Yojimbo (see Cosmotech #10 for more on this). if you are Blondie, or Sanjuro, and you are going to clean out a border down that has become a necropolis (or even just a little necro-village), you do things the way you do them. the story is repeated also in Last Man Standing too. but no, bombs and things like this are not on the table. the Unabomber is not the way to go. book yes, Terror-Hermits no.

that said, good book about philosophy and martial arts here if anons are interested. the author also has another very good one about Chinese philosophy in general.