/lit/ - Literature

>>12921612
i've said this before, but a Zombie Foucault resurrected from the dead and ordered to be a Right Foucault would be a nightmare for progressives. trying to win social media battles without a copy of Foucault in one's hand is a terrible idea. this is not to say that trying to talk politics and so on with people you disagree with online is an even worse idea, but you get my point. the only way out is through. not that, in a certain sense, the Overton window hasn't really closed on this, as i think it has. and even if it hasn't, i really don't care as much as i used to because the whole thing is such an atomic cluster-fuck. it's enough to just say that if people really did want to try and school the other side at their own game the way to do it isn't to fight against MF but use him against those who use him against you.

but i agree, the much more interesting question is about this paradigm shift you have described, and in which we do indeed have a standoff of deconstruction. or, basically, ironic rhetorical suicide bombing. 'ha ha, think you've deconstructed me, have you? i've already deconstructed myself! joke's on you, loser!' and so on. it's grim, and it's fucking depressing. and it works, but only because of this ridiculous spasm of ultra-super-ironic modernity we are in. whatever we wind up calling it. again, i think Thirty Years War or Black Death plague symbolism is about right. everyone possessed by the same rage-inducing disease, contagious in all directions.

>But you know how that all ended of course? The Warring States Period where eventually one side one and burned everyone else's books.
this is true. and in the 1920s after the collapse of the Empire much the same, with Mao on top. even Napoleon could not have gotten where he was without the Jacobins, or Hitler in WW1, or Stalin, and all of this. tyranny is absolutely my prediction also, it's just that the One Guy Left is almost always the most cynical opportunist and rarely what people want in the long run. but they do it to themselves.

>>12921694
you don't have to be on the Right to believe in Clown World tho. the NPC meme extended to rage zombies on both sides, and Honk Honk is just a sane observation of where things are at. Callot is slightly more elegant but the point is the same.