/lit/ - Literature

>>11105078
i can understand that. this is just coming from a guy who has kind of doubled down on the masters of suspicion for a long time and who likes to find a kind of thinking that pulls away from black holes. it's a relative world, and a relative world has its dangers. pulling ourselves back from the brink and the margins requires an attitude about phenomenology and perception that overcomes the continental/analytic split. or any number of other splits. cultivating a balanced perspective that doesn't lapse into some kind of positivism or invokes some high card is very attractive to me.

ofc all of this can seem completely obvious. and in a sense it is, i have no problem with that. but i kind of like that this guy has digested some fairly complex ideas - not only peterson, for example, but also the culture in which he is appearing - cryptocurrencies, the hazards of moral relativism, and other things. sometimes the interesting stuff isn't flashy but just seems banal. so, tastes vary.

it's often a mindless world. contemporary philosophy struggles with how to parse this kind of stuff in social and cultural terms.

>>11105129
>If we are to retain our sanity, we need to go Beyond Identity and Difference.

preach it.

>>10978027
i wonder sometimes how crazy it would be to think about a *sacrificial turn in philosophy* to parallel the linguistic turn of the 20c. because there is a whole murderer's row of thinkers ready to go on the subject: girard, bataille, mauss, baudrillard, land (yes, he belongs in there), eliade, jung, freud, and others. a whole bunch of post-marxist theorists you could use to consider these ideas of exchange and sacrifice, the necessary *destruction* of wealth, abundance, excess, and all the rest. who else am i forgetting?

the one thing you would probably not expect from this movement would be *sweeping revolutionary change,* however. at least i wouldn't think so. partly because you would have to really, really love thinking about death, poverty, and disappointment.

i don't know if i would really want a mash-up of acephale and the frankfurt school to become an ideology of itself. in general i think political movements are largely philosophical ideas compressed and become evangelical, repurposed and ready-to-order for people who don't like to ruin their whole lives dwelling in dark caves.

but it's something worth thinking about, i guess.