/lit/ - Literature

>>13314521
Call them Master. Not because they're powerful, or anything, but because of pic related.

There has, and always have been, just ONE correct choice.

>>12419440
>something I've been thinking of too, the dichotomy between master and slave is still a kind of slavery, as long as the master keeps reifying his masterhood, of course
100% this. it would be more accurate today to characterize *slave-slave* relations, two slaves arguing about which is the more enslaved. the genuine hysteria within postmodernity manifests as the incredible conclusion that *to know is to oppress.* this is Foucault given a frontal lobotomy, or everything you love about Deleuze transformed into completely tragic nightmare fuel. all that pic related knows is that he is the voice of a great multitude. the Master is imho an absolutely perfect symbol of the destiny of leftist politics: the Grand Inquisitor for the DNC.
>destroy me?
>destroy!
>me?
add in the fact that the developers even had a GI moment at the end, where you are rejected also by the very Vault you set out to save. you too are handed back to the road, to go wandering again. that was a brilliant game.

slavery too can become reified. Foucault understood this; he writes, somewhere, about the dangers of the marginalized marginalizing themselves. and yet - as always - the world has delivered plot twists that nobody could have predicted. in an age of *absolute corporate dominance,* the extraordinary fact that the corporations in turn wind up being tyrannized by their consumer base is a sad irony. people jettison philosophy and revolution for consumption, then - on some deep level - demand that the consumption give back precisely that wish for moral gratification that they surrendered for leisure and convenience. when corporations listen, you get things like the Gillette ad (the most surprising characteristic of which is the *total absence of any indication of the razor's actual quality.* the problem isn't your razor, it's your face (and your mind).

Gillette: The Best A Man Can Be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koPmuEyP3a0

what a world we live in.

>there needs to be a kind of "post-reflexive" dominance, the dominance that is, of course, not domination, and the best examples of that for me have always been the masters Zhuangzi talks about, or you hear about in Zen literature
can't find a flaw in Zen. or in Zhuangzi's dextrous butcher. when you have a Cook Ting on hand it's easy to run a kitchen. it is in fact *so* easy that you might be inclined to think of the entire state itself as being just one big happy restaurant...and you might not even be wrong about that.

>>8639253
The Master aka Richard Grey aka Richard Moreau (/lit/ reference!), from Fallout 1