/lit/ - Literature

>>12456288
put another way, we are Mordor, but we have to keep telling you that we are Gondor. and the way we do this is by irony. we have to keep making jokes about all of it, and be mortally offended if you ever raise the possibility that what we are doing, in fact, is spectacularly evil. we know this, of course - but you will pay a price for hurting our feelings.

because what we absolutely cannot stand is a worldview which stands radically opposed to our own. this is why we especially hate monastics, or wisdom traditions, or anything that suggests not buying in to our bullshit. if it cannot be rendered laughable, we will present it as a threat. what are they *doing* in there? they must be up to something. there has to be some kind of conspiracy, some in-joke, some threat. maybe they hate us. but hating us, well - that's just *crazy.* how could anybody hate this? we have everything. look at all the things that we *do* to keep the world safe. aren't you satisfied with all of this? what do you mean, you want something *more* than this? what are you, some kind of fucking communist?

refusing to play by our rules is Literally Terrorism. our cardinal rule is that there are no rules, after all. that's how it works. and the idea of asking, perversely, if there is not in fact more to life than sex, and drugs, and spectacular violence, and racking up points destabilizing governments, or developing war machines and missiles, or creating a more satisfyingly exploded skull for your nephew's game - my god, this is like fucking Communism.

and besides, what *else* are you going to do? it's a wasteland out there. nothing grows. come on, we say, people suck! everybody sucks. people are shitty. that's why the games are necessary, right? isn't this what you really want? don't we all fucking deserve this? be *honest* with yourself - don't you really feel, deep down, that we deserve this? isn't this the perfect model of justice, for such a horrible species?

we pull out all the stops here. you can't just *walk away* from this. where are you going to go? there's nothing left out there, we deconstructed it all to build this. there *is* nothing left. it's all capitalism! trust us, we perfected it! we know how you are. you won't find anything out there...shit, you would have to start it all over again! and even then, do you really think you won't wind up becoming exactly like this? what makes you think you're any different from the rest of us? you don't know what you're doing. you're just being impossible...