/lit/ - Literature

>>11929310
This is the closest thing I know of.

>>10597149
Beautifully put anon. You should look into kintsukuroi pottery, pic related.

>>8831817

Gadamer has a comment about this also: that the great existential burden is the burden of going first.

Look at the state of modern nihilism today, the antinatalist movement: life itself is not only suffering, it is also the causation of suffering. In a sense this is what we find doubly offensive about most violence: not only the physical consequences (bodily damage) but the hypocrisy of the moral injection behind it - Because Reasons, and then finally if you want the truly libidinal horror which underwrites it: that is, it's all blocked and frustrated sexual desire. Put the Girardian cherry on top that in the end it leads both to and from crowned anarchy, and the only way past it is through collective scapegoating, and we have good reasons to fear and abhor violence. The act of sui generis rude violence is that act of going first, and it flaunts all of this existential stuff by doing so.

But I suppose what the comment I was responding to was raising was this notion of taking a kind of impersonal view of what constitutes "violence" - that is, it would be a phenomenon better understood as a kind of a *technical* process rather than a *phenomenological* one. Perhaps even as a process which requires as much "creativity" as the poetic arts we prize so highly because they valorize peace and serenity, in general a kind of *motionlessness.*

We dislike - I dislike - anarchy and chaos. The ubiquity of universal violence, the never-ending rock-scissors-paper game of human desire and seduction, makes me find existence to be a rather odious and tiring game of trying to hold on to the high ground, pass the hot potato, scramble for money, etc. It makes me hate and feel disgusted with being alive at all. But violence always remains sexy to think about, literally or figuratively: combat and violent video games, violent movies, all of it - it's weird that I'm tempted to escape into aestheticized version of that which I hate to encounter in the real world.

So this is why I do what I do, think about these kinds of things, try to figure out how to life in the world without chasing after beauty and being disappointed, or maybe trying to surrender the need for beauty altogether. Some of this is Nietzschean stuff, but I also think that his programme for post-nihilistic being is too exacting and probably impossible. I don't think people can be works of art, but they might be able to be craftsmen, in a way. And that is probably enough.

I think the Chinese and the Japanese get this, in some deep-down way: see pic related. Beauty comes from out of brokenness.

Japanese is ten times the language english ever be.

How does this make you feel?