/lit/ - Literature

basically it comes down to the sense that having abandoned Christianity, we have tried - the 20C heavyweights have all made contributions, in their own way - to come up with substitute forms of religion, largely predicated on revolution. if we are not going to be Christians, we have tried to take our cues from Oedipus, or the Overman, or whatever else follows from this - and it doesn't work. as such we wind up with an atheism which becomes ever more religious in its apparently secular zeal, and it leads to infinite mimesis.

a post-atheism is in every sense a better look. postmodernity is always continuing its own wild Jenga-style deconstructions of modernity, but beyond a certain horizon only winds up reproducing everything which is horrible about it, in increasingly ironic ways (no less horrible for all their irony).

something like a new religious attitude is required, but of course, once you've opened up Pandora's Box, you can't as easily put everything back in again. our problem is that we just don't know whether we want more religion or want to go on trying to get on without it. everything you see in politics today points to the nature of this paradox and deadlock. it becomes a grand, and horrible, wheel of mimesis and fuckery.

something new has to come out of this; and, historically, something usually does. i don't know quite what it will look like yet, but imho it's not too soon to begin sussing out what it might look like. such is the hope here.