/lit/ - Literature

>>12921403
diamonds out of coal, you know the deal. sometimes of course the coal is just crushed into fucking pieces too. depends on the coal i guess. don't kill yourself just yet is what i'm saying. there's a possibility that some good stuff might come out of all of this. but it's going to be fucking McDiculous on the way to it.

>>12921439
yeah, i've read some of there stuff. i like Heidegger and he had a lot going on w/the Kyoto School. Zen is dope shit and i would love it if somebody would translate pic rel.

my only issue with the Kyoto School is the one i have with Heidegger too: while i like Zen, and i like Being, the trap is in becoming a fucking hardened warrior Revolting Against The Modern World. i'm a softie about this, and probably disastrously mistaken too, but it's part of the paradox: when everyone is revolting against the modern world, wat do? i've had no end of fun reading Land et al and watching the first couple of years of the Trump presidency, but i am fucking wiped out at this point by rage and irony and memes. i think a softer touch is required. this is no knock on the KS, or Zen, or lots of other stuff, really. just where i'm at now. i want a way of looking at things that isn't predicated on the revolt or the hatred of modernity, or the rest of it. the Hindus have a lot going on that i like these days, as do the Buddhists, as do some of the Greeks. i'm all fucking raged out at this point. i feel like i've been fucking blasted with an artillery shell and now i am lamely limping off of the battlefield now because plainly the war doesn't need my help anymore and moreover it is going to go on for a long time yet to come. but i deserved it, i think. i deserved it for stumbling onto the field like a fucking idiot and wearing a wizard hat of some kind.

>>12921466
that is a brilliant essay, as is much of the CCRU stuff, and Land, and and and. all that stuff is absolutely fucking great. Land is great and horrible through all of his transformations. life post-Uncle Nick is going to take some thinking tho.
>like there is a post-Nick life
>there is inner self, there is