/lit/ - Literature

enjoy the heideggerpill

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i mean guenon is really a kind of a genius. crisis is his best work, to my mind, although they are all worth reading if you're into the subject matter. coomaraswamy also ofc. schuon i find kind of meh, but it depends on how much you are into the subject matter.

i find acceleration much more interesting (obviously). and got to girard after much continental reading. and then he connects with thiel, who connects to land/reza/&c, and here we are...

but of course there are lots of people to read on the subject. mircea eliade obviously (and i haven't read enough on him). alain danielou. even oswald spengler, in his way, since his categories of faustian/magian/apollinian &c fall into this World-Historical category of literature...

...and mos def heidegger, if you want to see what an existential catholic can do. being and time is for many That Book for a reason. heidegger - Being - will fucking sell you on fundamental ontology. he is justifiably one of the all-time masters.

and i think for me that is the place i will probably - though uncomfortably - dwell in, maybe. if only because my life, as ridiculous and pathetic as it is, has become what it is by so much pointless hermeticizing on these subjects...and because i am in this double-bind of feeling that humans are irrational sentimentalists to the core, and yet, it is virtually impossible to surrender this aspect of ourselves, even for the most sane and sensible reasons. maybe this is why i have such an easier time digesting land than negarestani: even land, however fucked-out he is, still has - is it weird to say this? - a kind of romantic dimension to him. NRX-inspired futuro-classical liberalism still has, i think, at its core, an unwillingness to surrender the question of what it means to be free, to think, and so on...

...with negarestani, on the other side of the fence, a computational-functional ontology doesn't need to answer, or even address, these questions: the point of thinking is thinking. shit, it may even serve The Good...and the engineer's sensibility is certainly not likely to provoke mimesis...

...with reza the question becomes both more and less damning, perhaps: we suffer because *we are stupid.* but that stupidity doesn't entail forgiveness, or suffering, or tragedy...which are old sentimental hang-ups, perhaps, and nothing more. the Good can manifest, perhaps, by abdicating the question of happiness, or meaning...or so it seems to me...

...but i apologize for the shitposting. for religious stuff? those guys. peterson ofc, if only to see what modern transcendence-as-intellectual heresy looks like...lots of good text by World Wisdom press also.

...but some days i feel so fucking unsublimated it's ridiculous. having a hard time letting go of some archaic fossil-shit and becoming domesticated and anonymous. even though i know it's the right thing to do. b/c everything else feels like just fucking primitive mouth-sounds and cave painting.