/lit/ - Literature

>>12374902
as for Cosmotech, well...it began with a kind of usual desire just to talk about /acc stuff, and then ballooned into being something quite wonderful and mysterious. but i also thought it would be a good idea to take a break, so i went and visited my family for a bit and while i was there got sort of dissolved into Eastern stuff for a while, sort of to rinse out the paranoia that comes from thinking about Land stuff. and in a way, those threads were i guess just a sort of intense and concentrated version of the Land threads that are pretty much always interesting on /lit/. calling it Cosmotech is just kind of a fun meme to share, and i guess also because it followed from YH and had Aminom's Space Taoist stuff and my own stylings too, i guess. but anyways. i kind of needed a refresher. /acc is like strip-mining your soul a little bit (or fishing with dynamite), you kind of need to go off into the woods and meditate for a while afterwards so that things can grow back...you know what i mean?

>Christianity
this is how i feel as well, very much. even this: maybe deep down people are *terrified* of Christianity. and i actually think this is a good thing. it is in many ways the ultimate Downer religion, after all. a crucified man and the end of a great many political fantasies. but isn't this a goo. d thing? isn't this an incredibly interesting thing? i think it is. Christianity is a real stumbling block for modern political utopianism. it's why i like Girard, obviously: remove scapegoating and you remove a lot of the romance of war and statecraft. why *anybody* would *want* to be a Christian should be a thing wholly beyond the postmodern mind, for many, because while in one sense it's the Good News, it's also really the Bad News. and, of course, i think there is something profound to love there for precisely that reason. Christianity should fuck with your head, but - well, speaking personally, sometimes you *really want to have your head fucked with.*

>when the idea of suffering at all is so odious to everybody (think safe-spaces and hugboxes and tiny little niche discords where no one has to ever see something they don't want to), a good old dose of noble suffering, suffering for something good, learning that "I suck" should be good for many people.
so this, this exactly. if you want to enslave someone, set up them for a happiness trap they can never achieve (or worse, one which is guaranteed to disappoint the Big Other...and for maximum psychological devastation, make that Big Other an HR manager at Google, or wherever else). we are all fucking crushed by this happiness today. it's suffering we really want, sometimes...and not always just puerile sadomasochistic fantasies either. there is also plenty of the 'pessimism of strength' in a crucified god also, i think; sometimes Nietzsche is more working out his own demons, sometimes. anyways. you get the idea.

plus you can't beat the art.

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