/lit/ - Literature

>>11366505
>i have to say, that is a pretty fucking fine chunk of text anon.

im happy you got it, its a very subtle thing to try and articulate

>it makes me think of a sort of futuristic panopticon in which the warden is dead and he was the only one who actually knew the codes to open the doors to the outside. so now the prisoners are more or less free, but now permanently stuck in there.

exactly this. perfect picture of hegel's absolute knowing as zizek interprets it: the knowledge of our (dialectical) captivity is itself what is (supposed to be) liberating. sounds like a compromise to me desu. immanent closure relieved by the knowledge of closure. the hope for the escape that is somehow greater for not being actual. it's a hard sell.

all truth is ontological fatigue. it's like AA. you have to admit the problem to solve it. you finally see through the senselessness of everything you were doing to avoid coming to terms with it before.

>that computer that runs us eventually kind of needs to be improved by us so as not to be dependent on us

this is great. simple blank immediacy is just not what is optimal for consciousness. at some point it needs our "input". if it were enough, boredom would be non-existent. notice that western disdain of oriental quietism. consciousness is just too "alive" to stand still. we're strapped in along for the ride regardless of whether or not we've realized it is a ride, and capitalism is a coping with the fact that it can still hurt.