/lit/ - Literature

>>12452166
>Wouldn't that be technique?
sure, i pretty much use those terms interchangeably. and hats off to another writer who understood all of this as well as anyone.

>Capital is an evolution of technique into a more efficent and omnipresent form, which will evolve further into omnipotent and omniscient A.I.
*maybe.* if the world becomes idiocracy, maybe not. we are unquestionably headed for technological wonderland, that's true. i'm just still kind of adjusting to a world which raises the possibility that Land may not necessarily have the final laugh about everything, although i'm struggling to articulate why that would be so. it's sort of like the same feeling i had back when when i was trying to figure out what was wrong with deconstruction, and it took a combination of Land and Girard to feel like i had something like an answer for it.

an omnipotent and omniscient AI slaved to the destiny of life on earth may not actually be as omnipotent and omniscient as perhaps we had once hoped. that's part of it. the Nazis had an empire, but it melted, and so did that of the Soviets. even today, incredibly, the United States seems to be surrendering its own hyperpower and hegemony over the earth for reasons that are almost too stupid to be believed - and which, i should add, are both appropriate and terrible.

>We haven't even seen the final boss' ultimate form yet.
true. i'm just wondering today if it actually is going to be what we think it is. it's been a long time since we have had a world in which there are three equally useless and inept powers running it. isn't this a possibility? a world in which neither the US, the Russians, or the Chinese are actually *capable* of dominating the world, even while it seems to be as up for grabs as ever. because the whole thing is just built on foundations that sink deeper and deeper into the ground, and because total confusion turns out to be a surprisingly powerful force.

like the Cold War, except with a twist - both combatants are basically too terminally ill, and senile, to actually fight with each other. they have the will, but completely lack the ability. or the will without the ability. what happens when technique becomes inescapably wed to advertisements that work precisely because they appeal to people's own sloth, degeneracy, and laziness? we all become too fucking fat and stupid to even effectively oppress each other.

i'm going to get my Taoist utopia yet.