/lit/ - Literature

SYNOPSIS:
Our Hero is certain Baruch Spinoza existed, and has now been set on a path to expose the oldest conspiracy known to Man. He calls this path his Prophecy.

The Hero was born in 2038 and was 18 when the Modern System began. He fit in perfectly but mentally he'd always been an outsider. In the Past World, he loved reading books, and at the end of the Past System he got into philosophy, although most texts had already long been out of print so he was forced to put his love of physical books aside and use his e-reader more. It still made him eccentric, as barely anyone cared for literature let alone philosophy in Modernity and beyond. Fast forward eight years, it was now the year 2064, late Winter, and our Hero was 25 years old, data science was his occupation, and he was good at it. So good, in fact, it was his third job already, and he was earning a lot of money. But there was something missing in his life, and he didn't know what it was. He struggled to name the specific issue as pretty much everything in his life had thus far worked out. He was agnostic and of secular, assimilated Jewish descent. After a year of contemplation he remembered Baruch Spinoza, whom he had read in his youth and whose views impacted him to a sufficient degree. He was now struck by a weird realization: he cannot find the name Baruch Spinoza anywhere, either on the Internet or in real life. This realization is weird because every other philosopher is there, in fact every other person the Hero remembers is there, except for Baruch Spinoza. He is now suffering a powerful crisis because he doesn't know whether he truly read anything by anyone carrying that name, or whether he just inaccurately remembered something, or whether it never happened at all and it was all just a figment of his imagination. This crisis was short-lived, though: he is certain Baruch Spinoza existed.

>Knowing the emptiness of data science and corporate work, he finally identified the issue following his metanoia (illumination). The System behind Modernity was itself the issue. The Hero had suffered another crisis, from which he did not recover so quickly this time. A tumultuous few months later the crucial year of his life had arrived. He had by now identified his goal: construction of a better system on the bones of the old one. He became frantic. He searched for Nietzsche, and he was there. Baruch Spinoza was not. He was again beset by metanoia, leaping from one field to the other, and the Hero was eventually grasped by an all-encompassing anamnesis one fateful spring evening: April 20th, 2066.
>The Lone Initiate is born, or what the Overseer would classify as an IPI: an Irreconcilably Problematic Individual. One who cannot be re-educated, can only be erased. And it is this knowledge that the Lone Initiate uncovered: Baruch Spinoza was one such IPI, and the Lone Initiate should watch his step very carefully from now on, or the thread of the Prophecy will be severed.
need it or keep it?

SYNOPSIS:
Our Hero is certain Baruch Spinoza existed, and has now been set on a path to expose the oldest conspiracy known to Man. He calls this path his Prophecy.

The Hero was born in 2038 and was 18 when the Modern System began. He fit in perfectly but mentally he'd always been an outsider. In the Past World, he loved reading books, and at the end of the Past System he got into philosophy, although most texts had already long been out of print so he was forced to put his love of physical books aside and use his e-reader more. It still made him eccentric, as barely anyone cared for literature let alone philosophy in Modernity and beyond. Fast forward eight years, it was now the year 2064, late Winter, and our Hero was 25 years old, data science was his occupation, and he was good at it. So good, in fact, it was his third job already, and he was earning a lot of money. But there was something missing in his life, and he didn't know what it was. He struggled to name the specific issue as pretty much everything in his life had thus far worked out. He was agnostic and of secular, assimilated Jewish descent. After a year of contemplation he remembered Baruch Spinoza, whom he had read in his youth and whose views impacted him to a sufficient degree. He was now struck by a weird realization: he cannot find the name Baruch Spinoza anywhere, either on the Internet or in real life. This realization is weird because every other philosopher is there, in fact every other person the Hero remembers is there, except for Baruch Spinoza. He is now suffering a powerful crisis because he doesn't know whether he truly read anything by anyone carrying that name, or whether he just inaccurately remembered something, or whether it never happened at all and it was all just a figment of his imagination. This crisis was short-lived, though: he is certain Baruch Spinoza existed.

>Knowing the emptiness of data science and corporate work, he finally identified the issue following his metanoia (illumination). The System behind Modernity was itself the issue. The Hero had suffered another crisis, from which he did not recover so quickly this time. A tumultuous few months later the crucial year of his life had arrived. He had by now identified his goal: construction of a better system on the bones of the old one. He became frantic. He searched for Nietzsche, and he was there. Baruch Spinoza was not. He was again beset by metanoia, leaping from one field to the other, and the Hero was eventually grasped by an all-encompassing anamnesis one fateful spring evening: April 20th, 2066.
>The Lone Initiate is born, or what the Overseer would classify as an IPI: an Irreconcilably Problematic Individual. One who cannot be re-educated, can only be erased. And it is this knowledge that the Lone Initiate uncovered: Baruch Spinoza was one such IPI, and the Lone Initiate should watch his step very carefully from now on, or the thread of the Prophecy will be severed.
need it or keep it?