/lit/ - Literature

>>11804296
>>the relation between the cosmos and the moral
i have to go out for a bit or else i'd be happy to talk about this further. i had a sense that that quote would probably sound exactly like Diversity Smuggling in the worst way, but it really isn't. and it's a hugely important question, imho, because we really *don't* want the complete politicization of science. it's why i like YH.

the relationship between the cosmos and the moral *does* have huge implications, though. it always has. this is 100% violence and the sacred, for one thing. are we living in a world where these things happen, or are we not? even the most radicalized pomo types today can preach much more atheism than they actually feel: that is to say, even if god is dead you can still be persecuted and punished with all rage you would have encountered in the 14C. contemporary outrage culture is 100% cosmic morality, it's just often a very questionable morality and not much cosmic appreciation either beyond neo-marxist bullshittery. so that is one thing.

>have to recognize “ontological diversities"
again, this isn't so crazy (although there is a lot of similarity between heraclitus and laozi). but the Tao is one thing and the Logos is another. even among abrahamic religions we recognize that there is both dissimilarity and similarity. this happens everywhere. the point is not to make the same retarded argument about We Need To Recognize - again, if it was, i wouldn't be posting any of this. we are loaded to the gills with that. but tech in china really does have different philosophical origins than it has in the west, and these matter. it's had a different history, a different trajectory. and today all these world are getting linked in together.

anyways, as i said, i have to jet. i just wanted to reply to this briefly first. again, and emphatically: the point of this is not Diversity Smuggling, it's about exploration of the meaning of tech. what if we are hampered (or spectacularly, if dangerously, un-hampered) in our study by looking only at this phenomena through a particular lens? tech is a planetary phenomenon with world-historical ramifications. it warrants looking at it from all sides, *within reason.* that's the point. the idea isn't to create more politicized, rage-inducing obfuscation. it's to do completely the opposite of this.