/lit/ - Literature

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and i am very glad indeed that this thread (for which, by the way, i can take no credit) has attracted Aminom, who is indeed That Guy for Space Taoism (now Pancreativism - which is equally lovely).

>God in the non-totalizing sense is the result of the desire to find something that resembles love, that can explain this essence of human experience that is universal to it.
find a flaw. this is very much my own sense. everything is an intermediary, but - again, what you've said here shows up exactly my own sense as well. as soon as we turn away from this and towards critique, we lose it all in the desire to possess that which possesses the possessor. or, updating Heidegger/Tolkien's understanding of *artisanal-industrial* production for an era of *simulation-programming* production, to *create that which creates the creator,* all we ever do is just move the Cosmic elevator another level *downwards* in a doomed belief that, if it can move *down,* it must also be able to move *up* in the same way...but the mechanosphere doesn't necessarily work in the same way an elevator does. you can't always move up in the same way, and via the same process, that you can move down...

everything is an intermediary, but this is precisely why a *radical fidelity to signs and symbols has to be preached.* even fucking Tom Cruise, of all people, alluded to this in one of the Mission: Impossible films. i think it was Rogue Nation. whether it is returning the One Ring to the primordial fires in which it was created, or telling the Sphinx what it is actually looking for, or playing the cynical terrorist's game with more fidelity to its underlying structure than the terrorist themselves will play...in every sense, a Pancreativism is what it is because it suggests a closer harmony to the *actual* metaphysics of creation than *critique* will ever allow. a *genuine* creation doesn't have a point, and is circumscribed by nothing, even telos. such is Nature (and the Tao, and the essential message of the Gita, or the Heart Sutra, or Meister Eckhart, or the Conference of the Birds).

the other sense i have these days is that the real Shepherds of Being are not the philosophers, they are the Samwise Gamgees and Sun Wukongs of the world. none of us are Frodo, or Xuanzang. even if we were we wouldn't know it. but maybe we can be Good Samaritans yet. you know who also had a sense of this? Richard Garriott, in Ultima 5 (and 7). the Shadowlords were manifestations of an Ethics that became draconian when they were *crystallized* out of the virtues. in The Black Gate, the Fellowship is not only a harbinger of the Guardian, it also depends upon constructing those mysterious blackrock portals that *drove the wizards mad...* i think there is something profoundly true about these stories, in a gnostic sense.

(cont'd)