/lit/ - Literature

>>21621640
>>>21621233 (You)
Well I thought the surrogate activities bit was the only 'real' value in that book, albeit a correct insight of humans in general had been redirected onto a political faction, as if it only applied to them. That was the error he made there anyway.

still, i give credit where it's due

>>21621398
>You’re right. But it’s far more important in understanding leftism because this is the dominant culture at the moment.
Ah..! but: how you can stop a thing or understand a thing as to its causes so that you 'can' stop it, if you feign ignorance to those causes in the first place?

i.e. a follower of ABC, wit politics as his/her surrogate, will think and act the same way as the follower of CBA, with politics as his/her surrogate: when seeking power they do the same tings, when in power they do the same things, when falling fom power they do the same things lol

It's not "politics" )or whatever) then, at all, but rather the action of Surrogacy itself which pollutes anything it comes into contacts with. Remedying Surrogacy, then, is the only viable path to actually stop such persons from doing the bad things that they do in and because of that "surrogate" condition,
-- see Hannah Arendts write up of Adolf Eichmann also

>>21621480
>, but art, science, and athletics are absolutely NOT under of the surrogate category.
>You can say I'm being pedantic
I'd agree with that, not that you're being pedantic I mean, but rather the first thing that you said lol

There is a way to go about a thing; to focus on the task itself, and then there is a poor way to go about the thing; to use the task to fill some void or whatever. You could compare the angry manlet who goes to boxing vs. a professional boxer, for instance, maybe there's some overlap in their initial approaches to the task, but the professional boxer is no longer (if he was personally) venting his personal problems in the ring or seeking status of self-affirmation to others, at the expense of his performance.

It's easier to make the case about social activities and the poseur types, the office politics, things like that.