/lit/ - Literature

also there appears to be some pretty wild stuff going on in Slime World. i don't know what this means, but it's pretty darn interesting. i'm guessing that's Trakl Heidegger is talking about.

gender theory is not my bag, but if it were it would be of the Nyx variety. i feel less trigged now than i might have been before by stuff i see on the news and elsewhere since reading that article. it doesn't change my whole worldview or trajectory or anything, but it does make me realize that gender stuff really is a lot more interesting than i perhaps had thought earlier. it undeniably has a role to play, even if i gravitate towards B-movie (and occasionally A-movie) representations of men and why they aren't so bad. i am glad for having read it tho, and much more sympathetic towards people i think i would have been indifferent to before. that's the magic of theory for you, to crush those little icebergs that grow on your heart, i think.
>or melt them, as the case may be
>it's a global heart-warming
>aww
>ffs kys girardfag
>hello inner self
>hello

i think it comes down to humor, in the end. there is a secret correlation between comedy and despair that just cannot be sacrificed. there is something indestructibly hilarious about men being placed in impossible situations, and overcoming adversity by hook or by crook, and in ways that transcend a great many political divides, whether it's Chaplin, Sanjuro or Snake Plissken. it is true that for the sake of this redemptive laughter they must also *suffer,* and they have no absolute claim to the meaning of suffering. everybody suffers, and it is for that reason that everybody deserves compassion, not only because suffering is the royal road to wisdom but because compassion is arguably that wisdom itself.

it's a funny, sad, and painful world like that. and it will become funnier, sadder, and more painful too, perhaps. whatever my ultimate contribution to make to these threads will be, it will likely be a meditation on comedy and wasteland praxis. and because i don't know how long these threads are going to last, and because i don't want the magic in them to end before i finish that train of thought, i will probably have to get around to posting it sooner or later, which goes against my inveterate and virtually heroic laziness.

alas, being lazy only seems to get more difficult the further into 2018 we go. human obsolescence will be for realsies, and it will lead to a lot of frustrated, disaffected, and ultimately ready-for-Politics people.