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there's a book called Teachings of Yoga on libgen, this is from that. i've found it to be full of insightful stuff, figured i'd share a screenshot with you. i really like this idea of the thief stealing consciousness, maybe it's because i've had this hang-up about thieves and the law and so on for a while.

anyways, you're right. and it really is the thing: there's no chill in militant activism, no meditative practice. protest - if not war - *becomes* the practice, but this is obviously a disaster. philosophy helps one (read: me) to get worked up over all kinds of things, but it ultimately really isn't a substitute for just living right. i know i needed some kind of beatstick to wield to explain why i was so irritated by postmodernity, and i found it in Land (and Girard). so i guess in some sense it's Mission Accomplshed (even if the nature of the Mission itself, or why i would so obsessively brood on this for years is a mildly embarrassing unanswered and unanswerable question). but you are correct, anon. and tomorrow there will perhaps be more Spicy Takes, or not, and you will be correct then too.

the best thing about the meatbag is not his capacity for deconstruction and critique, but integration, i think, the capacity to lose oneself in the objects one is looking at. we are wired for it, for better or for worse. but this is also the line that separates Nietzsche from Schopenhauer, in a way. and maybe it had something to do with Schopenhauer opting for India and Nietzsche rolling with the Homeric Greeks. to each his own, i guess. tragedy probably is the endgame, and it's kryptonite for irony. but there is no kryptonite for tragedy, really. and perhaps this is why it is best to count breaths once in a while.

i'm going to bed. catch ya's later.