/lit/ - Literature

>>11375050
in spite of all the enervation, paranoia, and stupidity of the present age...it's arguably a pretty fucking tremendous time to roll hard with philosophy. the mind can (and should!) voyage to some pretty wild places these days.

i think about this sometimes: what are philosophical texts but software programs? i read girard: i am persuaded. i read laozi: i am persuaded. i read deleuze: i am persuaded. over time, these things sort of coalesce into a worldview, a sort of heavily chopped-palimpsest...but it's all shadows and forces on the plane of immanence, all glass bead games.

in some sense, i'll admit, it's because i have a soft and squishy brain. i don't rigorously parse things out with the power of logic like i should (the means by which a good old-fashioned latin trivium kept down the heresy for centuries). but the power of suggestion is powerful, desire is omnipresent, and mimesis is everything. i liked what bruno was saying about resonances...

...and why not? i mean you don't want to lose your gourd entirely. but people's affects are going to take them where they take them. what's better: a sane and reasonably well-adjusted sorcerer, or some poor suffering bastard crumbling to pieces with neurosis and paranoia?

>depends on the sorcery, i guess

the other thing i think about is how axions that you believe in are ultimately hidden from you. it's the blind spot zizek talks about. we can't actually see the core of what it is that essentially makes us do everything else. the mind, like the world, just seems like a complete mystery, but if the legacies of the 20C are indications of anything that seems like a much better way to look at things. generally speaking the taoists don't seem to want to do too much damage, they just want to stare at the butterflies (and occasionally poison themselves with crude homebrew immortality pills).