/lit/ - Literature

>>12489951
>you need to stop listening to outis dude, his politics are creepy
Land? i know.

>>12490700
why are you taking me seriously? you should not take me seriously. my posts are the equivalent of a failed state. or the chaos of a religious war nearing its endgame, less catastrophe than simply exhaustion. Enlightenment is on the other side, perhaps. it's not to be found here. i know it and you know it.

here again is yet another analogy: what would happen if Clark Kent just became too lazy to maintain an alter ego? or if Gotham City decided that the potential threats to itself warranted that Batman and the Joker both had to go, and sublimated them into itself? what kind of chaos would that produce? something both more than and less than postmodernity. a world without conceptual binaries is always attractive, but may not be possible. it would more likely be a bloated, confused, chaotic, superstitious mess. and yet there would still be nostalgic types who dreamed of the Old Days. people who dreamed of fixing things, and tidying them up, and setting things right. but there is no setting them right.

the real disaster is not a historical event, but the erasure of categories. this is why the Death of Marx is going to make life hard for some, who find themselves in an ironic position: they were religious believers all along, but they didn't want to admit it, so they put their hopes in Revolution, in various modes of socialism. when the Revolution fails this is traumatic, because it is the substitute for the actual religion they rejected to have the Revolution. as long as people have gnostic politics, they don't actually have to torture themselves with theology.

the death of God is easy (if you don't think about it); the death of atheism is harder, particularly if what you have been calling atheism was only religion by another name. i can see no reason why the fallout of this would not look exactly like the world we see today: desperation presenting itself as anger, as normativity, as consumption. to paraphrase Nietzsche, we have not gotten rid of God because we have not gotten rid of *politics.*