/lit/ - Literature

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so which philosophers matter to you anon? 100% not baiting. if you're concerned with counter-initiation - should we understand that you're thinking about guenon? the traditionalist school?

>the only thing worse than an internet full of arid nothing is an internet full of seeds no one knows how to cultivate

>an audience is the worst thing that can happen to a thinker

i mean stuff like this is genuinely interesting. even though you've labeled me as a counter-initiation and the symptom of some kind of decline (which is probably true, in some sense), i'm honestly more interested in what you think than i am in having a shit-flinging memefest. obviously i have no way to defend myself w/r/t preening faux modesty. if that is how i seem to you then it is what it is.

or maybe i should try this another way. is how i sound irritating because i'm basically intellectualizing stuff that's supposed to remain un-intellectualized? watering down the sauce? you wrote:

>i don't like how everything curls back into itself and becomes stagnant and pathological

if so, it's not like this isn't something i feel myself, sometimes. it's why i think about irony so much, why i've alluded to the dark knight in the past and the genius of the characterization of the joker. it's why i think baudrillard was such a prophet and why modernity is a phenomenon worth thinking about. and it's even connected to why i'm thinking so much about fallout and the post-apoc these days. it definitely connects to girard, lacan, and much else: the loss of the real and the replacement with illusion, even the ways in which people can still fight to the death over illusions and ideologies. it's why girard is the boy for me: mimetic rivalry works just as well whether or not the stakes are physical or metaphysical. stuff like this.

so i don't want to get too ahead of myself here. but you've raised some interesting stuff and i'd hate for you to feel disappointed or as if none of the things you are thinking had been completely unthought by others in the thread.

of course, i could be completely off-track here as well. but i figured it was worth at least raising the possibility. just to try the unusual thing ('how do i know i'm not repeating the wrong thing again here?') rather than the expected thing ('i'm triggered! fuck you! [insert meme joke here].)

for what it's worth.