/lit/ - Literature

>>12364804
it's the fucking best and also it rules. Space Taoism is the greatest thing ever and the definition of my own private utopia.

here's the thing. basically i think two things have to happen, intellectually speaking: philosophy Kant-style and philosophy Perennial-style. one the one hand we have to grasp that there is a part of our brains which is rational, programmable, programming, and capable of all the exciting things that can happen in the world of AI. on the other, there is a part of us that fucking wigs out when we think about capitalism, and tends to get us joining mobs and witch-hunts for very silly reasons. in this Uncle Nick is unequivocally the most interesting man in the world for this reason: because Landian /acc-stuff is a devastating critique of a strain of academic Marxism that has begun to give people fungal brain rot.

socialism is cool; it can also become an absolute black hole. you don't really want Unironic Communism or Unironic Fascism. not really. what you want is to navigate between these possibilities and into that interesting country in which you feel like a human being, and maybe so does those around you as well. personally i think Space Taoism is precisely what will help you get here, and maybe even what a funky world on the other side of these terrible Scylla/Charybdis episodes.

scapegoating is the deal. remove scapegoating from 20C politics and you lose 20C politics. modern scapegoating looks like puritanical witch-hunting, except we don't see it as the witch-hunting that it is because we think Well It's Different If It's Fighting Fascism (or Neoliberalism, or X-ism, or whatever the fuck). but it's all bullshit. mass politics is all fucking bullshit. it is *absolute bullshit.* the Everyman does not know what he is doing. the paranoid neuroblastoma schizoposter (me) *also* does not know what he is doing, true: but i am at least prepared to admit this three out of seven days, and also to live on cup noodles and pirated wi-fi as an enduring shame to my family and a source of mild disappointment to my friends. you probably didn't need to know this as well

also i
>what the fuck are you saying man
just happy to be here inner self. that's all really

by the way Negarestani's book kicks ass.