/lit/ - Literature

I read this http://www.vub.ac.be/CLWF/skrbina.pdf today and was pleasantly surprised by the connection that can be made to these threads, despite being Skrbina/Kaczynski, namedropping Whitehead and the Tao Te Ching, etc.

>"The social dynamism that Whitehead spoke of is indeed present today. And yet it is, paradoxically, a stagnant, even malignant type of dynamism. Accelerating information flows, accelerating production and consumption, accelerating social stress, accelerating population growth, accelerating depletion of planetary resources—these are the dominant features of 21st century civilization. We are locked into a high-speed pattern of motion without progress—progress, that is, in the truly human sense. Technology and the technological system advance, no doubt, but strictly at the expense of nature and humanity. Perhaps most importantly, ‘motion without progress’ has profoundly adverse psychological effects; rare is the person who does not feel this, somewhere in the depths of his psyche.

Obviously, as has been mentioned in previous threads, they differ as to whether or not we should embrace/accept the acceleration into NeoChina or whatever, but the analyses of tech/systems are remarkably similar.

>>5195454

>direction, status, future
>Never go max pleb bro. It's unseemly.

Associating that with plebness is what a pleb would tell himself to cope with never being invited to move within the inner circles of power in this world.

Stop projecting your frustrations you BTFO pleb.

>>3773515

I don't know, but I like that picture so I'm gonna bump your thread with another, similar picture

I'm writing about knowledge personified as a troubled lover. It's essentially spiting academia, which only loves (values) some of knowledge. I suck at writing. hey, what are some parts of the human condition you want to explore in your writing? Are you interested in this sort of thing?

>>1926065
Thanks! It really looks like he's the one doing these strange and funny drawings. I'll see what more I can found about him...

This question still stands: if you remember the image in the original post being used as a book cover/illustration or related to a science fiction writing, please tell. Thanks!

Also continue using the thread as Philip K. Dick general.