/lit/ - Literature

>>12657930
cheers, thx

i'll suggest two more for OP. this one

>>12579895
so far i have been exposed as
>Peter Thiel
>John Maus
>not an individual at all, but a collective persona
>icycalm's younger brother
and also more or less accurately characterized as
>a sub-sub-Kantbot gimmickposter

obviously i can neither confirm nor deny any of these.

>>12580213
YES
yes
thread rekt so hard right now
we got smugged extrabad
>and we will never be about that smug life
you're doing the lord's work anon. never quit. we need you smuganon

>>12580254
read the TTC and Zhuangzi. other good commentators: Creel (>>12580285); Chang Chung-Yuan; Eva Wong; and i'll shill this one too, pic rel. Taoism also pairs well with Confucianism also, check out Tu Weiming afterwards, you'll have a wonderful time. maybe Brook Ziporyn. Roger Ames, there's lots. Chinese philosophy is ultrabased. it's way way cool.

>>12580257
>Neuromussolini
this is a good one. they certainly have the aesthetics for it. link below:

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Bi15CzneDxI/V2R6d9gdpHI/AAAAAAAAKYk/zNUX_bX0GHIzuAnLWaE2HztCAw-l6AisgCLcB/s1600/The%2Bheadquarters%2Bof%2BMussolini%2527s%2BItalian%2BFascist%2BParty%252C%2B1934.jpg

also, i don't know if you guys saw this, but the Italians have changed the parade game completely:

God-Emperor Trump Conquers Italy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWjC_mrucY4&t=226s

>>12580307
okay this is getting out of hand
>in the best of all possible ways
>if by best we mean worst
>and by worst we mean, goddamn i love this place. holy shit

that said - if the meme gods are willing - i want to talk about the concept of *ruin* tomorrow. did you guys know that ruin porn is a thing? it is a thing. Wasteland Pirate Radio, fuck yeah

>>11633344
>To vanish into things is not the metaphysical dream of contemplative transparency before finally finished forms. To vanish is to mix. The sugar vanishes into the water, not gone, merely rendered invisible, while endowing its matrix with new tendency. To mix is to mix well; what does not mix well is not mixed at all. Obstinately immiscible, selfishly self-identical, it resists a tendency to soften up and become more consistently internal to its environment. In language I used earlier, vanishing means becoming (more) internally related. What becomes imperceptible offers no resistance to the mixing that redistributes it. Fluently translated, its form is a phase, its identity experimental. We vanish into things when what they do, their economy, becomes indistinguishable from what we do, our vitality. We vanish by synthesis, symbiosis, and synergistic evolution.

>We mix well, not losing ourselves, despite losing boundaries that seemed to separate us, and make us think we were subjects confronting objects. The only self to lose is one that was an obstacle to apprehending the incipient and virtually invisible, hindering a resonant rapport with the circumstances that ultimately determine our fate. Vanishing, we become more extensive, complex, integral, and integrally effective, but also softer, not more dramatically powerful, and better at avoiding problems than solving them. We vanish when our viability merges with the ziran productivity of things, something that can be intentional, even engineered, a work of art.

>That is the art of wise knowledge. It knows how to soften whatever comes contingently in touch, how to orchestrate multiplicities without abolishing differences, how to turn analysis into synthesis, orthodoxy into unorthodoxy, and method into a way of viable evolution. We vanish into things with resonant forms that connect and endure, that enhance the commonwealth, and that make the artifact of knowledge a lasting work of art.

Pic related is germane if anyone's into Chinese philosophy. He has another good book on martial arts as well.