/lit/ - Literature

>>8862629

I'm >>8862216 &c. Glad you enjoyed the thread. I certainly did. But it was those another anons who really made it valuable.

I mean, I don't even agree with myself 100% of the time. It's why I come to /lit/, to sort of find out what I think. In both those threads I got pretty lucky and there were some very thoughtful anons asking good questions: a Hegel guy in the first one and several sharp cookies in the second one.

I *am* convinced that the way beyond postmodern tail-chasing lies through some kind of enlightened nondualism. Girard offers one way, and Confucius/Laozi offer another. East and West meet in other ways too: there's also a lot of correspondence between Nietzsche/Sloterdijk and Musashi/Ono. Ono's not a philosopher (or is he?) but he might be a *sage* and the product of a highly philosophical life: it's just not one we in the West would call philosophical, because we (read: me) are messed-up decadent Greece-channeling pomo aesthete fucktards who view everything through the perspective of capital and we (that is, me) disdain *practice.* So RG is my boy but the Asians keep saying stuff also that I really really love, and somewhere in there I think there are some interesting connections to be made.

Basically I see the whole world and all the humans in it like gumballs in a gumball machine. Everyone is a little mimetic gumball, and they're all rattling around with the other gumballs. Most are horrified to admit that they are gumballs. And everyone's all crammed in together in the one big jar. From that jar there is no escape, no revolution, no nothing. But maybe there is awareness of the condition. And that to me would be nondual.

Anyways, talk about Girard, anon, I'd be delighted to hear it. And if you've read to the bottom of those threads you know what I think now anyways.