/lit/ - Literature

>>12011297
i'm optimistic about the pessimism and pessimistic about the optimism. nobody who reads Uncle Nick comes away feeling *optimistic,* land is a fucking nightmare. the optimism only comes later on in the razor-thin streak of sunlight that suggests it's not all in my head.

if Land did anything it was to suggest that capitalism be like

and so i'm with you - mostly. humans do have desires, tho. and those desires are systematized and weaponized by a consumer society. we are seduced, cajoled, threatened into everything. because there isn't anything fucking else to do except consume and repeat, and live the life of a cynical hedonism. that cynical hedonism has now morphed (unsurprisingly) into an unbelievable streak of moral puritanism which is guaranteed to only keep the wheels turning (see >>12009774. the market decided that Kaep's brand of activism clocked in at around 6 billion dollars, give or take).

>Tech is a Will to Death, Capital an expression of self-loathing, commodity as commode e.g. corprophilia.
all of this is fine.

>You XLRrationists are much too optimistic to me
not this tho. not for me, anyways. my optimism goes through a couple of Jigsaw Devices first on the way to being the kind of optimism i used to have.