/lit/ - Literature

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no guarantee that the Space TTC is not also the IRL TTC. 2500 years and counting and the Old Dragon is still looking pretty crispy fresh (or, rather, old and dusty, as he likes.) Fire!!1! is more Heraclitus' thing than Laozi's, but there is a basic East-West oscillator that i am very much fond of. especially perhaps that unique blend which is called Greek Buddhism. however much Nietzsche might have enjoyed winning swordfights with the Stoics, which he surely would have, i'm not convinced that Stoicism isn't an immensely based Cosmotechnics (which it is, and YH says as much in his book).

but it's all good. anything that rubs out irony and NPCs is fine. even if it's the PCs and not the NPCs that is a problem. i'm basically trying to rehab myself back onto something like an ordinary life, rather than spread more meme ideology throughout the universe, it does not lack for this. just shakin' out some static. for which Heraclitus and Laozi are both required, in equal measure, along with many others, no doubt.

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he does, and they vary in quality, but anybody who can consistently write the same book for like three decades+ has to be on to something. Less Than Nothing really was pretty effing great.

and - oh snap - it appears that his new one is on libgen also. Updated My Journal. i want to finish the George Morgan book before i leap into this one, but i've been hoping somebody would make this available.

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and ty for the scans anon. five bucks + setting up Kindle was the bargain of the century for me, Yuga is the only reason i have a Kindle account at all. i would greatly appreciate another aphorism or two from The Sandstone Papers in the next thread if you'd be so kind. connecting the Traditionalists to the Accelerationists is basically why i get up in the morning. Glass would probably chide me for this and say that this is a fool's errand, and he would be right to do so.

there really is very little in what we talk about here that isn't already talked about in Yuga, i think. we have different references and source material, but the end result is very much the same: as you say, the Reign of Quantity is indeed real.

that is the story and all of the story. maybe it should be restated here, lest we give the wrong impression: the Cosmotech/Acceleration threads are not actually arguing for Moar Speed. it's the opposite, in fact; the idea is (for me, anyways) to *get off* the Wild Ride, but before this can be done it has to be understood. and if there is no real Getting Off (or, as Land would say, Exit) then at least trying to bring this beast under control in some small way (which is also not likely to happen).

but whether it is Guenon, Spengler, Ellul, Baudrillard, Mumford, Glass, or whoever else...it's all the same thing, the Reign of Quantity. i'm a little more soft on Chardin, myself, who gets grilled by both Mumford and Stiegler/L-G, but it's because i think there has to be some optimism in there somewhere to go with all of the blackpilling. and because Confucius himself is ultimately a warm-hearted and compassionate man, who says, if there is no humanity, no benevolence, no charity, then there is no point. Xi is a legalist, and that's a fascinating connection, very much like Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor: like the GI, the Legalists are ultimately salty about Confucius for espousing a vision of human beings that actual people could never live up to, and which filled them with guilt and rage and bitterness. Land himself is the coldest Marxist alive, in a similar way.

but man cannot live on black pills, Deleuze and amphetamines alone. there has to be some other thing in there. it was the plot of Ultima 5 also: once the Virtues become the Ethics a shadow falls over the realm. there are things that cannot be made into hard and fast rules, and the molten gold carried in the crucible of cold iron - however necessary - isn't the same thing.

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aye sir. we seem to be of the same mind about these things. cue the Twilight Zone theme.

i suppose we can leave it there for tonight. and we don't want to outrage this other anon any further. he appears to be bothered by our use of lowercase and tasteful aesthetics. so may the great tao be with you until next time.

>uh, I mean, "Hey, I hope Taoism is interesting for you."
>ugh. hideous. using capitalization is just so annoying.