/lit/ - Literature

>>11051815
Congratulations, you have found out that 90% of all useful philosophy ended with the Classic period. Then you've got a lot of dudes trying to justify the Church's policies through the middle ages, and then some other dudes who think they're edgy by going against it. These days the only field where there's still hope for substance is art, and that is only because some eccentrics here and there isolate themselves and do something unique, because the system sure as hell is trying to normalize everything. Wherever you need some sort of systemic approval, there is hardly any innovation beyond academics wanking each other. Perhaps now you begin to understand just how south things went after Christianity.

Evola is annoying; not because he isn't smart but because he, like all traditionalists, deny progress, and they also deny how insanely shit life mostly is for a creature such as humans.

I mean, the same kind of thinking he espouses is the same kind of thinking that Knut Hamsun or any other reactionary espouses: Farm life was beautiful and noble, privileged hierarchies are good for absolutely no reason, and knowing your place is a virtue, even though your place is guaranteed to be shit.

Nevermind the fact that life for most human beings up until 1950 was a complete shit show where people literally had to wash their clothes upstream by hand and they died of blacklung at age 40.

>>10431875
>Heidegger realized he couldn't answer them. He didn't finish Being and Time, and ultimately gave up on philosophy. Enter poetry.

More like he realized Being couldn't be captured in language when language was used as a simple tool.

But Being could be captured in language when the goal was something else than simply trying to explain something. This is literally the reason Nietzsche wrote Thus Spoke Zarathustra, because it is impossible to simply generate an answer to all fundamental human problems directly and openly.