/lit/ - Literature

the world said No to this, but unfortunately things don't always work out the way we want them to. as Bert Cooper says, there are rules, and there are other rules.

if you want a sense of why people seem to always act as if they have their backs to the wall, why look farther than the failure of OWS to bring about Change You Can Believe In? because there was too much. i argued about this at length with a friend of mine who has opinions i take seriously because he is both a buddhist and a doctor. and he was, morever, solidly on the side of OWS. his answer was, they couldn't organize all of their demands into a neat profile because *they just wanted everything to go,* and there was no way of hierarchizing these demands *in and of themselves,* let alone *to do so for the sake of guys in skyscrapers to then decide whether they would listen,* because you know what the answer would have been:

Fuck You, Hippies

and what you got out of this was the progressive stack. this cannot be a crazy thesis. why would things have turned out any other way? the Stack formed up and it discovered the serious Blood Magic that lay at the core of all postmodern theory, which is race and gender. and it would have worked *there* to create order and it is it continuing to create order *now,* right up to 2018, and i see absolutely no reason why this won't continue. the only reason why someone might not want it to continue is because it becomes in the end a nuclear arms race. and it without a doubt produced Trump in 2016, and the hysteria now just goes back and forth in ways that make the pendulum oscillate ever more wildly and reactively.

that's our world. it calls for a Rectification of Names, in a great many senses. underneath all of this stuff lies, imho, Hegel and Marx, and Uncle Nick also. but when we catch up to the present day something else is called for, and YH is asking all the right questions now.