/lit/ - Literature

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the other thing - there is always another thing - is that what the Wachowskis figured out is that *orgy* is perhaps the fundamental driver of all of this, at the bottom. psychoanalysis tends to keep the focus on the desires of the individual, which eventually trickles over and becomes the full-bore Deleuzian BwO. but Zion itself has religious events: the huge, sweaty dance parties at the core of the earth. that is the great libidinal motor and fuel.

again, to contrast this to Herbert: where are the Fremen raves? they don't have any, because *jihad is their rave.* that's what they are really waiting for. when the Fremen relax, they have knife-fights. you don't see a lot of *dancing Fremen.* or, for that matter, even *smiling* ones. the Big Book of Fremen Humor would be pretty small - essentially, 'And Then His Knife Chipped and Shattered.' the same would hold, we imagine, for the Bene Gesserit: did you hear the one about the Kwisatz Haderach? fuck you, we're telling it again anyways...

what the Matrix exposes are the fundamental limitations of political theology, the inherent impossibility of construing the transcendent political ideality in terms of the largest possible crowd. that utopia is the Matrix itself, which is what people wanted. Chosen Ones are debugging processes, and nothing more: they are iterative protocols designed to find the contradictions within the system and resolve them, such that the hall of mirrors stretches on to infinity. what effects this will be pleasure, and prophecy. we do not doubt that Trinity genuinely loves Neo, but there is a subtle catch: she loves him because he is the Chosen One. romantic love seals the deal: what if she loved him and he wasn't the Chosen One? or, more problematically: what if he was the Chosen One, and he did things that made her despise him? what if his first order of business was destroying the Matrix, such that millions died in the name of a Greater Good, and a continuing war against the machines? this is a question that Star Wars is incapable of asking: what about circumstances in which the Rebels take Rebellion too far? what happens if the Rebels build, or steal, their own Death Star, and use it to blow up Imperial planets to justify their own wars? what then? the whole dichotomy would collapse.

but that is *our* world. the mass man is *always* Good, precisely because of his massiveness. the Last Man doesn't care who the Leader is, so long as he does not disappoint the desire for political resolution to philosophical problems. but philosophical problems are irreducible to the future of the polis, and that is *precisely how Utopia works.*