/lit/ - Literature

>>12604745
and Uncle Nick, continuing to knit his own purple sweater, goes on being his usual coldly brilliant self:

>§5.641 — At the greatest scale of historical analysis, Macro is characterized by the way it places itself beyond the bourgeois definition of civilization. Among modernity’s ascendant prudential classes, high time-preference (or low impulse-control) served as distinctive markers of barbarism. Civilization thus acquired a measure, corresponding to a time-horizon. Industrial civilization was based upon psychological tolerance for efficient indirect methods. Roundabout production had secured its ethic. Macro breaks with all of this. Imprudence is now re-valorized on Keynesian grounds as pro-social stimulation. To spend is glorious. Anti-bourgeois cultural politics and administrative economic doctrine become one.

as for the wallpaper, i always associated the ethos of this game with the cheeriest possible version of Land that i can imagine: Kantian Space Enlightenment, and a universe in which he is not required to be as unhappy as he is and to have done the kinds of things that he did do so that the world could know interstellar autonomy and something other than industrial hellscape. Space is cold and unforgiving and yet it is also free.

or you could just change FTL to BTC i suppose and have the same thing. either way. i just seem to enjoy perversely imagining worlds other than this one.
>you mean pataphysics you insufferable dope
>yes thank you inner self
>np fucktard