/lit/ - Literature

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlandish_Proverbs

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In simple terms, this explains the turn towards immaterialism, the relation of the object, and something like the post-ironic mysticism that materialists now rely on to keep their rationalist systems alive. For example, Land's contradictory position of irrational hatred of Socrates while advocating for the mechanistic rationalism of Kant and AI. Or the other side, the leftists who have completely abandoned anticapitalist thought and instead attempt a reformation of its minor effects, its appearances - a completely irrational and yet somehow rational position. Both are effectively a reduced type of romanticism. And there is nothing separating this thought from the law of liberalism itself, yet such systems suggest that they are capable of an escape from modernity.

This is a mistake deeply ingrained within the modern era, a contradiction in which the ideas inform the law while denying its very form, even as they relate to it, and are instrumentalised by it. This creates the sense of inescapability so prominent in our time, and also explains the tendency towards leveling of organisations (the process by which politically and even religiously opposed groups begin to take on the same essence). Capital is seen as an all-powerful force precisely because the form is denied and the theoretical position causes this inescapability. Just as eating an apple only for its health benefits begins a condition towards sickness in the mind, negation and critique entrap themselves within the very limits they set up as a means of metaphysical escape. There is a reason why tilting at windmills is such an iconic figure of action in our time, it relates to our contradictory way of seeing the world and our means of being. The modernist accuses the theist of building up a shadow which becomes a god through law, yet this is precisely the relation to being that formed and created the modern world.