/lit/ - Literature

>>11991472
there's no evidence that they actually met, true, but i never let Reality get in the way of a good meme shitpost. once upon a time the Vikings converted to Christianity. no end of barbaric wanderers have found peace in a nondual understanding, each in their own way. and myths of death, resurrection and wisdom are universal truisms enough.

>>11991524
cool. well, i'm certainly glad he visited us. hopefully he'll come back with more, Fuck Yeah Space Taoism is about as awesome a contribution to this thread as anything i have made (and, frankly, is probably even better).
alas, Aminom Marvin has left us alone, for now. perhaps he will return. here's hoping.

>>11991536
i'm on my third red eye today. large, one espresso shot, plus too much sugar. easy to find. my actual amphetamine days are largely behind me now but i have fond memories of them.

>>11991538
the religion of the city and the religion of the country are not the same thing. Spengler knew the deal. and even in his world there was room for the bromance between the knight and the priest. and it wasn't one instead of the other, or the impossible double-whammy. balance in all things is the way to go, especially in tragic circumstances.

>>11991555
>>11991582
ecology is for realsies, that's part of what this is about. again, Land is not saying acceleration will save anyone (well, that's not exactly true, but the full exegesis of why Uncle Nick thinks what he thinks what he thinks has taken a mega-thread to unpack). but i want to talk about this more at length in this thread also: namely, that there is no surprise we should have wound up with a society of immanence, intoxication, explosive expenditure, waste, squandering, and so on. Bataille is way way good for busting open any residual traces of the kinds of normative thinking that leads people towards ideology, but beyond a certain horizon a kind of much more sustainable long-term thinking is required, and it is basically anathema to radical politics (which is in turn anathema to bourgeois thought, not that anybody calls Planet Meme bourgeois anymore. and yet that is what it is). some dose of Aeschylus is required to go along with the Sophocles (and a little Laozi/Confucius was never a bad look either, imho).

>>11991647
>>11991653
Space Taoism Guy, consider yourself uproariously applauded on behalf of Cosmotech (that's at least one person, but i'm sure there are others). that was the post of the century imho and i absolutely will be re-posting that in the next Cosmotech thread also for future consideration. i absolutely loved it. ty anon. incomplete tho it may be, it is exactly where i am interested in taking these conversations. fucking outstanding. thank ye very kindly for sharing this with us.

>>11991673
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>>11991684
Stiegler also, and Simondon. you don't have to read them *first* tho. read the guys you want to read first, always, then go back and look into their sources after if you want more.

>>11991710
not very

the difference between the moderns and the ancients is that the ancients didn't try to prevent suffering or evolve complicated ways of rationalizing it away.