/lit/ - Literature

>>12365724
and LOTR is just a fucking incredible work. the sheer depth of Tolkien's understanding boggles my mind. i can basically use tropes from it to talk about virtually anything, but i always find myself kind of in awe at the scope of his understanding myself, the things that he knew about the human condition. they still hold up; if anything, that book gets *better* with age. in a literary sense, that is truly achieving the summit, i think. and again, Aragorn as an analogue for Christ isn't just a fucking ten-cent piece of meme literary criticism either.

and there are other things, too. just images like this that make me feel cozy to think about. here's the boy, Awakening people. what a fucking adventure Christianity was. when you think about the spread of a religion, the places it goes, the shapes it takes...and that ultimately it is just about this awakening to a nondual consciousness. even the Tibetans were apparently a pretty warlike bunch, and then they discovered the Buddha and went, oh. ah. right. this feels good. and indeed it does. it's like discovering an alternative to blindness. except instead of blindness, it's ignorance. the paradox of ignorance being: you actually don't really know what the fuck you were doing before, but one thing is for certain, you don't want to go back to doing it again. religion just makes a lot of sense to me these days, when you approach it from the right way. and Perennialism - of which Theosophy seems to be an interesting forerunner - is just a good look. i was reading a bunch of Theosophy stuff and it strikes me as being an early encounter of European thinkers with Eastern/nondual ideas. but Huxley doesn't present his own book as being a Great Discovery, or himself as some kind of master occultist either, like Blavatsky or Crowley. he doesn't need to. it just makes sense.

so yeah. religion, kind of a fascinating idea. remember when we used to think all the conflicts on earth were caused over religious fractions? now it seems like that criticism can be more accurately placed on academic Marxism. and i say this because i love academic Marxism, and i've read lots of the big guys in that area. but frankly i can't really find a flaw with building a bridge to the ninth century these days.

>>12365888
10/10, shut up and take my money

i love this idea. Land as Christmas Future, Jobs as Past and Zuck as Present...hnng. also hnng. and YH as Marley! oh man. oh the feels right now. the feels

i'm going to be thinking about this in days to come now i suspect. i mean isn't this it? isn't /acc stuff exactly the *terrified reflections on capital* and where it is going? /acc types actually don't want to play the morals game (at least, in the way it should be played, you know, with Dickensian love for your fellow man) but seriously, i cannot find a flaw in this pitch anon. i think you're on to something here. switch Zuckerberg for Sloterdijk maybe too.

>>12366099
me too anon

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