/lit/ - Literature

>The administrators of large bureaucratic institutions are not evil, they’re merely possessed by evil. They typically have no agency whatsoever, having sold it off so long ago. They are only the highest ranking non-player characters. People reach high administrative positions because they — more fully than any of their peers — are the most perfectly empty, passive vessels for whatever the institution needs at any moment. In the academic context, most high-level administrators did, at some point, knowingly make a Faustian bargain, where they traded the truth-seeking vocation of the true intellectual for a bigger paycheck (the terms are nearly explicit in academia). That is a true sin, for which there will be a reckoning, but that is none of my business. Don’t judge these poor souls, pray for them.

source:
https://theotherlifenow.com/the-highest-ranking-non-player-characters/

this is a fascinating read. it is becoming increasingly clear to me that Land is basically like Nietzsche for academic Marxism. with a completely different set of sources, he wound up concluding on the same things Peterson came to. now it's Justin Murphy's turn. liberalism takes the point on all of these questions, because that One Narrative leads the way for all the others. the Narrative destroyed Bret Weinstein's career also.

i don't believe that the point of all of this is to make a hard-right reactionary turn. it will be enough simply to recognize that there is an awesome degree of collusion today between the left and capitalism, which is how you get The Narrative. Landian horror is precisely what gets buried by it, and it's not like Land himself is any kind of angel. the irony of it is that the human monster created - a pathological collectivism - may actually have the power to absorb the inhuman monster - capital - but in all of this it's like The Thing in the end. whatever strain of mutation eventually proves dominant means death to everything it touches one way or the other. whatever wins this battle comes for you next.

i wonder if this is was what life was like in the Soviet Union, or in China during the Great Leap Forward. you know something is wrong, but you have no way of breaking through to the other side. part of you is just hoping for the collapse: but look what happened in Russia, when that did take place (or in Germany). chaos, and then the new strong-man leaders.