/lit/ - Literature

>>13003895
thank you for the thoughtful post. this does make sense to me, although obviously i will almost certainly be as difficult and unruly about studying this as i am about virtually everything else i study.

but i think this is probably the right way to go about things given how i am wired. the appeal of philosophy for me is *being able to put things into words,* to conceptualize, so that you are in a way kind of relieved of this feeling of knowing that there is something there you need to express but lacking the jargon, the concept, the whatever. when you can actually just *say* a thing, or describe it, in such a way that it makes sense, it is much easier to let go of it. the guys who i have read who i have been most indebted to are largely those guys who always said something that i thought i was the only one who understood it, i just couldn't explain it that well. and the more of that you come in contact with, the easier it is to, i don't know, get along with the nature of things. and of course there is that peculiar moment of sharing those ideas with other people, and subtly changing the nature of your relationships. because the other person always goes: 'oh, well, yes, *obviously.*' but then you're thinking: oh, well if it was so fucking obvious, then why the fuck didn't anybody say it like this? i'm sure you can relate . the obvious is often the most simple and at the same time the most deeply hidden, because so many of the things that we take as a priori realities are mostly hidden right under our noses, where we are least likely to see them.

and again, the itch of paranoia is helpful in this regard for inquiring into things in this way, that subtle sense of Something Not Being Quite Right Here that animates a whole crowd of people or provides that sense of gravity in a room, the thing that animates a thousand forced and uncomfortable laughs, shitty jokes, and so on. that, whatever That is. which is undoubtedly partly, if not *wholly*, part of my own psyche.

i also like the concept of skilful means for this reason, of being able to do things without becoming attached to them so completely, turning everything into oneself. Heidegger was quite illuminating for me: aletheia as opposed to veritas, the releasing action versus the confirming action, and so on. of course, in the age of hyper-simulation, one winds up struggling mightily indeed to distinguish anything that one is doing oneself from being just merely another copy...and which is also good, because nothing is more odious than people having existential crises and enacting them publicly and not realizing that the calls are coming from inside the house. here again: okay, so then what? if everything is shitty techno-processes...and the pull of the Sith begins. if i were in charge of a Star Wars film i would probably set it up so that for at least one one-off film, the Jedi cannot use the force, while the Sith can. and a Dark Yoda (Land?) wouldn't be unwelcome either...