/lit/ - Literature

>>14058292
fuck the haters, watch samurai movies

and so in a political sense, Zen Acceleration loves its wandering ronin. Yojimbo is probably the ultimate example, but Lone Wolf and Cub, Vagabond, the lost knights of Seven Samurai, the kung-fu practitioners of an number of martial-arts films (but particularly, the Drunken Masters) and so on. or, in its Occidental variety, Eastwood's Blondie and whoever else follows from him. you get the idea.

and yet such a disequilibrial society which depended on its occasional salvation by figures such as these would be a profoundly fucked up one. maybe this mirrors the nature of things, i don't know. but another point to be raised would be:

what if you needed somebody like this, and they just weren't there?

the Egyptian pharaohs of old spent millennia after millennia watching the Nile Flood, as did the Aztecs, in their way. this is not to shit on Aztec philosophy either, it's actually quite keen and dovetails well with a lot of continental theory also:

>>/lit/thread/S11670156

the more interesting question to be raised is about not only the notion of heroism, but how to have a society capable of producing those emissaries from the Outside which can restore the balance of things *before* either a) the polis itself (or the global environment) becomes so dilapidated it is beyond repair, or b) mutually assured destruction solves these problems for itself in their own ways, either by nuclear weapons, or terrorism and rampantly authoritarian anti-terror countermeasures, or - closer to home - we find ourselves agreeing that, yes, Nostrils Are Discrimination, and we should all only breathe through a single orifice, wearing our Woke Jeans, and so on. this is no more desirable than the unironic love for the Third Reich which becomes an inevitable corollary to this: Yes, Nostrils Are Discrimination, And That's Why I'm a God-Fearing Two-Nostril Man. because it's just all fucking stupid.

more ronin, please. not the dickhead variety. the awesome kind. ronin are necessary, fedoras and all. sometimes a White Knight actually is required in the unironic and non-Virtue Signal sense. you can hear this much from JBP also. but Twelve Rules For Death would just be a much more interesting read.