/lit/ - Literature

>>9847728
>If this was a real life conversation he'd already have been exposed.

they call him...the Conversator.

seriously, 'exposed?' who gives a flying fuck?

>you've been encouraged too much
you know what else i enjoy? *giving* encouragement. big fan of encouragement. like it a lot. i think it's going places. good scene. just like everything about it.

fuck exposure. in the 21C. listen closely: *there is nothing there to Expose.* this is life on planet meme: given the sponge to wipe away the horizon. wat do? wat do.

>What were we doing when we unchained this earth from its sun? Whither is it moving now? Whither are we moving? Away from all suns? Are we not plunging continually? Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions? Is there still any up or down? Are we not straying, as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is not night continually closing in on us? Do we not need to light lanterns in the morning?

hey, here's a crazy idea. about that horizon. how about we *consider re-horizoning.* and i can already feel a strong vibe of Lol You Don't Understand Nietzsche as i write this.

cynicism *sucks.* ressentiment *sucks.* what i like? Hey, How About This. a cool & sagely conversation. dem vinegar tasters. dat school of athens. can into.

it's why i'm all about girard. the deal today isn't Sexy Philosopher vs Fuckface Pseud over the soul of the Gotham-polis. more like a fucking post-apoc wasteland of scavengers heading nowhere in gasmasks made to filter out the toxic miasma of total relativism. through which *also* stalks no small number of homeless fuckfacepilled Guardians who will shoot first and ask questions later for reasons they do not understand.

me? i prefer *disarmament.* i prefer an interesting & engaging conversation between individuals *excited to talk about what interests them* and *not so much inclined to immediately pull the trigger when confronted with a new idea.*

none of us are in the republic anymore my guy. none of us. it is a bombed-out hiroshima. life amidst the ruins. maybe there is still some life down there in the bomb shelters: *far* below the surface. on the surface: death. and all kinds of lost post-apoc wilderness scavengers.

i like politeness. i like etiquette. i like grace & tact & charm & refinement & comedy. i like a *light touch.* i like that. i like cool coolness. not so much: Exposing Teh Soodz. 99.9999999% of everything is pseud.

benefit of the doubt. philosophical charity. disarmament. unclenching sphincters. *steelmanning and not strawmanning.* much much else. i like philosophy in the age of apocalypse. i like that wasteland salvage ops program. i like antifragility. i like Getting the Band Back Together with no final Band Together event-horizon even remotely in sight. i like it anyways.

i sincerely & not partially hope you find that based philosophical conversation you are looking for anon.

>keep ithaka always in your mind

>>3503471
>start reading some Rorty
You got me partner...