/lit/ - Literature

seriously though, peterson aside

CLEAN

YOUR

FUCKING

ROOM

If it isn't clean then what is? It's your living space. If you don't keep it clean, keep it up to the standards of civility, who will keep it that way? You take up space, you are present in the objects around, you are reflected in their arrangement. As long as you exist, the relationship between you and the outside world exists. If your room isn't clean, it's dirty, and what does it mean if your room is dirty? Well? Why is it that way? You may think you are a vagabond, a societal rebel and cleaning your room is for suckers, and doing manual labor is for squares and failures... This is the foolish arrogance of a child. You have to work. You have to survive. You have to take care of yourself. Otherwise you will your own annihilation. The world is your bedrock, your foundation. You cannot ascend any higher without planting your foot firmly and deliberately upon it. Clean your room.

>Lao Tzu

Never had any intention of writing anything until someone asked him to.

>Buddha

Didn't write anything.

>Jesus Christ

Didn't write anything.

>Socrates

Didn't write anything.

GOAT's don't write.

>>10244101
The key sentence imo is:

>imitation has no place at all in matters of morality

because a will could not be perfect if it was dependent upon something exterior to it for direction.

This is relevant to Girard because in his view Christ was himself the end of the cycle of imitation. Christ instead followed God alone. Kant himself references this in the quote. Christ is the bearer of a perfect will, which alone ceases to use others as a means to an end and therefore ends arbitrary sacrifice. This is a clear message of both Girard and Kant.