/lit/ - Literature

>>12007089
>fucking sick
i'm feeling pretty smug about this tbqh. as for pic rel there isn't even an English *translation,* let alone a libgen copy. sad!

>So far, there are no deeds.
there are not.

>On the other hand, How To Survive Postmodernity also comes with a toolkit for How To Recover From Postmodernity-- assuming human civilization makes it to 2050, Cosmotech could be one of the important template documents for how to create the next phase of civilization, one that has finally seen a marriage between the schools of thought that are currently positioned in the archaic polarity of Occident and Orient, something that can maintain the necessary modularity to understand societies which don't conform to our preconceptions of what a society can look like in order for us to learn from it.
preach it

>And really, if cybernihilism is the necessary result of Landian misanthropy, then Zen and Dao are positioned at the End of Nihilism, the place you sit down for a drink of water after convulsing with vanity for ten years in the desert of meaning.
preach
it

>When you confront Daoism with questions of "what does this all mean" it laughs at all the assumptions you've made to get to that point.
it does

the recipe for fascism is Hegel/Marx + Nietzsche; the recipe for Xi Jinping Thought is Marx + Confucius; Marx + More Marx gives you Stalin; and the recipe for Defenestration, Yes! is Marx + Foucault. the Hegelian meme-magic real, a little too real. and the recipe for Land himself is Marx + D&G, plus others. but mostly just that. Marx + anything leads to the Wild Ride, and he got it all from Hegel, who got it from...? the German Idealists are legit sorcerers, and the Sorcerer's Apprentice is also for real. it was Jean Baudrillard's favorite parable also.

Fantasia: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rAFAWj0930

in the East the Revolution was *completed* in a way that it is perhaps simply not wired for the West to do. Marx + Confucius really works. when you think of German fascism, you don't think Marx, you think Crushing Bolshevism, but it's because Hitler supplied the workaround: mythopoetic Aryanism "solved" for Marx and for Nietzsche. if the state is an organic whole, the paranoia goes *outwards* and not *inwards.* the Stalinist model also has a purgative tendency, but different ideological goals. these are crucial differences, but the key point is that in the end, and from a certain vantage point, it's a very similar process, though no less mutually exclusive for being so. rather the opposite, just as Girard says, the war between twins...

but Marx and the Buddha? i mean there is Japanese fascism also, and you can read all about in the Kyoto School. didn't work for them, tho. instead one of the most fabulously literary cultures of all time got atom-bombed. twice.

Zen Acceleration, pretty cool. and it's neither purely Eastern nor Western, really...

A Fistful of Yojimbo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9PF1c0CRo