/lit/ - Literature

>>10698441
Peterson's inflated ego does shine through with these posts, the fame really got to him.

>>10345837
>believing in idealogy
*sniff* that is not how it works, my friend

When will this meme of young people adopting conservatism to be edgy and unique stop? It doesn't make you an intellectual, nobody cares about your adolescent rebellion against liberal values inherited from /pol/ images. I'm fucking sick of it all.

>reposting the same image multiple times over the course of months

>just bee urself, don't get tied down to narrowminded firm beliefs xD
This is the most standard, liberal opinion you can have, the fact that you don't realize it shows how much you have assimilated of the dominant ideology.

"The ultimate postmodern irony of today is the strange exchange between Europe and Asia: at the very moment when "European" technology and capitalism are
triumphing worldwide at the level of the "economic infrastructure, the Judeo-
Christian legacy is threatened at the level of "ideological superstructure" in the
European space itself by New Age "Asiatic" thought, which, in its different guises
ranging from "Western Buddhism" to different "Taos," is establishing itself as
the hegemonic ideology of global capitalism. Therein resides the highest
speculative identity of opposites in today's global civilization: although "Western
Buddhism" presents itself as the remedy against the stressful tension of capitalist
dynamics, allowing us to uncouple and retain inner peace and Gelassenheit, it
actually functions as its perfect ideological supplement. One should mention here
the well-known concept of "future shock" that describes how people are no
longer psychologically able to cope with the dazzling rhythm of technological
development and the social changes that accompany it. Things simply move too
fast, and before one can accustom oneself to an invention, it has already been
supplanted by a new one, so that one more and more lacks the most elementary
"cognitive mapping." The recourse to Taoism or Buddhism offers a way out of
this predicament that definitely works better than the desperate escape into old
traditions. Instead of trying to cope with the accelerating rhythm of techno-
logical progress and social changes, one should rather renounce the very
endeavor to retain control over what goes on, rejecting it as the expression of
the modern logic of domination. One should, instead, "let oneself go," drift
along, while retaining an inner distance and indifference toward the mad dance
of accelerated process, a distance based on the insight that all this social and
technological upheaval is ultimately just a non-substantial proliferation of
semblances that do not really concern the innermost kernel of our being. One is
almost tempted to resuscitate the old infamous Marxist cliché of religion as the
"opium of the people," as the imaginary supplement to terrestrial misery. The
"Western Buddhist" meditative stance is arguably the most efficient way for us
to fully participate in capitalist dynamics while retaining the appearance of mental
sanity. If Max Weber were alive today, he would definitely write a second,
supplementary, volume to his Protestant Ethic , entitled The Taoist Ethic and the
Spirit of Global Capitalism."

>>9483167
Because anon, you can't just rely on society formed notions of morals and discard everyone who disagrees with those as satan.

>>9145355
>Fascism is a left-wing ideology

>>9123725
>we might as well say that Capitalism = Civilization

My Gott

>>9086102
May I interject?

Why do Americans have the false stereotype that all slavic people are "vodka-fueled"? Why does he accuse Zizek of having a drug problem based on no evidence besides a nervous tick?

>>8660813
>Capitalism IS making the world go round these days. It has produced many great things we've all enjoyed (unless you are a completely miserable misanthrope that has enjoyed nothing in his life).

>>8652522