/lit/ - Literature

>>12483150
>The relationship between Space Taoism and Pancreativism is the relationship between the technological and organic, they're distinct aspects.
dope
as
fuck

i actually really like the idea of a philosophy capable of *parallel process* (which is, of course, what i kind of like about the Tao itself). Land gets fascinated with the number zero, but he does it in the way that his mind works. i prefer Campbell's interpretation, that Tao is like a transcendent number itself, in a way, it precedes the ten thousand things. it can't be quantified in the same way, it isn't comparable to the rest. or perhaps it is like imagining - and to paraphrase - 'getting rid of God, because we *can* get rid of grammar' would be like - and it's certainly not the *absence* of the divine. quite the opposite!

because this to me is beautiful, the feeling that *speech becomes, at last, superfluous.* it's just *not necessary* to explain yourself, because the other guy already knows what you're going to say. no jokes, no fucking stammering, shit like this.
>Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?
and then what? then everything. total bliss. total fucking joy. that is the place i am always trying to get to. there is no point higher than this for me.

>Imagine everyone on the planet having such unique "religions" or rich and diverse perspectives, and exploring each other's freely, without fear of ideas.
this. this is the kind of postmodernity that i thought was the original plan. whatever it was, it was either broken from the start, or became wildly corrupted. or both. perennial philosophy was closer to what i thought the idea of a 'skepticism towards all metanarrative' implied, a deeper or fundamental underlying substrate. which turned out to be, imho, absolutely the case.

as it stands today philosophy has a lot more in common with *dentistry* than anything, i think. not necessarily a bad look, i guess. teeth rot and cause you a lot of fucking pain. back in the day you didn't have much of an option except to yank them, today you can do incredible things. that science has only gotten better, and we take a lot of that for granted. so i'd love a science of consciousness, it's the world's greatest mystery. we know a hell of a lot today and we are going to learn a hell of a lot more. but ideologies fuck with us, and so does a world of pants-on-head-retardedly awesome technological power, which is about nine yards away at this point from full-on mind control. would be nice if we could get the rest of the system to go along with it. the minor miracle is that we notice this shit at all. the rewards of self-inflicted crippling depression. why would it be any other way?

i know you know this stuff too amigo.