/lit/ - Literature

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>I assume you've seen this before, but I think it warrants mentioning.
Kojima is an auteur. that clip is the greatest, as is pretty much everything else MGS.

>And when the majority of those individuals seek growth for the sake of growth, when those individuals end up trying to "get theirs" and say "tough luck" to those on the losing end, you sit on the sideline and sigh?
i won't have to, because they're going to go on creating their own fucking wheels of Karmic Social Credit. how's the future looking for terrorism, riot, and the return of Unironic Fascism? pretty good. those are features and not bugs. they come with Fuck You metaphysics. i'm not into Fuck You metaphysics. people pay prices for things in ways they don't even realize it. the Cold War nearly blew the earth to pieces for these reasons. that will probably continue.

>and so, where do people turn? To their family or their extended family - ethnic or religious, and the tribalist struggles continue. Do you try to counterbalance this at all, or allow it to perpetually rage on?
i think religion & mysticism are a counterbalance *against* tribalism, fundamentally. it's like what Douglas Murray said: the great 20C tyrants did what they did because they were convinced God was *not* watching them. the most destructive forms of political zeal follow from the absence of the mystic. it's what leads to CTRL > everything. it means the polis. it means a lot of things. it means a *terrible lack of suspicion about one's own motives.*

>And your answer is that there is no solution. Is that really a superior position?
my answer is *wait.* don't pull the trigger. Do Nothing. take a pause that refreshes. is this an option in 24/7 capitalism? it is not. that's why my hope is that things begin on a very very small level. about the smallest imaginable.

>This is a refusal to consider a solution. Care to justify this?
the solution is, Go Slow. take a breath. w/ev. withdraw from politics. much as La Boetie says.

>So why not take preventative measures as soon as possible rather than just allow calamity to take place and sigh? Because acting would be imposing one's will on others? What justifies individuals exerting their will or "war-machine clusters" and not states?
calamity will happen anyways. the hate does not need your help. in terms of preventative measures, read BttE. every prevention leads to the next prevention. you wind up in MAD situations and SoC's. and the parts of Heidegger i *like* are all psychotherapeutic in this sense. to allow things to be as they are is what is necessary. things have to unfold a certain way. it's schizoid paranoia that does the damage.

>f there's superabundance there's no need to consider the questions of desire, there's no need for conflict whatsoever, because infinitely many beings can be supported and all of their desires satisfied.
you're missing my point. there is *a metaphysics of scarcity amidst superabundance.* that is the issue.