/lit/ - Literature

>>11998790
>That the human being was something to be surpassed was already said by Nietzsche - and in a sense by the Platonics in that they believed that to become his best possible self man should stop being himself and become god (namely, that evolution into something non-human or post-human was in order in our search for the good).

so this.

>On the other hand, dualistic metaphysics leaves space for “derailment” from history.

and, hence, the attraction of Revolution. and yet, imho, the age of the Revolution is over. it has to be over. Fukuyama gets shit on all the time for this, but in some sense he's right. we can always *return* to politics, but ultimately what is more important is a rapprochement with the meaning of capital (and tech) in the 21C, and clearly postmodernity is not the way. but neither, imho, is Unironic Totalitarianism (however effective it ultimately is in terms of job creation and ideological conformity). but this is because there are aspects of the philosophical meaning of the *polis* deeply inscribed on these processes, for which the thinkers par excellence are true heavyweights: Heidegger, Derrida, Levinas, and Girard. and of those four, Rene Girard, i choose you!

>entropic
and techno-capital as *negentropy,* also. this is where i always feel more than a little vertigo. because if the meaning of machine intelligence is its fundamentally negentropic nature, then...right? nobody *roots* for entropy, and yet negentropy is a kind of black hole also. thus - it is to be hoped - perhaps a little nondual Taoist metaphysics can set us up for thinking of the world as Cosmo-cyclic, in a humanist sense, even in a pure applied physics sense to think this way would be wrong. ultimately i think this is the kind of stuff that can explain why a panel of judges would convict a guy like Martin Shkreli rather than acquit him. there are rules, but Bert Cooper says, and there are other rules.

>are you struggling as well?
if these threads are not anything other than a portrait of struggle i have been doing it all wrong. without a doubt it's struggle, anon, it's fucking *shipwreck.*

>Also, lately I feel like I have been shifting toward all-including monistic/Hegelian metaphysics more and more since looking at things from a dualistic perspective really leaves you drained and constant wary of enemies, and makes you fearful of life and what could come.
the friend/enemy distinction is real. again, i think it comes from the (inevitable) Age of Suspicion in which we live. the parable of the madman is no joke. we're still there now. i don't want to be on it either, but the reading has at least told me why we are here, and why it is so hard to break from.

>>11997857
sorry, i'm confused by this. the Red Ice interview and the Murphy interview are two different things. both worth reading/listening, but they aren't the same thing.

>>11997586
'tis

>>11998649
for Confucius, i'm very fond of the Fingarette essay (see >>11991939).