/lit/ - Literature

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but here is a non-meme answer: i wish to lead a kind of cheap and dirty whirlwind tour of intellectual history, in which we raise a bunch of old ghosts from the dead and call them by their True Names so that we are not held in their thrall. i don't know today if anything like great social change is possible if we approach it either as zealots or as cynics. to not be triggered by things, and to cultivate an indifference to ideas that doesn't turn us into grim Stoics or unironic Protestants, or any other kind of beautiful soul...

i become in this way very much like the postmodernists that i hate, there is no question. the Catholics seem pretty good to me, and the analysts (that these are both linked by the concept of confession-as-therapy is no doubt part of the charm.) but i think i'm also inclined towards confession without so much of the sin aspect, mainly because i don't think anyone is qualified to pass judgment in that way.

sanity is enough. just being agreeable and useful, capable of love and work. it helps to have an understanding of the metaphysicians for this, so that we don't wind up enslaved by our own imaginations, or the imaginations of others. like pic rel. so many dreams to get trapped in, so many perverse ways to fuck and get fucked. that's the Wild Ride, basically...