/lit/ - Literature

>>12921364
i very much agree.

>But there is no incentive to communicate with any other node let alone follow the same guiding logic outside of natural selection, purely. Which is completely soul-deadening.
but haven't you answered your own question? you know there's an incentive to communicate because the non-communication is deadening. i agree, *forced communication* sucks too, just look at how the Chinese have to roll every day. they all have to basically live with this stupid app on constantly and it's horrible. and yet i was thinking to myself just the other day how horribly *attractive* this would be in many parts of the world today - just imagine if you had a fucking Woke Calculator that you could update in real time, that quantified your virtue all the way, all of it...it's horrible.

*all this shit is horrible.* it is a fucking *smorgasbord* of shitty dishes. but we can so clearly see why we have gotten here, it's media explosion. McLuhan saw it coming, as did many others. and we don't have a way of shutting it off. maybe it can't be shut off. could be that also. but just ratcheting up more hate and fear and tension and paranoia and grief and reciprocity is only going to lead to a clusterfuck of epic proportions. if you're Hegel, maybe you can say that this is necessary. maybe. or maybe it will just be epically fucking stupid, and catastrophic, and whatever else.

Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Heidegger all prefigure some very interesting stuff going on in the East, imho. Schopenhauer loves him some Vedas. Nietzsche's Dionysus is like *right next door to Shiva,* and i don't think it's so hard to draw parallels between the ER and the Gita. Heidegger says only a god can save us - he's right about that - and also is way more agreeable to Zen than is Lacan, who says 'these people can't be psychoanalyzed!' this is true, and wonderfully so. and i think Lacan was pretty keen.

we need to put some of these things together, usefully. that's all i'm saying. i think it can be done, and frankly it's a fucking relief sometimes to not just stare into the void constantly and laugh grimly with Land as it all falls apart. even if he too is confounded by the surprising fact that Capital prefers Wokeness more than cyberpunk (although pseudo-cyberpunk is nevertheless produced as a byproduct).