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>we are all "unconscious prophets of the Kali Yuga."

i love this sentiment, for a lot of reasons. not least of which is because of the internal anti-scapegoat logic of it. the kali-yuga is not to be *blamed* on anyone. not the bourgeoisie, not the jews, not the liberals, not trump, not the space aliens. i really like this idea. we are *all* unconscious prophets in that sense. i like this idea a great deal. whatever this horrible monster is, it belongs to thinking.

>Those who misdiagnose the problem are usually the same people who think the problem can be fixed, reformed, or reversed, and by doing so are unaware they are contributing to the unfolding entropy.

this. so much of this. who watches the watchmen? even psychoanalysts have psychoanalysts - which is a kind of a workaround, but you know what i mean.

>the key may be to do nothing at all.
there's definitely something in this, the old buddhist idea: don't just do something, sit there. a classic.

but of course there are reasons why peterson has become a thing to. clean room, sort self, all this. it's all legit.

but yeah, anon, you've really sold me hard on marty glass. between that book, those questions linked above, the graham ward essay, and other stuff you've written about here, it's really been a fucking great discovery. there was a thread not so long ago where some anon was looking for correspondence between girard and guenon and i really struggled to give anything like an answer...pretty sure i just shitposted up a mushroom cloud as usual. this has been way more promising in that regard thanks to some of the stuff you've illuminated me on in this thread. so thanks are very much in order.

it's pretty brilliant too to have all of those figures talking about what's going on. kind of like rashomon: the truth is there but it's hidden by the overlapping narratives. in the end whatever the truth is necessarily escapes us is both a mega-downer but also probably a lot more important to understand than whatever the fuck we were believing in before just for the sake of believing in something.