/lit/ - Literature

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>you know, a plutocracy of tech-billionaire cyborgs probably won't be so bad. just don't fucking raise my taxes!
he actually has a considerably more nuanced perspective on this, if you look into his (admittedly contrarian) notions of restoring essentially old-school patronage in return for services rendered by said plutocrats to the state. my sense is that Sloterdijk's preferred brand of tech-billionaires would not be Janus-faced shitsticks like Zuckerberg cozying up to whatever national government agrees that Facebook is like a chair. if this means giving Elon Musk whatever the German equivalent of a peerage is (a peerage?) or putting up a big statue of Peter Thiel because he decided to pay everyone's college tuition or whatever else, i'm fine with this. Bezos wanted to buy Lichtenstein outright at one point anyways, i'd prefer something in between that.

>also, immigrants kinda smell bad. literally.
where are you getting this? w/ev, everybody smells bad, including home-grown idiots. ignorance and decadence of all kinds smell bad. Nietzsche did not probably smell bad.

Sloterdijk has one of the sanest and best arguments for Nietzsche as anthropotechnics i have ever read, he's one of those Good (and slightly insane) Europeans i occasionally hear about. there's very little he says that i disagree with, even in Rules for the Human Zoo. and he's also one of the very few guys i can think of who holds up well when seen from the Land Rover: capitalism is only a cultural accelerator, and whatever it is that people want, capital brings it to them. if the people are incapable of saying what it is they want other than Capital, they get Woke Capital (and which is, hilariously, neither Woke nor Capital, and entirely what is deserved).

Land is a hard corrective for the excesses of postmodernity, and Sloterdijk doesn't want tech-billionaire cyborgs, he just wants a lot more of the Neetch. that's hardly crazy.

as for the art, i don't know. draw your own conclusions.