/lit/ - Literature

>>11788885
aw yeah. music links and atmospherics are always a bonus. thank ye kindly anon.

this seems thematic also.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXMhGADyMxE

somewhere along the line we lost sci-fi. i don't know what happened to it or why, but life without possibility of escape drives us meatbags squirrelly with anxiety and despair. maybe it's just built into us and when it doesn't work we turn to utopian species of ressentiment and retribution, anthropo-narcissism. but the stars remind you of how small you are, in the grand scheme of things. and it's easy to get carried away with the romance of Liberation and Emancipation. certainly worked for napoleon (who is a special case) but less so in the 20C experiments with modernist politics.

beautiful line here also from CS Lewis in the abolition of man, quote from a book on whitehead and quantum physics:

>You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.