/lit/ - Literature

>>11363818
this would be sub-optimal.

i like to think sometimes - naively - that all of this shit is necessary as a kind of prelude to a wiser and more enlightened planetary civilization, in which we realize that human beings really are the point, and that nothing can really effectively box in our imaginations. we're not reducible to 2D drones, even if dystopias and ideology really do 'work' on us in this way. education, intelligence, and homo superior/anthropotechnic stuff makes more sense than rehashing the wars of ideology and the clash of civilizations.

it's interesting that hegel actually says there has to be a period of discipline and subordination to the order of things in the PoS. right-hegelian stuff is pretty keen, and goes against the grain of a lot of stuff we take for granted today. it's even vaguely JBP-ish. it's human progress in individuals that matter, and a society or civilization that made human betterment its main goal would be interesting to think about. it's possible that such a civilization would always flirt with decadence or producing the society of neoliberal last-man global tourists, but it wouldn't necessarily need to be so. building better people might begin with the rejection of ressentiment - including getting over a very subtle trap of shitting on the other guy in order to feel better about yourself. nietzsche as a guidepost to a better society without all the heroic grandstanding or callous dismissal of the less fortunate, while at the same time realizing the power of self-destructive ideologies.

no doubt this makes sense in my cringetastic fanfic more than in reality tho. maybe IRL we do have to go through the process of killing the shit out of each other in large numbers again on the way to realizing this.

as the president says,
>sad!