/lit/ - Literature

>>9930540

are you me?

I don't pack mine away, but the main bookshelf in my bedroom is filled with books I've read. Also daddy issues ladies are really into great theoretical discussions and very kinky sex.

>>9395291

Ecology of Freedom - Murray Bookchin

It's too late for you.

>>9008781
The will to truth is founded on the will not to deceive. The will not to deceive oneself is good. It is good because übermenschen like Nietzsche, Harris, and I affirm it to be good. We affirm it to be good because we are good. We are good because we are strong. We are strong because we are in a state of being that prefers power (the process of self-perfection, not the technological mode of being) to "life." We prefer power to life because we are courageous. We are courageous because we do not need to deceive ourselves in order to affirm all aspects of life. We affirm all aspects of life because we know everything backwards and forwards, up and down, is required for beings such as us to exist. It is the ultimate affirmation of life. Jordan Peterson does not act in accordance with the maxim "I will not deceive myself." The will to deceive oneself is bad. It is bad because Jordon Peterson affirms it to be good. He affirms it to be good because he is bad. He is bad because he is weak. He is weak because he is in a state of being that prefers "life" to power. He prefers life to power because he is cowardly. He is cowardly because he needs to deceive himself in order to affirm some aspects of life. He does not affirm all aspects of life because his claim to love life is nothing more than another example of his self-deception.

It is possible for the will to truth to be nested in our morality but not in Peterson's. Building machines and synthesizing chemicals and performing scientific experiments, for example, concern us only when they aid us in our process of self-overcoming. Peterson dishonestly conflates the will to truth and the process of self-perfection to the will to carelessly dominate and exploit nature. A scientist who deceives himself can and will create weapons. In fact, the caricatured scientific worldview that Peterson accuses Harris of holding is founded on an error: dualism between mind and body, but since H only accepts scientific theories provisionally and is willing to overturn his theories if the foundations of those theories are leveled, he is within the realm of skepticism despite the fact that he may or may not spoil that skepticism by being overly convinced of the power of the scientific method (which cannot be conflated with the will to not deceive). H uses the dictionary definition of truth: "that which is in accordance with fact or reality." P's definition of truth is more akin to: "that which is in accordance with fact or reality with the following exceptions." P would say that H's definition of truth implicitly includes "with the following exceptions" but that is only because he conflates the general will to truth with a specific scientific framework of viewing reality. P would also say that his convictions too are provisional. Even if this is the case, it is inconsequential because his definition of truth and his distortion of H's views reveal a morality where self-deception and foolishness are accepted.