/lit/ - Literature

keep asking dumb questions until you become hopelessly tangled up them and need somebody to throw you a liferaft

bonus points if you decline the liferaft and go on drowning in your own madness like a true hero

>>12389074
>So it is you, girardfag?
it's me amigo.

>Why do people call you like this?
you mean, Space Taoist? i don't know. i'd prefer not to be called anything, really. too many labels get in the way of a good conversation. it is something i'm very happy to be associated with, however, and that was why i put Aminom's text in all of those Cosmotech threads, right near the top. i guess you could say that Space Taoism is for me *the right way to do postmodernism.* that was what i thought postmodernity was going ultimately to be: if we should be skeptical about all metanarratives, then...isn't this going to fucking blow your mind? as it turns out, i learned two things:

1) people weren't really as open-minded, or as honest, as they thought they were, since some metanarratives actually were more important than others, and
2) really what i was looking for was religion: specifically, the perennial philosophy. *there's* where you get the actual inter-being of ideas, as well as the deeper esoteric *similarity amidst differences.* in perennialism you can actually borrow and use ideas, cultivate a *genuine* regard for thoughts other than one's own, and much, much else. i just wish somebody would have fucking *told* me this, as it would have saved me a lot of fucking grief.

and now that i am what i am, i suppose i have my own unique perspectives on what is rotten in the state of Denmark today, along with the habitual tropes and memes and references that i bring up: philosophers, texts, Uncle Nick, whatever else. i am what i am, and reading and getting fucking wigged out by shit made me this way. but i realize it now, and it's why i inevitably tend to repeat myself, i think, or sort of trail off along pretty similar lines. i'm like a jukebox that plays second-rate versions of songs you like or have heard elsewhere. they've kind of familiar, and kind of interesting, sort of...

anyways. perennial philosophy > postmodern philosophy. but i had to do the deep dive through the Wild Ride to get to this point. but i think it was all worth it in the end. i'm glad i did the reading, and it is always a sincere pleasure to schizopost it up here in these threads, it genuinely is.

what justifies the use of the word space?
meh, it's more paranoid. comes from still being attached to the Fun of thinking about capital &c. attachments - in the Buddhist sense - that i have not yet let go of. and partly because there still seem to be some Mysterious Gems gleaming in the darkness of the Cosmic Canyons that lie beneath Uncle Nick's observatory. things like this. i'm fascinated by reading and learning about these ideas. sometimes they bring joy; sometimes they are a painful reminder of the suffering that is built in to human nature.

postmodernity *without compassion* is a fucking disaster. much like reading my posts. it is a *fucking shipwreck* that has, nevertheless, one possible charm: you can comb it for souvenirs of something much more interesting.

Sum 10.2 was already must-read. this stuff looks really interesting too

https://twitter.com/ekscest/status/1066669564631621639

https://twitter.com/ekscest/status/1066027064858427392

http://sumrevija.si/en/issues/