/lit/ - Literature

>>21683080
Shit take ultimately, deleuzian nietzchean vitalism is fun for all about 5 mins when you see all the incredible connections and possibilities inherent in the world - 'belief in this world' as Deleuze calls it in his last work - but quickly falls apart after the 5000th time one lets oneself dip into the primordial chaos to spit out a few impersonal singularities - again, really? the novel aesthetic bliss of connections between german woodcarving and buddhist folklore is an enchanting gratification for someone disenchanted, a godsend even, as if the lens has finally been grinded long enough for this fantastic vision, that the world truly is a beautiful, beautiful place. until it really isn't, because you see that it isn't anything 'more' than the endless repetition of absolutely contingent connections and creations, interesting and even beautiful ones for sure, and somehow more noble than simple consumerism, but it is ultimately novelty seeking at best, intoxication even, and it WILL be subject to the great exhaustion of desensitization. everyone will feel it, seeking this gratification. 3 years later you will look back at all these unique creations and they will be like sand in your mouth for all their contingency and for just a secnd the curtains will fall and you will feel the shattering knowledge of the unsatisfactoriness of their seeking, its undermining by death, and there will be a split second choice between facing it resolutely or covering it up with more intoxication and distraction, until finally you dip a bit too far into the infinite (nietzsche, holderlin, kleist...). this may seem drastic for what seems like just the innocent playfulness of non-linear connections, but it feels wonderful momentarily and later reveals its true nature, it is no permanent solution

not that OP's pessimism is in any way the correct response, but there is obviously a need towards a gratification beyond the seeking of novelties and impermanent highs - in fact thats what truth always was until modern nihilism, the Universal and the Unconditioned, there is nothing wrong with seeking the ultimate end of things and it SHOULD in fact be the only worthwhile goal and expectation for any authentic seeker (I, for one, cannot think of a more accurate definition of nihilism that such a goal does not exist)