/lit/ - Literature

>spend 3 years reading philosophy
>It's all cringe
what do you do after realising it's cringe? Read poetry instead?

>>12865997
that's understandable. and you may well be correct. the fact that they are as committed now to their version of capitalism as Silicon Valley is to their version of communism is not exactly a small irony, both sides trying to outdo the other at exactly the things they are bad at (and aided, for better and for worse, by and through the technology they need for it). it's quite an interesting world we live in.

what i like about their contribution is that they disrupt the old world, which is fundamentally predicated still on the Western model *in utterly stupid ways.* Zizek is right that anti-colonialism is the new colonialism, and i don't think China is interesting because i hate on the West, i like the West and i dislike the scapegoating of everything that it is supposed to be. but we are sorely in need of a new chapter in our story. fortunately, we are going to get one...

it could be that the West simply needs to be, incredibly, a kind of underdog once again to recover its mojo. that is possible. i really hate both the piling on on the West by leftists and the idea that unless we're redpilled as fuck we are somehow enemies of it. both of these prospects are stupid to me, and i really fucking hate just about everything i see now on Twitter, the extremism everywhere, the bloated, stupid decadence of all of it. perhaps this is necessary, i don't know. sadly i don't think it is, and that we are just an unbelievably stupid and selfish species of animal. but then i am fortunately reminded that there are still some good philosophers out there who gently remind me that i too am mostly chimp also, and that i don't have to be so ideologically possessed either...

politics is the disease and not the answer. but it's taken me a while to settle on this and realize where my tiny fuckwit brain can be most productively hosted.