/lit/ - Literature

>tfw the 5-o'clock wojakposting has begun to trickle into the Ars Cosmotechnica
the hardest thing in the world to do is to let go of Hegel (even if he comes back). especially if you think that he was the right move after Kant. Old Nick likes to say Kant is the only real revolution in philosophy that matters, but if i had a time machine i would send him back in time Looper-style to meet Young Nick and see if they could work out something more interesting than what he wound up talking about in 2018, which is that Capital Rules.

it does, there's no question. and yet here is at least one reason to *not* espouse that line: because the blowback from it leads either to Xi-style Social Credit or Postmodern Fuckery (and which produces Counter-Fuckery in turn, all of which eventually trickles down out of the Realms Celetial to those scummy pools in which ugly and misshapen bottom-feeding sea creatures like me live).

now i will absolutely argue that Land is right about teleoplexy. even the fact that NPCs today operate psychologically on a *flow-chart model* tells you something about the ongoing technologization of man, both the how and the why. the *how* is a system which *nullifies discourse,* and the *why* is because *nobody really wants to take Nick Land's Wild Ride.* nor should they. we can speak of the circuitification of man in the least ironic sense of the word possible.

the 20C is absolute trauma, at least as far as Western civilization is concerned. it has the Bomb, the Purge, the Holocaust, trench warfare, and much else. politics strikes me as being the kind of behaviour you would see from a person who had been *traumatized.* Weinstein calls it an "epidemic of cowardice," but this is too harsh. it comes from having your heart ripped out too many times if you were hoping for a political answer to the questions the butterflies in your stomach kept asking. for this there is good news and bad news: the good news is that there are no political answers to existential solutions; that's the bad news too.

in 2018 the only thing as plastic as history appears to be the future also: but i would qualify this, because i think in fact the future belongs to technologized time (or chronologized technique, that is, teleoplexy). Heidegger is right about Dasein and wrong about the motorized food industry. and Land himself may be wrong about the part played by humanity: as anon says, he has no ethics. and this is true. even Spinoza's ethics were only those of Nature, and for Land, Deus Sive Oeconomia, or Gnon. but who wants to worship a crab?

it's not so much that The Future Refused To Change (although it may be that way). it's more of a question of fatalism, i think. there is a kind of fatalism you can live with and one you can't. the one you can't is the one that turns ideological.

there is an old saying that says, if you love something, let it go, and if it was meant for you, it will return. there's a lot in that, philosophically speaking.