/lit/ - Literature

>>12447733
if it's a good game, that's everything. and maybe this is one of those few places where we will realize that virtue-signal doesn't matter. maybe Gillette has to package its razors in puritanism because all they had before this was Eight, - No, Fuck It, Make It Nine Blades. Wokism lets them extend the brand, the same way media types everywhere are led into Rorschach traps in order to keep the spice flowing. it's odious, and pathetic, and now it shows. but in the case of the game, if the game is good, i don't really care who's rent it pays. i liked a lot of movies in the past produced by Harvey Weinstein, i don't have a no-watch rule for those either. such is our world.

>>12447748
>Is there such thing as a fully atheistic accelerationism? In all these threads I've seen tons of talk of spirituality/mysticism.
Land has pretty much the same feelings about God that Marx had. whatever spirituality and mysticism that comes in from these threads is one he would almost certainly say is so much wish-fulfilment.

the paradox of this, again, is Singapore. in theory, full atheism is how /acc works - including the tacit forms of latent morality signal that come from socialism. LKY had no need of religion to make Singapore work, but he also didn't need Land's hot takes on it either. it's a kind of puzzle for r/acc as well, since Land also wants to distinguish himself (and he does) from unironic Ethnats and Nazis. and part of it too comes back to Kant, in a way. nobody really knows what Kant's religious sensibilities were, or even if he had any. Land himself said he found reading Kant tortuous. that should tell you something.

anyways, /acc should more than gratify your desires for Max Atheism, if you are inclined to think that way. once upon a time i thought i would have been okay with that too, but reading a lot of these guys has inclined me to feel much more charitably about religion now then when i started this adventure. back then i was convinced the only thing i could be absolutely certain of was that religion sucks. now it's pretty much the only thing i actually care about anymore. this is not the right way to Into Acceleration, admittedly. your mileage too may vary.

>>12447789
this. it's not a question of Atheist or Not. it's more of how hard it is for the next guy to figure out where you put the Black Box of Mystery (or how much it's worth going to look for it). but it's always going to be in there somewhere. that's why trying to surround it with shitty or obvious traps is a bad look.

Land seems to have pretty much committed his own soul to the Bitcoin whitepaper, like Kusanagi gazing at the city. to him the BTC is vast and infinite. i kind of admire him for finding something that satisfies him so much, given that he compares his own heart to moons full of poisonous ice.

also, posting this crappy screenshot here b/c it's kind of interesting