/lit/ - Literature

>>17490415
There is no endgame.
Conceive of liberalism as the end-stage of empire. Institutions are made of libido- the institutional machine continues to run as long as cause is found for it, and enough people find it causally important enough to invest in/rely on. in other words, it has a place in the project of people who actually exist.
OK so now we're here in the >current year, we've all stopped buying books in favor of watching people on youtube yell at their cameras and laughing at each other's anonymous bathroom wall petroglyphs on this very website. The relevance of the university is less obvious to us, partly because they've been repurposed by the financial hegemony into tax shelter hedge funds which happen to teach some classes, partly because the underground oil monster we call "capital" needs consumers and drone pilots more than it needs men of letters and engineers.
But there is some agency and subjectivity left in the university, some note that it is no longer relevant, and since it's subordinate to rather than separate from the dominant culture, it sets to destroying itself. All of this is rationalization for some future complete destruction of the idea of public education, probably dismissal of the very concept of public funds going to something as irrelevant and long-term as the improvement of the personal intellect of a few specific individual citizens. There's various individual opportunists who will help that process along in exchange for respect and money.
Maybe not though. Everything changes, and no trend continues forever, but that's what we are seeing right now.

>>12762554
anyway check out the x-ray from the Fish wikipedia page.
He stuck something like 30 needles into his dick, perineum, and anus, and was known for lighting his anus on fire. He also spanked himself with a nailed paddle and was thought to have the sweet-spot IQ that made him just barely functional but otherwise technically retarded.
A lot of the serial killers and sadists/random act of violence/serial rapists are found to be incredibly stupid.