/lit/ - Literature

>>9791995
>There are just a lot of subtleties involved, in defining quantity and quality of life for subjects, in an area, beholden to a 'leader/ruler/keeper/changer/attempted alter for better'

sorry, i guess i didn't really address this. you're right, but those *war-machine* models are places where everybody - well, i guess in the positive forms - *talks to each other.* complex systems of organization. b/c these guys got home. the greeks always find a way.

the deal is today that as a society we just don't know where we're going anymore. and a good society, in a way, doesn't need to Go Anywhere. it just needs to be happy & prosperous. so i am taking a Big Step Back from anything that will sound like We Must or We Should. i had a lot of that shit going on in 2016. no more of that. metaphysics > politics

so i think my thing is much more psychological really. i do think nick land is right: acceleration a thing. really, you can't *fix* stuff like that. it is what it is.

what you *can* do, however, maybe, is re-address what, if that is the case, philosophy means. if, say, we want to divorce it from revolutionary praxis and maybe trend it back in the direction of a happier, healthier, sexier you. a you who can get along with others, a you who is alert to the fucking catastrophe of history, a you who can keep up with the joneses. all this stuff.

i mean in a way it's basically lacan. if anything my own continual self-sabotage can be said to proceed from trying to squeeze too many guys into one thing, when really things need to be separated a little.

i suppose i just like these *models of overcoming* these days. whatever the fuck else can be said about philosophy, cynicism sucks. everybody has to move on and find their place in this world, overcome obstacles, shit like this. it's what i'm into.

philosophy & psych are really the same things. and ideally, i would get my shit transmitted as *art* - not so much as theory. all this reading i did i did only so that somewhere, someday, somehow, a wizard could fight with a dragon. and maybe it would become a cool movie.

well that's been somewhat complicated. b/c somehow, it seemed a little cliche...but i mean hey, the conversations are always too fucking fun.