/lit/ - Literature

Is she /lit/-approved? I think shes cute desu

>>15697193
Just realized I should be posting a woman
>>15697221
Yes, several times.

>>14006526
>After the collapse of our civilisation there must be one of two things: either the whole of it will perish like the ancient civilizations, or it will adapt itself to a centralized world.
>It rests with us, not to break up the centralization (for it automatically goes on increasing like a snowball until the catastrophe comes), but to prepare for the future.

>>13803180
I think that reading: religious, metaphysical, and generally weird, texts helps to clear the head and make one more humble, which I think is needed in order not fall for the other meme (transhumanism). I think that it's good to keep in mind what Teresa of Avila says, namely: “It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.”

On Transhumanism: If transhumanism is the "right" thing, then, it will come step by step, and will be nothing like anyone of us is able to imagine: It will will not be a comedy nor a tragedy nor something that involves a choice. Taking all of this into account, nothing, I think, not even transhumanism will ever solve the problems that humans have to face, because we ARE these problems, all of it and them, these problems make us who we are, which is why there's nothing to solve really. Instead, what will happen, I think, is that transhumanism will create new areas with new goods and new problems. I respect transhumanists and people like Donna Haraway who say: "I'd rather be a cyborg, than a goddess": link to her manifesto: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fictionnownarrativemediaandtheoryinthe21stcentury/manifestly_haraway_----_a_cyborg_manifesto_science_technology_and_socialist-feminism_in_the_....pdf The problem,

However, I cannot avoid to wonder if, and how much of it, is selfish curiosity and a fetish for gadgets.

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