/lit/ - Literature

>>11888465
it's mumford talking about de tocqueville. sorry for the confusion. most of the greentext i will be posting for a while will be mumford unless otherwise specified.

and, again, updates will be quite spotty over the weekend. if the thread is still here on monday i'll have some more stuff going on.

of course, we can always discuss all things acceleration, simulation, technology in the meantime. just remember, intelligence consists in a double refusal...

>>11881820
this is the thing that peterson always misses, whenever he launches into his tirades against the french critics. he thinks that to them the world was all about, and only about, power - and, in some sense, he's right.

but he woefully mischaracterizes not only how it was that they came to these conclusions, but also how deeply they understood power's own contradictory nature. here again is that quote from baudrillard i referenced earlier. this was JB's last work and could basically stand as one of his final wills and testaments. doesn't it seem like peterson would need to do at least a brief double-glance at this passage, that this wouldn't be something he would want to reflect on? i certainly do.

the marxists did understand, sadly, even despairingly, that life after religion really was just all about power. but the most interesting of them - and this is not the case with 99% of their neomarxist disciples, the ones who are constantly airhorning him - understood that power itself wasn't the final goal, it was something to be transcended and overcome, which is no doubt a recipe for long suffering, inner struggle, and the bearing of one's own burden. things peterson himself has uniquely positioned himself to be a brilliant speaker and writer about.

kind of interesting, is all.