/lit/ - Literature

>>11867549
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perhaps hegel was completed in 1990, if not sooner. since then we learn that capital is compatible with democracy but may not require it, and what is inaugurated is a great age of technology, code and *mimesis.* scary but maybe a beautiful thing as well: coherence > deconstruction. the chinese are going to try force-CTRLing their population, and sadly i think that process is going to work. it may be xi’s great contribution, more than OBOR or whatever they’re up to in africa. we may do this in the west as well - i mean, don’t we already? jonathan haidt said it best: there has been a turn from *intention* to *impact,* and it leads to the callout society. but pretensions to universalism are always undercut by a dissenting voice from the margins, and in an age of Woke Capital you get the Universal Margin. and more recently trump, of course, and an arms-race race of permanent victimology: you’re victimized? fuck you, i’m victimized! the return from the left: that’s not real victimization, that’s fake victimization by fascists! from the right: fake news! it’s all fake news!

what it is is *bullshit.* but we have lost the distinction between reality and the illusion, as baudrillard predicted. we wind up in a place where simulacral threats are worse than actual threats. foucault noticed it also, the Enlightenment turn towards *preventative* intellectual work, the scientific interest in the psychology of the Other. we are still in that place now, and producing ever-more demented experiments in social engineering and crimethink. what are sorely needed are the *virtues*: forgiveness, patience, charity, temperament, and the rest. nietzsche espouses with the tragic virtues derived from the greeks, but the greeks were as self-destructive as anyone. the christian virtues, tho…

in a sense, land sees the same things that paul atreides sees when he looks into the golden path. but it blows his mind apart. to arrange and align humanity along the golden path is the dream of every modern sovereign, and this is accomplished in some sense under leto II, but requires a few things: first, a galaxy-spanning jihad; second, no thinking machines; and third, an immortality-granting sandworm transmogrification and rule for life. in fiction this is based. but i don’t want this IRL. hyperstition can’t really go further than a liminal place, which is where Young Nick went, until he encountered bataille in the depths of hell and was lost in the Warp 40K style. when he came out of that he found himself in China and was Old Nick, One Who Had Seen What Man Was Not Meant To See. he failed some sanity checks - we cannot blame him for this - and what he saw left an impression on him. those dark cybergothic visions are a pretty unique reading of kant, marx and deleuze.

>but there are other possibilities, you know
>like whitehead
>or leibniz
>tfw you live in the best of all possible worst possible worlds
>or the worst of all possible best worlds