/lit/ - Literature

>>11937903
it's a good one. Cosmotech #4 has a bunch of excerpts from it as well as from some other books on ANW also, if don't mind wading through a lot of other stuff.

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>>11937847
>>11937898
>tfw you can't let this one go

there just has to be some forgiveness in this thing. somewhere. we have made a horribly successful cottage industry in academia now out of Hating On The West and it has gone completely out of control. absolutely fucking berserk. and it has to stop, at some point. it probably won't, but i would like it if it did.

maybe it's a recognition thing. the more that the Blue Team hates on the West, the more the Red Team is going to dig deep and find ways to love it for precisely the reasons the Blue Team hates it. and that is a recipe for absolute disaster.

but it's what Peterson has been saying now for years: the West is Great! and he's right, it really is! and whatever horrible things that have been done in the 20C in its name have nothing to do with the cosmological perspectives or the fusions of philosophy and religion, culture and art that gave rise to this incredible civilization. i just think that at some deep level this is what is being asked for in the collective unconscious - it's *thymos,* the *craving for recognition.* this was kojeve's whole point about hegel, and kojeve was an enormous influence on lacan, who basically parlayed what kojeve-hegel were saying about history into a freudian world and the unconscious, the traversal of the symbolic realm and so on. JBP is not a freudian, but he's not wrong to say that all of the hatred, bitterness and resentment that people have is just *misdirected,* and sometimes *deliberately* so: 'which is it, are you lying, or are you malevolent?'

so we're going to talk about Chinese metaphysics from here, but we can always come back to this point, as often as is necessary: we aren't doing this because we want to BTFO the West, or because by adopting a Chinese perspective somehow everything will turn out rosy. it won't. China has it own problems. and the West has *loads* of stuff that is wonderful. tons of it. not everything is the West's fault.

not everything is the West's fault.
>you're sounding pretty trigged there girardfag
>i know inner self but you get the idea right
>me? i'm just watching you make yourself look ridiculous
>tfw