/lit/ - Literature

As Cassius Dio mentions of "mob democracies" which drift from disaster to disaster beyond anyones control that it is certainly this absurdist cocktail which saps the energies and stokes enmity of all involved - the entire governing body in this case, recruited from such screaming pits, as well as the broader polity at large who are caught as it were like a grain in a millstone being crushed between the propagandistic efforts of one faction and the next. The element or consequence of disaster is, in my opinion, simply that all whose nominal careers are established for the administration of the polity have their entire intellectual output consumed or subsumed by this process to the effect that their attention is adverted from focus upon the business of the day and, more importantly, the business of tomorrow.

The disasters, therefore, come in rapid succession and whilst anybody can examine a series of causes to predict the outcome and prevent disaster long in advance, it is far more the case - and has been for centuries - that the least intellectually able to fulfill the role of stewardship are those who occupy such desks. I mean here that absurdism is to dogmatism as ideology is to religion; that cult members who are intellectually subsumed by fantasy narratives of fiction that they enjoy proclaiming amongst themselves seem as what they are when we observe them in religious attire but seem as if they are normal persons when their chants and rituals are portrayed in a secular context; when they dress as if they were normal people. I observe them as being identical in the formation of their thoughts and the operations of their social interactions, anyway, as being not too far removed from their religious counterpart.

Indeed, in order to understand Voltaire one must scan back through time to see the mentality of absurdism when it came in the language of Theocratism before nominal Secularism: one will observe that the main constant is the proliferation of fictional narratives, once one has understood this then one can scan even further back in time and cite recent historical dramas in order clearly observe in religious and ideological dilemmas that two bands of abject lunatics are always the heart of it, one absurd and the other absurd and both, resenting logic due to their intellectual position, demand "faith" instead and so succumb in all their affairs to insanity. Byzantium is perhaps the best example of this, or, that is: the persecution of early Christians by other early Christians, these vicious cannibal feeding frenzies go on within the protected walls of a state and gradually but quite openly they eat the state from the inside out until a fragile shell remains that is empty on the inside; falling to outside enemies yet clinging bitterly to authoritarianism though now their total reach only extends as far as the nearest border and relies upon the pay of foreign mercenaries to maintain that power as no Men within the state are physically or emotionally fit to constitute a guard force- even if they were not, from abuse by their leaders, merely waiting for the opportunity to cut the throats of their officers, burn down the palaces of justice and throw the future leaders off spawn onto greased spikes. As Wu Zhi Ji Zong wrote, almost 1,900 years ago, this is the constant condition of such states who are subsumed by such things.

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Fake Influence, contd.

lol
>spaaeaking
SHHPEEAAKING

sorry reader, this draft copy was written on a telephone machine.
OP

oh, previous thread, context:
>>21919174

>>21925810
That’s precisely why people who quote him should have their skulls smashed against a tree

>>21926023
>impotent threat of violence from an ideo-religious factionalist
>(proving the hypothesis)

And that's precisely why religion and politics must be destroyed entirely before any society can progress.

>>21926045
Lol. Good luck onions boy

>>21926050
not an argument.

C'mon, you [faction you hate]ist, you, at least try to defend your dumb ass culture.

>>21926050
better question is this: why are you, as a right wing christian (probably american), the only person on the planet standing in the way of ridding the world of jihadists, pedophile priests, homosexual liberals and economic fraud ... when your entire culture is to complain about those things? (apart from the priests)

>>21926172
I’m not arguing with you, I’m insulting you. But I guess you’re too stupid to tell the difference. Well played.
>BBUT I WAS ONLY PRETENDING TO BE RETARDED

>>21926183
I’m not, that’s the thing. You see, you might mistake me for someone that turns the other cheek, but at the same time, God also said not to tolerate abject evil, either. To do so, would mean I would be complicit in their crimes, putting me on the same level as they are. And yes, I’m from the states. To be frank, I really can only stand foreigners at arms length and don’t wish the best for your kind, since you think that you stand on some kind of moral pedestal. Remember, pride comes before the fall.

>>21926187
>I’m not arguing with you, I’m insulting you.
I know, anon, I'm trying to squeeze an argument out of you for the sake of having someone actually refute the case. I'm trying to be intellectually honest.

When you said you wanted to smash my skull against a tree for pointing out the massive flaw in your brain, you became a spokesperson for every person in the future who would raise a hand against logic. And we want to know why.

>>21926200
Well my point was that you don't realize that you 'are' - like I wrote; if you really wanted to end the cult of ideological crazies who've taken over society today, you'd have to study their origins in human behavior, this would lead you to studying religious cult behavior in the past and you don't want to do this because
>god
, so you can't defeat the ideological crazies.

I don't mean to say that you're supporting those things; you hate them and i hate them, but you're not willing to do the work to actually extricate yourself 'from' them, that's the problem.

>>21926200
pssh