/lit/ - Literature

>>22550980
>What author masters this vision?

>>22551011
Routine isn't foresight. I'm talking about taking risks yet winning regardless. Lincoln took risks and saw his own death, yet couldn't prevent it, because he didn't act.

Kant's repetitive action is actually a form of inaction. A sort of glitch. Hegel does the same with his dialectic. Yes they have a point in some dynamics, but one has to take risk.

>>22550980
Literally any greek tragedy.

>>22551060
Why don't they risk doing something that is outside their character? Greek characters are always doomed because they refuse to adapt.

Even the gods are fixed instead of adapting beings. It's kind of oriental of the Greeks to want to fix people to their roles, similar to Confucian thought.

Frank Herbert's Dune

>>22551083
The concept of fate was strong in Greek culture. It can't be foretold if you can change it. It's very deterministic (and therefore fake and gay)

>>22550980
There's a great scene in The Idiot where Myshkin feels his epilepsy coming on and is being stalked by someone trying to kill him but he gets to safety. It was the most memorable part of the book IMO.

>>22550980
Nietzsche, Alexis De Tocqueville, Ernst Jünger and Lewis Mumford all had superhuman levels of foresight on a societal scale. Gravity's rainbow also has themes like in OP

>>22550980
R.A. Lafferty wrote a great story on the subject, "Thus we Frustrate Charlemagne".

Alas, by the time the visions chance your minds eye with foresight tis too late to forego what fortune hath wrought