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Anonymous Mon Apr 27 06:39:24 2015 No.6462336 [Reply] [Original]

According to Kierkegaard, constantly rotating your aesthetic interests to avoid boredom will eventually lead to despair because all activities, no matter how unique or new, will eventually become boring. He compares it to crop rotation in agriculture when, over time, the nutrients in the soil run out.

>A consequence of the rotation method would be the aesthete's lack of commitment to any one thing.

Isn't it possible to commit yourself to the process of rotation itself and derive your sense of meaning from constantly improving your taste and discovering new aesthetic experiences and different perspectives to view those same experiences from?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 27 06:40:19 2015 No.6462340 Fuck off Kierkegaard you never get to be lit meme

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 27 06:57:13 2015 No.6462393 >>6462340 >implying being a lit meme is a good thing to be

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 27 07:20:36 2015 No.6462491 Welcome to fin de ciecle.

>>	the DFW foster wallace Mon Apr 27 07:39:27 2015 No.6462550 File: 497 KB, 486x554, 1425004716561.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6462393 Oh no, poor Kierkehack, you'll never be a true human meme like me!

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 27 08:03:40 2015 No.6462646 >>6462491 OP I am sorry your thread turned out like this but this was actually my serious contribution to it. I recommend you read A rebours.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 27 08:05:30 2015 No.6462651 not unless your crop is an endless rhizome >dat FW

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 27 08:06:09 2015 No.6462653 No, because that process itself will grow stale. There is no escape from the hedonic treadmill mate.

Anonymous Mon Apr 27 08:07:11 2015 No.6462659

> He compares it to crop rotation in agriculture when, over time, the nutrients in the soil run out.

That is the entire reason why you do crop rotation! You do crop rotation so that nutrients *don't* run out!

You have one season with legumes, so that the nitrogen-fixating bacteria in the nodules restore nitrogen in the soil, then you have a season with something like maize so that the maize can live off the "new" nitrogen, and then you go back to the legumes etc.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 27 08:13:00 2015 No.6462673 >>6462646 which translation

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 27 08:17:05 2015 No.6462691 >>6462673 I did not read a translation, so I wouldn't know. But as far as I know there should be a really good english one. I just don't know by whom.

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