/lit/ - Literature

i know you're imagining yourself as the Ultimate Chad(tm) and the Ultimate Rebel(tm) but the truth of the matter is you're an incel who never actually experienced anything you preach, because otherwise you'd realize, as an intellectual, that all these prosaic activities are, ultimately, unfulfilling

unless you're a bugman, of course

>>20851131
you're the retard, even libidinal desire is about power in the end. i define power as transcendence, because that's what it is.

>>20850904
does Pynchon or PKD read like a /pol/ manifesto to you too?

too much 4chan. go outside

>>20850885
Everyone wants power, fool. Marx was smart because he made an objective deconstruction of capitalism before the terms deconstruct or capital even existed
>>20850894
Nietzsche is utterly redundant and useless. His criticisms of socialism, pity and altruism are the weakest points of his oeuvre.

>>20850826
>>20850831
Oh and the title given is:
>2071
or
>Twenty Seventy-One

SYNOPSIS:
Our Hero is certain Baruch Spinoza existed, and has now been set on a path to expose the oldest conspiracy known to Man. He calls this path his Prophecy.

The Hero was born in 2038 and was 18 when the Modern System began. He fit in perfectly but mentally he'd always been an outsider. In the Past World, he loved reading books, and at the end of the Past System he got into philosophy, although most texts had already long been out of print so he was forced to put his love of physical books aside and use his e-reader more. It still made him eccentric, as barely anyone cared for literature let alone philosophy in Modernity and beyond. Fast forward eight years, it was now the year 2064, late Winter, and our Hero was 25 years old, data science was his occupation, and he was good at it. So good, in fact, it was his third job already, and he was earning a lot of money. But there was something missing in his life, and he didn't know what it was. He struggled to name the specific issue as pretty much everything in his life had thus far worked out. He was agnostic and of secular, assimilated Jewish descent. After a year of contemplation he remembered Baruch Spinoza, whom he had read in his youth and whose views impacted him to a sufficient degree. He was now struck by a weird realization: he cannot find the name Baruch Spinoza anywhere, either on the Internet or in real life. This realization is weird because every other philosopher is there, in fact every other person the Hero remembers is there, except for Baruch Spinoza. He is now suffering a powerful crisis because he doesn't know whether he truly read anything by anyone carrying that name, or whether he just inaccurately remembered something, or whether it never happened at all and it was all just a figment of his imagination. This crisis was short-lived, though: he is certain Baruch Spinoza existed.

>Knowing the emptiness of data science and corporate work, he finally identified the issue following his metanoia (illumination). The System behind Modernity was itself the issue. The Hero had suffered another crisis, from which he did not recover so quickly this time. A tumultuous few months later the crucial year of his life had arrived. He had by now identified his goal: construction of a better system on the bones of the old one. He became frantic. He searched for Nietzsche, and he was there. Baruch Spinoza was not. He was again beset by metanoia, leaping from one field to the other, and the Hero was eventually grasped by an all-encompassing anamnesis one fateful spring evening: April 20th, 2066.
>The Lone Initiate is born, or what the Overseer would classify as an IPI: an Irreconcilably Problematic Individual. One who cannot be re-educated, can only be erased. And it is this knowledge that the Lone Initiate uncovered: Baruch Spinoza was one such IPI, and the Lone Initiate should watch his step very carefully from now on, or the thread of the Prophecy will be severed.
need it or keep it?

Rate this idea I have started writing a novel about. I intend to publish it under the title given and enlighten readers with it through mass printing.
It will be a philosophically-inclined depiction of something that awaits us. A Hegelian synthesis of (supra-between) 1984 and the Brave New World, it will portray a plausible worst outcome for Humanity as it graduates from the 21st century.

SETTING:
>The novel starts in 2066, which is 10 years after the Modern System was launched and culminates in 2071, 100 years after Modernity started.
>The Modern System is led by the globe-spanning Representative Congress, which consists of Representatives: the Government, made up of Elected Representatives, and the Overseer, which is the Unelected Representative.
>The Overseer is a comprehensive AI program (and most crucially, NOT a strong AI) which forms guidelines, according to the Code.
>The Code was written by the Initiated—verified experts and ancestors of the Government—who were men in power occupying places from finance through politics ending on the military, with influence on the academia and broader education, and united by only one factor.
>You can trust the Overseer because the Code was written by verified experts.
>The Modern System was launched in 2056 by the Initiated in a planned response (following the Code which dictated the Past System) to the tense situation created by the low global birth rate, which was a natural human response to the Past System, which started in 1944.

>In 2054, the Second Cold War ends and the CCP makes peace with the Capital.
>This follows a global economic crisis that precipitated with the die-off of the Baby Boomer generation, and an intense political crisis between the younger and older generations.
>The value of Initiation rose as the number of the Initiated shrunk. Eventually the Initiated became a very small group, comprising only a few hundred people (and thousands of semi-initiated aspirants) divided into two camps: the CCP and the Capital.
>The Second Cold War thus ended with a compromise: The CCP and the Capital joined powers, adapting, and rejecting, some features of the other
>Thus the Modern System begins.

>>20848973
you're looking at culture extremely superficially, please stop being such a mutt

>>20847594
>Where's the progress?
I'm here.

>>20848840
i'm not an "absolute ignoramus" just because I didn't read his letters, to his brother. why would I waste my time like that?

what i do know is that he was happiest toward the end of his life when he received several accolades and acknowledgement by the Tsar who was the son of the Tsar who mocked him to his core with that fake execution and for which he was supposedly so scarred. he was always too pussy to truly fight the power ever since then and was a pathetic moralist whose real function was simply propagandist, it was politically meaningless drivel about nothing with no consequence but reinforcement of the (more liberal than his predecessor) Tsar's regime

and again, he was not fighting against nihilism but against the Nihilists, and it was at a time that the Tsar was substantially critiqued for merely pretending to care about the lay people and really just screwing them double over once they nominally stopped being "serfs"

>>20848815
>Have you not heard about the death of the author?
have you not heard of critical theory?
this guy sums it up well:
>>20848796

>>20848730
>Someone please give me something that proves free will isn't an illusion.
it is an illusion but it's such a thin illusion that, in practical terms, and especially on an individual scale, it's not an illusion.

most important lesson for you is that your will is not genetically determined, and if you're an ubermensch it's not socially imposed either

>>20848746
i'm talking about the dostoevsky who wrote all the books

>>20848717
wow! that book looks like one big, book-sized redpill for normies lol. thanks for the rec

also, I wonder who's funding Thiel and why

i mean the question begs the answer: it's the Capital.

Thiel is a very evil, unscrupuled person.
One of the foremost sophisticated hylics, next to Henry Kissinger.

>>20819274
it's bullshit. if you copy someone, you're just another form of "reactionary." you're doomed to be a follower, in other words. and the trailblazer, just as easily as he attached to you (and used you), can just as easily detach and leave you out to the cold

this is already happening. the Capital takes no prisoners. you either adapt, or perish. welcome to the NEOMODERN moment or "sophistic globalism":
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>>20819287
>the Truth is a drag
of course a tranny would say this

>>20819280
unironically screencap my posts. sit back, watch, and LEARN. come back to me in due time, I will linger. the Truth always lingers

>>20819216
also the evil spirit is called the Demiurge and it's ultimately human-created

"numbskull" kek. good one, hylic. you have a strong mental defense mechanism but ultimately even your hylic "Self" can be deconstructed and unraveled and the perennial knowledge inside of you truly unlocked... unless you're deeply mentally ill (deeply irrational)

>>20819216
i do not care at all for new age bullshit. ultimately it's just obfuscation. its only value for me is novelty, as entertainment.

the fact that you give any of this any serious thought only shows how hylic you are, no matter how sophisticated

>>20818525
subjectively, i'm a pantheist. i "worship" the Monad insofar as I consider it True and decipherable, bestowing upon us a certain code of ethics, too

>>20818805
literally satanic kek
(i dont even believe in cuckianity)
i would formulate this more simply as the anti-philosophy of the Demiurge. on a global scale, it leads to low birth rates and societal collapse

welcome to the Present! welcome to neomodernism! a chimeric bastard child of Evola's time (modernism), post-modernism (1945-1991) and metamodernism (1991-2022)

herbs

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>>20819050
formal vs colloquial (vulgar) sense. guess you guys are all too grown-up to know about this basic distinction

>>20819039
this naive, optimistic modernism got subverted by the Capital and birthed neo-modernism, a bastard child of this naive modernism, post-modernism and metamodernism:
>>20816314

>>20819047
America doesn't need to prepare for the Russian collapse, only the EU does, the plan is called REPowerEU and it's already in motion since like March

As for China, look up into the following buzzwords:
>onshoring
>reshoring
and related ;)

>>20819032
already did quite some time ago. wbu?