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Hinduism is superior to Buddhism

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Land again doesn't necessarily feel the need to do a lot of Zizek's gymastics: for him the machine is enough, the machine is all positivity, it is all affirmation. it is indeed the crystallized death-wish of man rendered incarnate and very, very real. and this is what makes him who he is, he provides this incredibly powerful theory of capital and its relation to the unconscious. and i have spent nearly four years now championing the validity of this perspective on this board. it's a pretty good one!

but Land in turn has found his own nemesis in Woke Capital, which has to be the sign of cosmic laughter at work in the universe too. my own feeling is just that if Deleuze is correct about a lot of things - and i think he is - and that this includes Bergson, Nietzsche, Spinoza (and Land too) then we are perhaps coming to a place where we have to ask ourselves about the nature of this affirmation. Land has definitely provided his own unique spin on this by re-introducing Kant to the conversation, and also postulating a Right Marxism that is the eerie doppelganger of Foucault's own Left Nietzscheanism, and these are all good points.

and yet - he said, sighing - along with my own guy, Rene Girard, i have this conspicuous feeling that all these roads lead to the altar of sacrifice as a result. they may do so joyfully or negatively, but that is where they go. and i also think that Land's own go-to guy, Bataille, may also have benefited, as so many Western thinkers before him, from a brush with India. trying to explain Bataillean solar generosity to some blissed-out yogi in Benares *and expecting him to be disappointed or frightened* would seem to me to be a colossal error: that Yogi is going to say, well, *of course* the sun is giving itself up joyfully. that is precisely what it does. and moreover we already have self-decapitating gods, and we have reasons for this also. what the fuck is *your* problem? why are *you* so miserable? there are other ways of comporting yourself to Chapter Eleven of the Bhagavad Gita - Death, Destroyer of Worlds - than *misery.* misery is not the point, or at least not the *whole* point.

Bataille's critique is, of course, absolutely devastating if you are trying to die on Hegel Hill and find some secret bourgeois middle-class logic at work in history, like a good Lutheran. it absolutely works, and Deleuze blows up Lacan in just the same way. but the whole story is not exclusively that of the West.

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