/lit/ - Literature

>>9628956
I regard Capital as a kind of a muse. There are basically two ways of writing about it - one philosophically, the other via fictions. Somewhere along the way, or in the background, those two lines connect. If you approach the subject too metaphysically you wind up sounding like an ideologue (or just insane) and if you approach it too naively you wind up writing ideological trash.

There is a turning point where it starts to become hard to look away, esp if you are a shut-in introvert who just wants to brood on these things, and for some folk there's nothing more edgy or provocative than continental theory. So I started reading this stuff because I wanted to see how the world worked, and then how metaphysicians described the mind working. But eventually there comes a point where you can't not see it, and which manifests as a kind of a paranoia.

And paranoia is unbecoming. Personally, I think the way to deal with this stuff is through mindfulness, or through art. Or through the process of philosophical articulation and conversation (which is why /lit/ is such a great place). Kind of finding some way to make peace with the world, or situate yourself in a group or context where the voices in your head become stilled for a while or can otherwise be used productively instead of critically, because there is no end to criticism.

For myself I became interested in philosophy because I am a failed writer, and the more I fail to write the more I shitpost about philosophy. I'd like to think someday that I could complete a piece of fiction that might alleviate some of the need to see Capital everywhere, so that's what I'm working on. And then just go out anonymously into the world and be another boring and invisible slob who doesn't need to namedrop anyone in order to get through the day. To not think Capital. But sometimes it seems you have to really realize that most of the problems one has in this world are a result of one's own behavioural/psychological works. Which is what some of this stuff has taught me.