/lit/ - Literature

>>11991238
a couple of other notes here on Barbarian Stuff.

it is to the credit of the makers of this film that Conan is *returned from the dead by his friends.* spoiler alert: Conan *dies* in this film, and is resurrected. and on a similar theme, Miyamoto Musashi - before he was Musashi of legend - was suspended from a tree for three days and watched over a wise old monk named Takuan Soho while he shook his sillies out. that is not a small episode, and you can read more of Based Soho here:

http://www.alexandrosmarinos.com/TheUnfetteredMind.pdf

the Barbarian is less desirable than the Confucian gentleman-scholar, or junzi, but the Enlightened Barbarian is mos def a positive (and arguably indispensable) step along that way. as for how this relates to the Ubermensch, we can talk about that later. my hot take on the Overman is that it is best understood as an evolutionary, even clinical, *process* and only goes in strange directions when turned into an absolute artist-visionary. Cosmotech is pro-anthropotechnics in that regard but not pro-Cesare Borgia. but of course there is a much easier and more meme-worthy way to learn about this, and it's JBP. who is basically going to become the Oprah For Men, and has more or less said everything he wants to say, imho. after that it's all just culture-war memery.

going back to Conan for a second, i don't think it's so crazy to envision some of what we are talking about here as an attempt to suss out the Riddle of Steel as teleoplexic recursion, AKA the Wild Ride. it's not about Changing Society, it's about being the right kind of barbarian, in a sense. in this case Conan's dad is sort of like Uncle Nick, and Young Conan is sort of like us.

Conan the Barbarian: The Riddle of Steel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKMG-FdCGtM

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