/lit/ - Literature

>>13000796
>Where can I find stuff that speaks specifically on this?
besides his devilishly good looks, René Noël Théophile Girard was also known for his contributions to philosophy in the 20C. check him out sometime. he has some pretty interesting stuff to say about the peculiar nature of sacrifice and the role of religion in political life. and vice-versa.

>A chilling comparison.
seriously tho right? i was thinking about that all day today. why it is that we have the thirst for blood and revenge, how it all works. and i really don't know. but it seems like a phenomenon worth considering.

>>13000802
'seizing the means of representation' would be another way of looking at things. and not just as media cartels, but also, of course, in the mind.
>god you are just going to be insufferable with this Buddhist shit aren't you
>you betcha inner self

in his conversations with Justin Murphy Land was highly skeptical of JM's attachment to the word 'emancipation,' and if you read Land's stuff you understand why this is. he's not all the way wrong either: he recognizes as presciently as anyone that there is a deeply inscribed superstitious madness that can foment in the heart of deconstruction if it just goes completetely insane, and he chose as early as those later essays in Fanged Noumena to be against transcendental miserabilism, as much as Nietzsche opted for the tragic ethos of Dionysus against the Crucified. but here again i guess i find myself in this weird place: well, if we want intelligence, then...right? of course computers are where it's at and financial districts don't need to be hated purely because they are financial districts, since for Land the money means nothing if not tech, the tech algorithms, and those algorithms ultimately neural nets and things we genuinely *do* want. but i think i am skeptical about the need for such a powerful degree of antihumanism in his thinking. but who knows, maybe he's just seen things he can't unsee (and that most of us never really see at all in the way that he does). or maybe i've just drank too much of the koolaid.
>you have drank too much of the koolaid. you bathed in it. you gave yourself a fucking high colonic with it
>yes, this is true

so i think there needs to be some balance. absent this it may be like the 19C: neo-feudal industrial cyber-baronies occasionally marked by revolutionary unrest for a century, and perhaps some calamitous war later on. who knows. either way it's not going to be pretty. although the vidya will probably be way cool.
>however much neo-feudal industrial cyber-baronies would be a fucking dope setting for a novel tho

What do christfags think of René Girard's views on christianity ?