/lit/ - Literature

>>12000180
>I appreciate your responses, always giving me more to think about.
i appreciate your questions! this is exactly what i hope to find in these threads. it's certainly not all just my own schizo-rambling...there is something of chemistry in all of this.

>And if some people are genetically predisposed to being excellent, or there are families that produce extremely skilled people at certain things... and others find themselves lacking in excellence or skill. How would you deal with that situation?
unfortunately, the nature of Capital itself means that this isn't in fact, my problem. adaptation itself in the Landian mode takes care of this better than i ever could, or would need to. people are by design attracted to penthouses, luxury suites, and Gordon Ramsay's lobster ravioli. the world does not lack as it is for material incentive. what it lacks is a *reason to keep up with the Joneses,* beyond pure hedonism. and also an increasing inability of people even with the right intentions to be able to do so...

>What of any resentment they have toward the excellent and skilled, who surely could end up becoming more wealthy due to their skill, as compared to those who are lacking?
anybody can learn anything. that's the fundamental ethical meaning of the Great Learning. anybody, and everybody, can learn. everybody can practice, and everybody can improve. there is an absolute affinity here to my mind between Sloterdijk's anthropotechnics, YH's cosmotechnics, and Confucius. it's not all about wealth, either. it's about individuation. the wealth will come in time however the market decides to hand out its own mysterious rewards and problems. the market is not itself an ethical teacher, it is a blind and autistic Wizard of Oz hopped up on goofballs and with a frontal lobotomy. and Mises, like many Austrians, was badly in need of somebody dropping some MDMA into his punchbowl.

>but the weak may want to resort to violence against you.
and so, you should be able to protect yourself. but this stops long before the extermination of the weak. you always attract more with honey than with vinegar. and the ending of this film was absolutely sublime in that regard. the real magic lay in the protagonist saying, to The Beast, 'I will teach you.' and The Beast is instantly converted. he breaks down in tears. when you think about how social justice works today, it's the exact opposite: idpol demagogues *convert you from a position of fear.* the entire nature of postmodern idpol depends on *making converts out of heretics,* and *everyone is a heretic until they become an inquisitor.* it is viral Fuckery on the highest possible level, and depends on the use of the semantic bludgeons of rape and racism, which are as bad as it gets for human beings. but that is the Black Magic. there is a correspondent, and vastly superior, White Magic, and it is all there in the Chinese metaphysical view. not exclusively, mind you; but the Chinese are way cool.

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