/lit/ - Literature

>>9629221
>why should philosophy provide some kind of political action to undertake

This. This is stuff Girard talks about also, about the difference between trash literature and great literature. Great literature is great because the author has actually attained to an understanding of the circular nature of desire itself and has understood what this means to them and communicated it.

Shit-tier literature indicates that the author has some desire and so Society Should Do Something. Great literature - by some fucking miracle - resolves this conceptual bind and becomes something more than a meme.

And we are mimetic to the core...it's like waking up in a beehive but not realizing that you are a bee. Then realizing you are a bee and not freaking the fuck out. And then, and then, and then.

>Ask not what philosophy can do for you... ask whether it describes things accurately.
I'll agree with that too.