/lit/ - Literature

>>11850641
reading list plz

>>11206789
>oday we grant that - traditionalist aesthetics aside - universal planetary *mobility* is a thing like no other. the universal cosmopolitan is the ideal, even if that individual truly has no walled or bordered cosmopolis in which to love.

i should actually add a caveat here. it is *one* ideal. a Which Way, Western Man seems appropriate here, as not for nothing does land find himself getting happily with moldbug. mannerbund and tradition is another endgame fantasy. it's why there is something weird about post-anathema: there are these two fantasies of The Future going on side by side: one of the 22C, and one of the 19C. i skew towards the 22C one myself, but mainly because i think the 19C one is untenable. but time will tell. there's more than a little stockholm syndrome in it.

but i thought that was worth mentioning. cosmopolitanism was the kind of fantasy enacted in the 1990s (and immortalized as the end of civilization in the matrix). but it is not tenable any more in the film than it is IRL.
>and this was another gripe i have about the end of that movie, although it is pretty perfect: the sun sets over the matrix and all of this is an illusion to be replayed ad infinitum, &c, &c.

but we are heading for something in between would be my guess. i hope it isn't the worst of both worlds but i'm not getting my hopes up.

fwiw.