/lit/ - Literature

Land also has a great many zinger lines, but this one is among his very best:
>Whenever its name has been anything but a jest, philosophy has been haunted by a subterranean question: What if knowledge were a means to deepen unknowing?

this is not a meme question! and i think there is a trace of Young Nick in crusty Old Nick still...too many answers were given by taking socialism at face-value, by presuming relations that perhaps never existed at all.
>Dead labour is far harder to control than the live stuff was, which is why the enlightenment project of interring gothic superstition was the royal road to the first truly vampiric civilization, in which death alone comes to rule.

Young Nick was one of a very rare few to truly go down into the underworld and ask what would happen once socialism collapsed, or what was buried underneath it - and capital also. Old Nick has a heart full of black and poisonous ice not because he was wrong, but because he was right, and those things still torment him, because philosophy alone is no cure for what that is. i say it is better to be tortured and romantic companions in misery rather than cynical about these things...