/lit/ - Literature

politically speaking it's not the Cure i want but a new virus. a virus that just makes things irritatingly complicated. i have all kinds of weird schizo-ramble aphorisms and one-liners about this that are starting to pile up in my notebook. like an anti-NPC Confusion Virus, something to so massively over-complicate flow charts and Real Easy Solutions such that people kind of realize that they will never, ever, touch the Real. i do this in the name of White Wizardry and not black wizardry. i don't *really* want to deprive people of *those ideologies upon which they defend.* not really. as much as i love Zizek, his notion of a communism-to-come is only a rehash of Derrida's democracy-to-come. imho, it's not going to happen, and we are going to be stuck with the Wild Ride for a long time to come. that's my own hot take.

i said in the previous thread that one thing in my imagination would be a Department of Celestial Violence, like an infinite DMV for dueling. if you want to have a duel in my Taoist/Confucian afterlife, you have to go through so many hoops and so much red tape that, unless you and the guy are both really committed to making it happen, is going to drag on forever. now, if you and the other guy both really, really need to have a swordfight, okay, things fall into your lap. but in general, short of this, everything that isn't a well and truly Existential Yes or Existential No just gets bogged down in admin forever.

in a certain philosophical sense i feel the same way about IRL political life. left and right aren't meaningful distinctions anymore, they only draw their power from being Not The Other Guy, Ever. which is all it really takes to get the party started, and begin the game of the disaffections, sad passions, Why Can't We Have Nice Things.

did you guys ever see Yojimbo? Yojimbo is a fucking all-time great film. so is For A Few Dollars More. Kurosawa Nailed It in Seven Samurai and then he Re-Nailed it in Yojimbo too. i used to have a better image than this, but this one will do for now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_1iT_GmHTE