/lit/ - Literature

>>11991855
there's a stupid and confusing typo in there too, which tells me that my Mind Is Going at this point and i should probably pause for a bit. but i wanted to leave the thread with another thought in this regard: it's about that slash, the choice.

in Confucianism, there is one interesting thing about *the nature of decision-making* that is not there in the West. namely, it is that to discriminate between multiple possibilities is itself a decision-making process itself. there is nothing in Confucius about the tragic and fatal choice, the brutal position of having your back to the wall and consequently the rage and existential dread that comes with it. if you have found yourself in this position, you are already fucked. true, you can un-fuck yourself in some way, and sometimes this is unavoidable. but it is also an ultimately sub-optimal place to be in.

and everything we learn from Lacan about this tells us that this is the same kind of thing: *decisions,* words, high-standed statements, all of the rest, is all so much Oedipal spiral. you always come back to the beginning, one way or the other. Zizek says that everything he ever needed to learn about ideology he learned from Stalin, who was the absolute king of putting you in positions where every answer you had to give to the cynical/impossible situation was wrong. it's not so different for us today, in a world of automation, always-already there questions (YH's 'tertiary protention') and other things. we have learned how to bait, seduce and simulate each other very well, but a whirlwind of bait, mimesis and reciprocal process doesn't necessarily lead to enlightenment, it only leads to a shark-tank full of blood and anarchy. and there is no ready fucking cure for that, because Planet Meme is like a zoo without zookeepers, imho. if there is going to be any change to the process it will have to come from within, as the Buddha says (and not just him).

anyways. sphinxes and sphinx games. questions and questions, Plans Within Plans, and so on. questions and then more questions. i have to get a move on today with some other stuff anyways. talk to you guys again soon, always a slice.

2001: My Mind is Going, Dave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-La91wr8xw