/lit/ - Literature

>>11691582
hey, you brought in dune. connecting sci-fi to philosophy makes everything great again. so hats off to you amigo. enjoy the reading.

and, on a personal note, philosophy *is* amazing. deleuze says somewhere that its purpose is the shaming and harming of *stupidity,* but i think there's another aspect to that also. we are all fucked-out by depression and despair. the 20C is depressing to think about. and so i think it's one of those things, to try to find the mystery and the wonder in things, to bring a little of that back into the discussion. of course, there's always a temptation for those things to degenerate into pointless mysticism or, worse, to be capitalized and preyed upon by political or economic forces. the weaponizing of imagination is...uh...not good. it leads to cynicism and to despair, sometimes to theopolitics. heidegger is one of my all-time favorite guys for this reason - Being! find a flaw! - but his story is a complicated one and excess focus on that led him down a dark path.

with land it's much the same. perhaps with deleuze also. but we're all just playing the glass bead game here. so thanks for supplying the bead, i guess. herbert is always based.

so, enjoy the reading. good luck and happy bewildering.