/lit/ - Literature

>>12659267
>If you don't see this as the number one reason why democracy is literally on the slaughterhouse conveyor belt I don't know what else to tell you; the most efficient democracies are the ones voting away their democratic.
having basically been making the same shitpost for about three years on these boards about Land et al, over and over again, i am happy to tell you that i am in no ways a guy with all metaphysical/political-economic ducks in a row. nobody who spends as much time thinking about Land as i do could be. i am very very confused about a lot of things. warrants mentioning.

what i find interesting about Land is exactly his very distressing questions about the incompatibility of capital and social democracy. and partly because my own sense is that when capital does win, something else comes in to fill the void and it is highly Romantic in the worst possible ways. i like romanticism but i prefer to keep it within the realm of poetry, literature, and art, not politics. and ultimately perhaps on a trajectory towards the unironically religious, which is arguably indispensable for maintaining a kind of psychic balance for individuals and for the state as a whole. i wasn't always this way.

>I wouldn't call it romanticizing, it signals the death of the romantic narrative as a whole.
i agree, in a sense, except that my own sense is that when the death of the romantic narrative seems inevitable the Furies tend to come back with a vengeance and reclaim what belongs to them, with fire and blood. intoxicating passions run wild and everybody gets their face pushed in. it was a problem for the Greeks also.

i like the romantic narrative, very very much indeed. i am 100% not interested in hating on the West, the West is based. i would like it to stay based. but we think and do and say crazy things also under the banner of romanticism, because there is - sadly - nothing perhaps ultimately more romantic than the metaphysics and poetry of war. the decline of a humanities scholarship capable of talking about the built-in Feature Not Bug aspects of the human education is a total fucking disaster. the Greeks are fighting with each other when they're not fighting the Trojans, and when they get home after the war their wives murder them and their children murder their wives. it's a glorious round of murder from one end to the other, with intermittent bouts of peace periodically slotted in between, like the Silver Age of Rome, or the post-WW2 period, or whatever else. those to my mind are the exceptions and not the general case, and we should ditch all of our utopianism and a great many of other political fantasizing ASAP. it will lead to ruination.

>>12659317
sex with hitler

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>>11998847
>"I remember it like it was yesterday"
0/10 and dropped. Be original.

>>11998854
Read book 2 of pic related.