/lit/ - Literature

>>11222660
>here's what i am saying: civilization makes a faustian bargain with a truly, truly Wild And Crazy process called capitalism, a thing functionally equivalent to sorcery, and the DNA of which is an oroboros loop of Eros and Thanatos.

isn't that just the world snake itself? life feeding death feeding life. what im trying to say is I think capitalism was unavoidable. I don't know how else you'd structure a society of this magnitude, or what you could organize millions of people together around that isn't either war or getting our asses in gear for space colonization because circumstances demand it.

i suppose the last illusion that has to go is there ever having been a choice. milbank said we could have walked out of the middle ages with something like a monastic capitalism that could have just been a monastery writ large, profit subordinate to religious aims. i think he really underestimates the dilutive power of large populations on faith and the reality of transcendence. very large crowds can't touch that dimension unless they're an army or coachella. which is to say, unless they're killing or fucking.