/lit/ - Literature

>>12018658
he did, and brilliantly. Spengler is a Cosmotech all-star.
>so basically everything you like is Cosmotech is that it girardfag. and people you like are Cosmotech all-stars accordingly
>yeah that's pretty much it inner self
>ok just checking

Spengler matters because he wasn't *ironic* - and also, happily, because he didn't throw in with the fascists. nor, for that matter, did the obscenely based Ernst Junger, as perfect a role model for walking the line as one could ask for.

>>12003520
>On the other hand, you could believe that the essence of power is being somewhat personal (i.e. conscious/willful), and then you go through a sort of Neoplatonic rabbit-hole - which is where I believe a possible “other-side” of the discussion could go, namely, inwards, toward an understanding of the powers of the mind.

and i would very much like it to go there! i'm find with neoplatonism for this reason.

>It’s curious how Junger, after writing so much about technics, said that he as more interested in psychedelic drugs than in “the computer.”
tbqh, i don't find this curious at all, and i think Ernst Junger is the bee's knees. there was a guy who walked through fire in two world wars, and came out of it - surprise surprise - being highly critical of the technological worldview. he got along quite well with psychedelics, Eastern thought and ecology afterwards. Junger is an absolute boss, i can't find a flaw in anything that guy says.

>We already saw that the great experience of the forest is the encounter with one’s own Self, with one’s invulnerable core, with the being that sustains and feeds the individual phenomenon in time. This meeting, which aids so powerfully in both returning to health and banishing fear, is also of highest importance in a moral sense. It conducts us to that strata which underlies all social life and has been common to all since the origins. It leads to the person who forms the foundation beneath the individual level, from whom the individuations emanate. At this depth there is not merely community; there is identity. It is this that the symbol of the embrace alludes to. The I recognizes itself in the other, following the age-old wisdom, “Thou art that.” This other may be a lover, or it may be a brother, a fellow sufferer, or a defenceless neighbour. By helping in this manner, the I also benefits itself in the eternal. And with this the basic order of the universe is confirmed.

>These are facts of experience. Countless people alive today have passed the midpoint of the nihilistic process, the rock-bottom of the maelstrom. They have learned that the mechanism reveals its menacing nature all the more clearly there; man finds himself in the bowels of a great machine devised for his destruction. They have also learned firsthand that all rationalism leads to mechanism, and every mechanism to torture its logical consequence. In the nineteenth century this had not yet been realized.

Junger is a complete hero of Cosmotech. maybe not acceleration but mos def Cosmotechnics. he both owns and pwns, epically.

>The experience of acids is often described as that of perceiving the world as “alive” - to say it Platonically, as an ensouled world. I find myself wondering whether there is some possibility for that and what place would these ideas have in a future society.

we are pro-ensouled world here. and also Better Living Through Chemistry. i am quite fond of psychedelia.

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