/lit/ - Literature

Phoneposters are 90% of the problem on any board. It's cumbersome to write detailed posts on the phone, but they want the dopamine release of posting and interacting with other posters, so they end up using 4chan like mindless social media or a chatroom.

Any time you see a bizarrely low effort post and think "why would someone even bother posting this," the answer is: because they're on a phone and they just wanted to post for the sake of posting.

The Being of beings is not itself a being. To speak of a being is to speak determinately.

If that's the case, then what would happen if you did mistakenly treat Being like a being? What would happen if you then tried to deduce everything else in the order of Being, all the beings we know and experience, from the pseudo-Being you have created by misidentifying Being with some particular being?

Wouldn't all the other beings of life and history, in their ownness and particularity, with all their origins and unfoldings and revelations and passings-away, then be "reduced" to the abstract, systematizing logic of the spuriously perfected pseudo-Being? What if this totalizing logic systematized the entire world, reduced all beings to an "order" of beings emanating from itself, only deriving reality from itself?

How can this process be identified with technology and the mathematization of reality, with its "purification" of all the multiplicity and spontaneity and irreducibility of the manifest life-world, its reduction of all this multiplicity and variety down to fundamentally and more "really" "the same" units and measures, just abstract quanta represented as abstract quantities?