/lit/ - Literature

>>11990084
>Who is the enemy?

Truth, as handed down by Grand Inquisitors of any stripe. the Power/Knowledge connection that becomes The Law.
>law!
>lawwwwwwwwww

Judge Dredd: You Betrayed the Law
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh_gIxTitMM

it is the Girardian contention political ontotheology always hinges upon scapegoating and the Schmitt friend/enemy distinction. the real plot twist in this is that *there is no way off that ride that is not predicated on forgiveness.* anybody who is looking to find a place of absolute sovereignty in plunging to the bottom will only find Moar Carl Schmitt there. /lit/ also knows that one familiar arc of this place leads from ironic memory to devoted Catholic-Communist and *from there* to esoteric ultra-fascism. it does not seem at all crazy for me to say that there is probably nothing after esoteric ultra-fascism in that sense. you can absolutely crazy go nuts with Miguel Serrano, Savitri Devi, or whoever else. in terms of competing to hold the heavyweight title on esotericism i am not even remotely interested. there are some seriously crazy, seriously visionary, and seriously Inspired people out there on the internet. i've read some of them.

but for my two cents there is no reason to go any further in the direction of that than Uncle Nick himself. Landian teleoplexy has hours and hours of entertainment in it, and Optimize for Intelligence is the motto. of course, there is a fine line between genius and madness also (as much as there is between madness and insufferable shitpostingness, which is what i do. warrants mentioning.)

the Law is the proverbial sword with no handle. the Law is blood magic. we are going to see this all play out. beyond a certain horizon, there is no difference between that which can be said to be transgressive, and that which can be said to be critique. that is the paradox of the heretic, the rebel, and the outsider.

but political philosophers people we (read: me) do like - Confucius, Augustine - know that you can only govern the state with *virtue.* the Way, understood either in Eastern or in Western terms, is the real deal, and not the Law. today Gondor is being ruled by Denethor and not by Aragorn. and Denethor wasn't exactly open to handing things back, even when it was the right thing to do.