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No. Eroticism is the closest we can get to God on earth.

>>14024156
Go to bed Bataille

"On the fourth day, at Gibraltar, the Englishman purchased a yacht, and we set sail towards new adventures with a crew of Negroes."

What did George "Brothels are the real churches" Bataille mean by this?

the only problem with porn is when you watch too much and it loses its charm

>>12001889
Bataille matters because the Accursed Share is an absolute death sentence for any kind of politically normative approach to Eros, which is always massively in excess of rational utility. Baudrillard wound up borrowing from him to write SE&D, and Land wrote a whole book on him that arguably changed him forever. messing around with Bataille is a bad idea, especially since he is in fact one of the best possible arguments against anything that attempts to Solve Romance. what you wind up with is BDSM and Foucault, the hermeneutics of infinite power.

but these aren't the 1930s anymore, and it's not Europe. Bataille is some of the strongest meme-magic you can possibly invoke, really, and yet also it's sort of like using a chemical weapon or a satellite Death Ray against an enemy combatant. Bataille fucks everybody up, for good reasons and for bad. Europe was a profoundly up-fucked place when he was writing and he truly explained why that was in ways still relevant today.

i guess my sense is just whether or not these things are still needed anymore. we've carved some enormous holes in both time and space with our imaginations and our weapons since WW2, even before that. a philosophical rehab program seems to me much more attractive than anything like an Action Plan for a Better Tomorrow. after all, Xi-style social credit will probably work...and even if it doesn't, it sets a template for what ultimately can take its place, which is the gamification of everything. to me it just makes too much sense.

there is no Cure for any of this stuff. but maybe something like a mutual beneficence society, which is just trying to make you a better version of you, whoever you are, and knowing that this is a rather tricky proposition. but i think there's something in it. it's true that controlling people's minds by way of social credit is one way, and a powerful one, of incentivizing good behaviour, and even with understandable or explicable reasons...and yet it leads to Box Life, as that anon was writing (and fucking brilliantly, at that). so i'm kind of glad, quite frankly, that i'm not at the helm of the ship of state, because Box Life sounds like exactly the kind of malaise or ennui that in the end i would probably wind up producing. even if it did lead to some completely awesome one-liners:

>Out of sheer force of will I will steer predator drones via the telekinesis enabled by high frequency trading.

>My thoughts shall become pure immanence. I will dwell alongside the numinous.

>The only pain I will feel will arise as a strange epiphenomenon of latency. A taught, unidirectional UDP connection between the present and the future: the pain arises from lost packets, from inefficiency, from the basic violence of non-reversable time.

really it is only spec-fiction that can save us (read: you) from the terrors of pseud philosophers. otherwise people like me will drone on forever. perhaps only a poet can save us.

What the fuck was his fucking problem?