/lit/ - Literature

>>9979808
>THESIS: is he a meme
>ANTITHESIS: or is he actually good at anything
SYNTHESIS: He's good at being a meme.

>>9389087
Trouble in Paradise

>>9101887
Yep. The origins (and evolution) of subjectivity. Those are deep rabbit holes.

>even though man thinks he is sacrificing something else, he always partly sacrifices himself.

This is huge stuff. One of the things about our post/modern sensibility lies in the effacement or disappearance of these ideas of sacrifice. Ritual sacrifice bound primitive societies together, potlatch was the symbolic *destruction* of wealth; and this is something we do not do today (or at least, not in such a direct and obvious form). This is not to make an apologia for modern societies, but perhaps to invite the question of who or what it is we become when we stop offering anything back to the gods. Even if that sacrifice was painful. Some guys to read on this topic are Baudrillard, Bataille, Graeber and Mauss. I'm not making an argument for paganism, but I do think there is something very powerful in the logic of capital accumulation (and the globalized individual who accumulates and reproduces it) that divides modern from premodern societies in powerful ways.

As you have said (and said very well!), it is not possible to sacrifice the other without sacrificing something of yourself. Hence the need for the text, to cover this up and render it politically or narratively free of the actual violence within it. At least, that's the Girardian view. There's a good book by Ruth Stein as well on the psychoanalysis of terrorism that gets into the logic of the suicide bomber as well.

There's also that segment on Odysseus and the Sirens as well, in which Odyseeus gets to have his cake and eat it too, avoiding the sacrifice altogether by having his men cover up their ears with wax. Shit like that drives Adorno nuts, since he sees in it the beginning of the cynical bourgeois mentality that evades this sacrifice by an act of cunning. He's not completely wrong about that, I think. It leads to the kind of anxiety that pic related talks about too, I think.

One thing I would want to look into as well are the degrees to which Confucian societies are founded on violence or human sacrifice and these other concepts. Those are the most ritualistic guys ever, and I do like Confucius a lot.

>>9101897
I haven't really done the best possible job of explaining them, I'll admit. Part of it is that stuff Girard talks about - mimesis, for instance - is connected with ideas I have been following in a bunch of other guys for a while. Taken by himself it's like one guy playing bass guitar. He makes more sense when read in context with the other guys who are saying the same things: Heidegger, Lacan, Zizek and so on. When you have the band together, so to speak. But hey, at least he's got the Thiel endorsement.

>>9020204
Zizek bout to get verified

>>8870280
But imagine you did get pounded by the horse and got a perforated colon, but you got treatment and survived. Every day you aren't brutally sodomized to the point of near death will be a blessing like never before.

It never made sense but now I don't feel it has to anymore.

>>8800666
Thanks, Satan

Does anyone have the video where he talks about how modern couples should just have sex with a dildo and plastic pussy and just talk.

I can't find it and am getting tired of hearing him tell the same stories over and over.

>>8717613