/lit/ - Literature

>>11999892
here then is a paradox of my own, and it's also why i am not an Evolian either.

on the one hand, i am mightily in favor of a post-atheist phenomenology (Fuck Yeah Space Taoism). on the other, i am opposed to violence and the sacred, the streams which must not be crossed, and which converge on the *polis.* i want to believe in something much larger, a process metaphysics that encompasses the entire globe (and more than that). and yet i am also aware that a post-atheistic sensibility also produces the world of religious transgressions and the rest.

now on some deep level i don't think these things are mutually exclusive. i am in favor of religion precisely because our supposedly secular-political ideologies have become religious without acknowledging it; puritanical zeal can manifest in any form, even a college football game. conversely, shilling for a return to religion is also to invoke the return of the sacred, which would presumably be exactly the thing you would think i would be opposed to. i'm basically so completely tied in knots over this that i almost think it makes a kind of sense or finds an equilibrium of its own.

and so what i find myself winding up feeling the coziest with is a kind of anthropotechnical moral metaphysics (Cosmotechnics), a religion of practices and humanitarianism, and yet a qualified humanitarianism: Git Gud as planetary imperative. but part of Git Gud would have to be a) the sense that you will fuck up, and b) if you are Gitting Gud at just fucking up the ocean floor, or axe murder, or whatever else, then there have to be some qualifications for this.

the Great Learning is pretty cozy like this:

>The ancients who wished to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the kingdom, first ordered well their own states. Wishing to order well their states, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things.

>Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their states were rightly governed. Their states being rightly governed, the whole kingdom was made tranquil and happy.

>From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides.

there is a basically complete motion in this from the micro to the macroscale. Confucius is sort of like Augustine in this regard.