/lit/ - Literature

>>10677738
Thats a funny way of spelling Scientific Morality

Not me, he insulted my husbando.

>>9863442
>le quirky eyebrow raising man

so this turned out to be long.

>>9825754
>if we take the Son of Heaven to be the symbol of the Will to Power of that society, then the society has abandoned such Will
i want to come back to this in a moment.

>Which is it?
has to be the cybernetic consciousness. mostly because of my own wicked undeveloped left-brain/irrational meatbag stuff. i want to know how it *feels* - how it *feels* - to think like that, to see the world disclosed in that way, made perfectly transparent and incapable of seeing itself. just that absolute utilitarian logic. it would be like being sam harris.
>i kid, i kid

because the other thing is that i'm still going to be me in that place. which would probably make me a bad fit. i think it's a complementarity thing. you pick the thing that is not quite opposite but more just complementary. no doubt i would find a way to fuck things up there or Break the Rules and wind up getting evicted from the We All Big Brother Now for thinking about poetry too much or whatever. but it would be an interesting experience.

i mean i would ideally like to do some kind of temp work for all of them, in the end. it's part of the goosebumps-inducing magic of that game: how much those quotes, that tech, the poetry of that game induces the sensation of feeling a thought. deirdre skye is also a good look also, i think.

the last time i played through i did it with the hive, and it was fun to imagine being the chairman. he's far and away the most interesting character to think about, and again, 10b people all doing *exactly the same thing* would be balletic af to see, or even just think about. gorgeous. mimesis? there's some mimesis for you. if mimesis is the deal then having everybody emulate a gigantic zero at the centre of the thing, now and forever, just has a kind of irresistible political logic to me, and it's why sheng-ji yang is such a fucking stupendously good villain, or at least as near to being a villain, to my mind, as that game has. the ritual is the ritual is the ritual and that is the reason for the ritual. so fucking interesting.

>Rather human greed and ambition are starting points.
more on this too. they are the starting points for a great deal, the juice in the tank. sublimating that into a kind of generalized eros is the secret of wanting people to come back for more, to anything; the promise of happiness. but again, with the hive: if everyone is greedy, then no one is; if everyone is ambitious, no one is. there's no guilt in the tao, or in its spess ideology exoteric habitus: there's only knowledge of the tao itself, which enlightens the more one *emulates it.*

(cont'd)

>be public intellectual
>order a photoshoot
>make the face

>>9730844
>being this mad at inoffensive public intellectuals
he is just a guy with a podcast

Consider this possibility. Imagine if everyone in your city was me, Sam Harris. Your mayor, your doctor, your entire postal service. The criminals in prisons. Even your dog, somehow, was me. I invite you to ask - would that really be such a bad thing? Imagine the possibilities of a world comprised of only a single, solitary, utilitarian mind. Just think about how smooth and well-maintained the public utilities would be, for example.
Your pizzas would show up exactly fifteen minutes after you ordered them. Your kids would get great marks in school. All I'm raising with this thoight is the possibilities of a world in which all are one. Where we think about not being Sam Harris in the same way we think about the slave trade, or FGM. This is a glorious horizon of possibilities I fail to find any flaws in.

>>9234390
mhm

>>9191784
You rang?

>>8782858
/lit/ likes him too

>inb4 harrisfag
>tfw everyone is a ____fag
>i'm okay with this

Is he the most rational man on earth?

>>8429333

Chomsky-haters BTFO!!

http://mondoweiss.net/2016/02/chomsky-and-his-critics/

>>8150367

They're absolutely fine. I love the covers, which are either minimalist or else entail a piece of art; all of which share a common theme.

I also like the paper; the thin yet heavy sort that I associate with Bibles. Nothing worse than a book with stiff/cheap paper.

Have yet to regret buying a Penguin Classic.

>>8128618

>Chomsky
>Žižek

>Giant Douche
>Turd Sandwich

The memes aside, he's irrefutable.

The End of Faith
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
The Moral Landscape
Letter to a Christian Nation
Islam and the Future of Tolerance

Is this the correct order?

Serious question - is he the most important intellectual alive today?