/lit/ - Literature

>>11339395
>hey /lit/ i wanna kill my bullies, how do i do it if im a fag who cant into ar15s

pay off scientists in some convoluted system where everyone believes your products aren't harmful and then have these so called bullies get hooked. When they find out your shit was killing them, you just shrug and move on and then laugh about it later when you're having a drink on your yacht with your family and employees. Later you may mention something to a mistress or competitor about it all being much to much, but, honestly, if you are going to go there, like really go there, this is really The only way to go to rid you of your bullies in true patrician style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC2ZY2loo74

>>11260961
>i'd prefer to divest myself of those scales and be kind to humans,
to govern through virtue still requires the maintain of the states legitimacy. scales are necessary merely as a method for making mysteries. It is the green eye blinking on a three dollar bill or those in service not to "humanity" but values. Just something I've picked up on from a thread about Joseph de Maistre and your aesthetics>politics. as humans are politics and all war is aesthetic, an omniist never carries out a false flag without deeply believing in the double-cross. Most attribute to this being an egotism that is unfounded except in the mass expression of group egos. Parodying the mass ego and using subterfuge as a personal style is how the omniist births an infinite adjacent possibility - which only capitalism is prepared to face. Desire then becomes what? captured by a Capitalist computer thingy?
>capitalism becomes the infinite within the beast or it becomes voided by the omniist who desires the consumption of the infinite inside itself, not material consumption.

>explain

global market trends, a tendency for futurism to promote a backlash of primitivism that favours cultural heritage and material wealth, and a rise in disposable income amongst certain proponents of alternative medicine. Sort of an underground business theory of mine that I see some people of high intelligence using to their advantage, such is the case of many doctors, lawyers, and ex-police and military. therapeutic for those encountering a manufactured baby for the first time.

>>11109511
Demand your fair share and then turn to other worth while pursuits of equality in support of the society, helping one, (hopefully two), at a time to further the betterment of society by sharing your individually unique and highly superior genes.

>>11101043
It is a CND value that I hold that doesn't support the death penalty but supports mass suicide whereby happiness-utility is increased to a max and then severed in as equally as can be distributed ten minute misconducts without the team - tribe - incurring the loss of a player. We support the human sacrifice to Capital in as equal a measure as should be, and I hope to spread my message beyond our boarders.

>>11028142
>tfw when you encounter someone on /lit/ who has done the reading and knows what they are saying
>feels good man

your first passage explained 100% perfectly why i have issues with derrida, because he was in so many ways the philosopher of the 90s and 2000s and this kind of thing, which is an untenable system based on this kind of enlightened martyrdom and self-victimization. so i really value how you expressed this because i agree with you completely.

i guess the question that i would have here would be perhaps contrarian: i actually do think that some concept of the spiritual or even religious is required here in this regard, even with all of this in mind. but in general i think you are absolutely spot-on in highlighting the salience of this, that so much is a blowback from WWII and our collective inability to process this. even if derrida did had some important things to say about this once, i am with you that badiou is more relevant today. i just have issues with derrida but they aren't important.

>Whole project of the left turned into moralizing and passivity (dont hold any views that are poblematic!) so then we get something that is radically opposite.

i agree with this completely as well. i think it's why there is so much uproar going on right now, in fact - people are basically completely bought into now into the neoliberal paradigm/Enjoy!, whether willingly or unwillingly, and it is has become the crystal palace that sloterdijk writes about. it won't work but people are horrified by having no alternative. so it's like doubling down on heroin because you are afraid the world is running out of heroin or that your heroin will be taken away from you, in a way. but it's the heroin that is bad for you, not the person taking it from you or the world that makes you take heroin. it's the heroin itself, the vehicle of faux-jouissance. but when the world is dark and ugly ppl think that way.

>>11028146
well, that's good to know. and you know, i was thinking to myself, i should have said thinking *ethically* and not politically, because in part i think that's the distinction to make. real political thinking may have to be a thing called ethics, that is, something to be done really slowly and not impulsively - if at all. of course, this may seem counter-intuitive but i suspect you know what i mean.

>Anti-thesis occurs when thesis is lacking something, but of course anti-thesis is no better than thesis, to philosophize is to overcome both.

i agree. maybe this is why i have begun to detach myself from hoping for intellectual solutions to political questions in this way. partly because i think on the one hand that if ethics > politics then really we should only expect the slowest and most gradual form of change. but also partly because i ultimately feel that problems arise from human passions that become political when they are misunderstood rather than understood.

it's like what plato says about thymos, 'craving for recognition.'

>>10992559
Power, revenge, being.

>>10885728
>we're already getting as much soft communism in the world now, but it's debatable also whether the accelerating hard capitalism land advocates that is the alternative isn't just hyper-protestant miserabilism cranked up to eleven. but it seems like a vain project to try and make nick land happy.

>there's got to be a better way. and a better object for philosophy too.

there is, and it comes along in response to noticeable change. the soft capitalism incrementally changes things so that all are placated and don't have to engage. The conflict that is required can only be self-induced. just as we don't see the deterioration of the environment by its actual generation to generation changes and therefore don't worry that what we live in is a wasteland, we will not figure our way out of the crib while it's being built into a prison.

No one wants to be Land though.

I think a lot about selling this experience to people through festival culture. I'd co-opt a few decent artists' ideas about how to live the good life and then rent some land and give people the opportunity to let these passions pound the earth like a flat rock in a still pond, let the waves of a new culture extend outwards into an era. Then I'd capitalise on it after a few years, put tickets up to two-three hundred dollars, sell water for $15, get music industry people to pay me to get their artists a stage, make millions off the advertising and merch. It'd be great to sell people charactertures of their beloved icons that explicitly were about dropping out, and turning on. Wonder why people don't start movements anymore?

>>10464936
>A human body is ravenousness incarnate; it hath no hawk’s bill, but a nose that adds pleasure to devouring; no sharp talon, but hands that will scour the earth for objects to wield to access what it pleases; no roughness of teeth, but the skills of cookery to make eating no chore; and such a strength of stomach and heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert 50 hog dogs in one sitting into shit.

>But if you will contend that you were born to an inclination to such food as you have now a mind to eat, do you then yourself kill what you would eat.

Is it in season? Is it young and so still tender?

>But do it yourself, without the help of a chopping-knife, mallet or axe, as wolves, bears, and lions do, who kill and eat at once. Rend an ox with thy teeth, worry a hog with thy mouth, tear a lamb or a hare in pieces, and fall on and eat it alive as they do.

I don't like the texture of struggling prey.

>But if thou had rather stay until what thou eat is to become dead, and if thou art loath to force a soul out of its body, why then dost thou against nature eat an animate thing? There is nobody that is willing to eat even a lifeless and a dead thing even as it is; so they boil it, and roast it, and alter it by fire and medicines, as it were, changing and quenching the slaughtered gore with thousands of sweet sauces, that the palate being thereby deceived may admit of such uncouth fare.”

Tell me again about these sweet sauces.

>Was Plutarch right? Do you guys eat meat? What do you guys think of veganism and vegetarianism? Any books on the subject?

There is much fascinating history on eating as well as speculation on why we cook and why even we eat meat.

Did we develop in the manner that we did because some apes prospered and adapted better than others from doing so and this lead to the development of a large brain? It's hard to deny the benefits of meat eating, but it's also hard to deny that veganism has a strange history as well. The security of agrarian societies and the need to organise and plan could be shown to have led to healthier societies, but I'd be surprised if you could produce another human species with a vegetarian diet. Along with some robustly sourced proteins, it seems like a good diet to feed those at the back of the train.