/lit/ - Literature

>>11684390
what's interesting is spengler's perspective. you could almost make the argument that spenglerian pessimism threads the needle in this sense between heidegger and land: resisting the temptation to excess metaphysical humanism on the one side (Being) or the esoteric speculative fascination with pure technics on the other (land). unlike heidegger, spengler turns down the invitation to join the party directly and emphatically. maybe he detected in it something like a kind of massive attempt at humanizing the inhuman that would lead to disaster. and then, conversely, he might as well oppose any land-style attempts at an NRx rehabilitation of tech also: look, tech is doom, own it, stay at your post, enjoy the winter stage. any attempt to find the essential place to fix one's attention on, whether in myth or in calculus, betrays the faustian ideal.