/lit/ - Literature

>>12662295
my point is that people are going to lose their shit tribalizing, and i don't want to romanticize this tribalization any more than tribalization naturally romanticizes itself. to score points for your own team and fuck up the other guys, to hear the lamentations of the women et al are things that are naturally hard-wired into us.

it's why i am a Conan fan also, because Conan is just a naturally *gloomy* and *melancholy* barbarian. unlike most barbarians - of which he forms, remarkably, the template - he's actually not *happy* about a cycle of unending brutality and war. Howard's vision of the Primordial Hero is not that of Nietzsche's hyper-refined ubermensch, Cesare Borgia or whatever. he doesn't delight in reciprocal cycles of brutality and war, he's fucking bummed out by them. true, he has his moments - he lives, he slays, and he is content, but he's also not even remotely a *political* figure when he does this, he's out wearing a loincloth in the middle of nowhere and being a pirate.

fascism is the ideology of heroic semi-civilized barbarism, and that is why it represents an impossible threshold. i think the whole point of barbarism is ultimately the discovery of gentility, even if this is always a compromised world. Nietzsche tells us, quite convincingly, that there is no absolute difference between Culture and Nature. Spinoza does this also. a live-and-let-live sensibility is to my mind preferred for this reason, however melancholy. and for mediating this i do think there is a role to be played by Catholicism, if not Eastern nondualism. when in doubt, break glass and take drugs.

>>12662321
>What part of Capital should I start reading from to avoid all the retarded parts
i'll save you the trouble. read a very very smart guy writing a fabulous precis that will save you 800+ pages. go here. then i release you from the dread curse. be free and own libs having read what even they are not likely to have read.

>Sloterdijk is excellent so I know you're not dead inside.
t-thanks

>Point me to the compelling part of Capital.
see above.