/lit/ - Literature

>>13003946
and all was well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well, in this our manic kingdom

>>12779319
>What I'm seeing is a lot of words which say nothing.
in my opinion the Jedi are evil

>What was his insight?
postmodernism is riddled with internal contradictions that in no way render it efficacious in swaying the hearts and minds of many for hilarious and disastrous political outcomes

>How does he differentiate from post-modernism (which he seems to misunderstand)?
he recognizes that something is deeply rotten in the state of Denmark. this is obviously the case

>What are his conclusions and solutions?
i don't know, i haven't finished the book yet. personally i'm not sure if there *are* any conclusions except not to get sucked into impossible arguments with ideologues who weaponize and exploit your psychology, which is a thing as old as time. i don't personally see a problem with seeing a connection between Foucault and a horribly shitty version of Augustine, and something called the Cathedral where the Church once was.

read the book and you can get the author's opinions, ITT we talk about our own opinions. mine are pretty predictable at this point, i've been shitposting the same things on this board for years. in this book i find a kindred spirit, that's pretty much it. for whatever reason the Catholics always have the perspective on postmodernity that i like, because postmodernity - whose archetypal figure is Foucault - is a fucking death-sentence for philosophy, and makes an almost irresistable argument in favor of tyranny, and i'm not really a big fan of tyranny, i am discovering.

the Left sucks, Catholic commentators on the Left are cool, Land is fucking nightmarish, all of this stuff. we are driving off a cliff and being directed there by forces not in our control, and being told to Remain Calm and stay in our seats by well-intentioned and cynical inquisitors of a faith largely predicated on the weaponization of irony and a great many other rhetorical tactics. the long-term diagnosis is not good, but we got here through a long procession of ideas and other things which do not need to be mystifingly arcane. like fattened turkeys we are.

>tfw baudrillardian postmarxist cosmotechnical OwB lunatic schizoposting crabsalad