/lit/ - Literature

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>Who is to blame? Those who promote the stimulation of desire, and those who allow that process to go on (myself included). Are Jews involved? Absolutely, as are members of every other group.

*the world is itself libidinal.* it is profoundly and deeply erotic. it is a Feels > Reals world. and that is why *nobody is to blame,* unless - as you have indicated - that any one group is as deeply implicated in that process as any other. as /lit/ has said:

>if everyone is Big Brother, then no one is.

that is very much the truth. a century+ of psychoanalysis should at least have taught us this much, that Prohibition Creates Desire. the more you bar, the more incite to transgression; and, conversely, Kafka's parable in "Before the Law" tells us that the opposite is equally true: to give everything, fully and completely, is to create the conditions of absolute servitude. when it comes to guilt and scapegoating, nobody holds the high card. and the urge to punish, the deep and powerful need to Purge the city, or create utopian fantasies, is what gave rise to Cosmotech and acceleration in the first place. the world is currently going down the rabbit hole of a deep and awesome need to purge itself in every sense of the word: maybe this is the Explosive Vomitus phase of the great intoxicating Dionysian revel that kicked off in full for an earlier generation in the 1960s. this, i think we can say more or less safely, is the Comedown from that.

there is quite a lot said in both D&G and Nietzsche on the subject of Intoxication, but precious little said about the *Hangover.* but that's us, gents. you can see this manifesting everywhere. there is now a multi-trillion dollar debt cloud hanging over the world. you can reasonably expect said debt cloud to hang over the future for years and years to come. it didn't get there by accident, mind you. it was conjured up out of the void by way of purest alchemical sorcery. if you are into RPGs, Cosmotech follows from a Great Age of Wizardry in many senses, and all of it was predicated on a dark and deep connection between Hegel, Marx and Freud, the effects of which were later diagnosed by Uncle Nick. the Wild Ride has been the result.

in nuce, the real issue was the attempt to create the Elixir of Youth. and this has given rise to a nympomaniacal, satyrized and satyrical society of the pharmakon. everybody wants to have it all, and so do you do. it's an age of unrealistic expectations like that. there are no brakes, no upper limits, no floors, and no rules. postmodernity doesn't mean critique, it means the whirlwind. the Sorcerer's Apprentice is a nice fable, but at least in that version the Sorcerer returns at the end. it is a deep suspicion of Cosmotech that when the Sorcerer returns IRL he does a lot more than boot Mickey in the ass and send him scrambling back to the lab. and that is, of course, to presume that the Sorcerer is in fact capable of putting the dancing brooms back in line at all.