/lit/ - Literature

>>15669841
See Rene Girard's work on sacrifice and scapegoating (I've read only "Things Hidden Since the Foundation of Time"). See also Nietzche's discussion of ressentiment and the origins of Good and Evil (in Beyond Good and Evil). Rogue recc but I also thought Edelman's No Future was very instructive on this topic.

NOTE: This is a behaviour endemic to all human groups whatever their super-ego/structure ideological affiliation.

After those texts - for more distant/esoteric echoes of this theme see Hegel (Master/Slave dialectic but don't appropriate it from without the context of his broader system - meaning don't read it as not originating in consciousness/self-consciousness dialectic) and Deleuze (thinking of ATP's chapters 7, 11 and 12)

>>15544472
Ethics under the closest scrutiny reveals itself to be an obsession with form, advocating certain kinds of form over others. At the deepest level we value certain images over others, associating them with life for our in-group and ourselves. Evil is that which spells death for " ". The account emotion gives of itself is ethics. The account emotion gives of the world is science/philosophy.

Are there books that discuss the idea of death, most interestingly the idea of challenging the notion of natural death as something desirable? Why do we want to prolong our lives as long as possible, and expire as senile, half-rotten wrecks? I mean, the biological imperative is understood, but as rational beings shouldn't we rise above the bestial callings and see the absurdity in wanting such a pathetic end? I believe that the paradigm of "life inherently good, death inherently bad" has done mankind so much damage. So many people lead meaningless, wasteful, unfulfilled lives because in the back of their heads they believe that AT LEAST there're alive and that's something.