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>>11991281
>Care to explain exactly why/how the world is itself libidinal?
read Spinoza. or Nietzsche, or D&G. even von Uexkull, i guess, if you're into biosemiotics. or Bergson, although Bergson doesn't impress me as much. the short answer is, in some sense, Deus Sive Natura. the wheel of life.
>can you feel the looooooooove tonight

Elton John: Can You Feel The Love Tonight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25QyCxVkXwQ

>yes i can elton john. i can indeed Feel The Love. and guess what, *it makes me want to kill myself now.* i can feel the love and i fucking hate The Love because *i cannot get away from it*. The Love has become captured by Capital. and so now i am going to fucking scoop out my eyeballs, tongue and brain and then light myself on fire. because i can feel the fucking love and in the long run it turns into goddamn nymphomania on Planet Meme. i'm out on love. i fucking hate love now. it's become poisoned by the commodity. Love, No Thanks
>see also Byung-Chul Han
>based Han
>aah, that's more like it
>burnout society
>pornography society
>transparency society
>all of it is death
>sweet
>thanks Byung-Chul
>i feel much better now, you nailed it my man

starting to see why Smith was the Secret Bizarro Hero of the Matrix? IRL i don't want to be Smith, obviously. but i can mos def relate to his issues.

>I didn't exactly buy it when you said it - and perhaps in coming to see the world as non-libidinal, one is able to *then* "Stop Fucking Each Other" - but that leads into some problems, because then I would ask what actually is wrong with this post >>11990084? Wouldn't stimulation of desire, convincing others to see the world as libidinal, then become a worldview that it becomes morally justified to target?

all i am asking for is *restraint,* which you would think would be easy. and once upon a time, in lands far away, it *was* if not easier, at least a little more of a cultural priority. the culture of immanence - which *is* the one in which we we live, is gigantically *anti-immunitarian* - and you can read more on this in Han, Sloterdijk, and others. it happens because capital and simulation turns everything into Planet Meme. and it makes us, among other things, highly susceptible to *viruses.*

but that's *Nature* for you. and Nature is a motherfucker. Nature fucked GWF Leibniz up and down because a Spinozistic nature-god was arguably much closer to the truth than the Monadology was. but if you're trying to make a case for this being the best of all possible worlds - God? in *my* tapeworms? perish the thought - you are going to have to *explain* nature. which was what Nietzsche wanted to do also...