/lit/ - Literature

>>11999472
the thing is anon *i can't make it easy.* it's not like i am sitting on some kind of grail-elixir and deliberately throwing up shit in your way to make things harder. and i'm definitely not trying to make a kind of a new law or ideology that makes everything Real Simple so that afterwards i can create a universe of clones of me, like the Horatio. or, put it another way: in some sense, i would like there to be a *kind* of Horatio species out there that intuitively has a sense of what is required for the Greater Good, and i know that i am not in it. i am in fact falling away further and further from it all the time...

i said in an earlier post that my approach to a lot of philosophical issues are those of a man in therapy. i *know* that i am fucked up by this stuff. i'm restless and disjointed, discontented and unhappy. i have tried all of the somas and all of the cures, i have looked into the ideologies, i have made my True Detective conspiracy maps in red string, and i am still not satisfied. there are things i do think are true, and they are worked out thoroughly by the handful of thinkers that i go to time and again.

i also think (>>11998790 and >>11998794 are really wonderful posts, and i hope anon gets more feedback on them than just me) that yes, technology is a world-historical event and a world-historical process in that way. i think *Dasein* is the default condition for how to look at human beings. it's why i don't skew ethno-nationalist and i have not changed my gender or punched any nazis recently either. the 20C tried out all of these experiments and the early 21C is going to grow fifty tiny little meme tribes. they're not going to be able to do what religion has traditionally done for human beings, and it is why Space Taoism anon is Mah Hero for positing a post-atheist phenomenology. that speaks to me on every possible level. a *skepticism about difference* is enough in that regard. i do think of tech as being a totalizing wave, in some sense, and a rather harsh and cruel taskmaster at that. and yet coming to a better sense of our relationship to it is a test of both our intelligence and our compassion and empathy as well. there is a fundamentally negentropic element to technology inasmuch as it is *efficient,* and on this Land makes his cases for Optimize for Intelligence as a sort of ethical axiom. the only problem with this for me is that a) it will fucking ruin your psyche, in one sense, because b) that's not really, or entirely, how Dasein works. and it's not how life is understood in a Taoist, Buddhist, or Confucian sense either. and i can't argue with the fundamental idea of the Vinegar Tasters.

so i'm not a political writer. i'm damage control and therapy. i think that tech screws with our minds in a sense that only the word Copernican truly does justice to. we are not, ultimately, the rock stars of planet earth. and i think an ethics to go with this is in some sense necessary.