/lit/ - Literature

>>19181222
Not sure what "anti-modernity" theorists means since you could mean everyone from Deleuze to Pope Emeritus Palpatine but going to monitor this thread

>>18681261
>the universe isn't a big yurt
I choose to believe in the great yurt in the sky.

>>18590237
>>18590292
>your new slave girl that you had to accept for diplomatic reasons wants to kill you, a western traveler through central asia, at the first opportunity
>you are forced to entertain her each night with fantastical stories about the occident so she falls asleep before you do
Could be really kino

>>18565483
>>18565690
Based waifu appreciators

>>16108870
This nigga knows what's up

>>15728323

A follow up which explains why V2 failed http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/lists/nachlass/maistre.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juMl4TQzA34&t=2s

"Reason means argument, reason means a construction on
the part of rational beings of a kind that other rational beings are
able to criticise using exactly the same weapons: what man makes,
man can mar. If you want a stable foundation for society then the
most shaky foundation upon which you can place is that of unaided
human reason, because even though you may prove that one kind
of institution is good or even the best, another man cleverer than
you will disprove it tomorrow. Anything which argument puts up,
argument will pull down, and therefore nothing is less stable than
things which rely upon such so precarious a foundation as reason,
because one reason is constantly toppled by another. The only
foundation which is ultimately stable is something which cannot be
reached by destructive forces. Reasoning, analysis, pulverises. This
is an old Burkean argument, and something which Hamann would
have agreed to. Reason analyses, it takes to pieces; anything which
is taken to pieces ceases to be mysterious, becomes clear, and as a result of becoming clear sometimes falls into familiarity and thus
contempt. Therefore the only way in which you can secure a solid
basis for government, which nobody would ever be able to shake, is
by making it impervious to reason. How is this done? By founding
societies upon foundations so dark, so mysterious and so terrifying
that anyone who dares approach them will find himself immediately
subject to the most hideous and enormous penalties. The only
societies which have lasted are societies created by priests, in which
the people have been taught a series of frightening myths whereby
any questioning of the foundation of society was itself regarded as
sinful and liable to bring about punishment. The only laws which
have lasted amongst mankind are laws whose roots and sources are
not remembered. Laws whose roots and sources are remembered
are usually bad laws or at least laws which somebody wants to
change. Custom is the foundation of our life – custom and the dark
irrational sphere which nothing must be allowed to approach.Therefore authority must be blind. Once you allow people to argue
about the basis of authority, once you allow people like Locke to discuss things like contract, or things like the justification of this or
that form of government, you are done for. The only governmentswhich have persisted, and been solid, are governments which do not
permit discussion. Those are the governments which are on the
whole the most stable