/lit/ - Literature

...the hardest thing to do, in the end, may be to separate the postmodern stuff *from* the politics...and it's here that i really wind up finding that i have the most feeling for JBP...because he's telling people, sort *yourself* out. clean *your* room. like this...and it makes sense...

...you can kind of go one of two ways on this, also. you can look at the mind objectively, scientifically, maybe venture into asian mysticism...or you can get existential. the current vibe is to get religious-existential to deal with what was formerly the existential, and has morphed into social justice madness...

...personally, i do not think it is possible for people to sublimate themselves properly *without a frame of reference*...and i think that one of the things the fusion of philosophy and politics in the 20C taught us was the meaning of *political psychology...*

*none* of us are immune to power...and as nietzsche observes (and JBP's own career is an indication of this), mob rule is the danger...the thing about the revolution is that it is this gnostic-eschatological event that is *never going to come to pass*...and even if it did, it would be traumatic, not emancipatory...even the chinese distance themselves from mao...and the russians went through the hellish yeltsin years recovering from the soviet union...

...but that failure drives people squirrely...and capitalism is indeed a fucking nightmare...

...marcus aurelius is perhaps nobler example to follow (commodus, tho)...but caesar is the more complete figure...there is something profoundly moving about golden eagles and the like. we *do not* want these - not really - in reality. but maybe we do need some kind of aesthetic vision, something *in our minds* that will actually *enable us* to sublimate *properly*...not so that we are *prepared* for militant politics, but perhaps precisely so that we *do not need to get involved in them*...and can simply do our own thing, and leave others the fuck alone...

...for some, such a template may be the jungian archetypes...or christ...or plato...but caesar, you know...he might work also, strange as that may sound...that was how power worked, and it wasn't purely tyrannical...perhaps we need a way of looking at power that *isn't* always based on an ever-more hysterical critique and paranoia about microaggressions (and not IRL fascism), but something that can understand it for what it is: very, very human...and from the perspective of the 6C, the 2C would have looked pretty damn good...

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>I think it's pretty extraordinary a guy like that has gotten to where he has, media wise
truly insane/god-tier levels of grit and a harvard pedigree has probably helped...check out those videos of him in the early 90s when he's just a mild-mannered dude talking about jung...

...it's the times that have changed. but there are reasons for that. things keep bubbling up from out of pandora's box...and culture adapts and twists and mutates like any other phenomenon...