I'm excited to watch the JBP-Žižek thing. I want to be angry at myself for that but I'm just not. I want the insipid resolution of a boxing match.
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My part of this whole thread is only semi-serious. But, I've been trying to figure out why everything is so disorienting and it's just...there is too much information and too many events for us to process at the timescales they're presented.
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So the idea of a spectacle that could start AND THEN END is just absolutely seductive and exhilarating. It won't happen that way. I'll be disappointed. But the possibility is enough to seduce me.
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I see what you're saying. There is something interesting there - "recreational resolution" is the reason we read fiction, right? It's resolution within a bounded context. That only gets more and more important as resolution stops being a part of modern life, I think?
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Yes. Or, at least, I think -- this is all a very hot take. Maybe I am completely wrong and nothing has changed at all. That our level of substitutable awful always existed and defines social struggle at all points in history identically. But, I think ours *is* very different.
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