No.93
Living with thoughts,
evolving with thoughts,
elaborating on thoughts,
even summarizing thoughts…
I truly don't understand what people hope to gain by picking up and reading random philosophers. All they end up with are arbitrary optimized moral frameworks for action, including prescribed ways of "thinking" god/gods, including how they need to fucking behave when stay with "friends".
The world of events has nothing to do with the world of ideas - absolutely from my perspective - the two exist on entirely distinct planes. The world of ideas - e.g., the world of fortune-telling theories, the world of deep learning theories - summarizes or alludes at certain patterns within the world of events.
This made me less interested in "know thyself" stuff - "myself", but more on world, history etc. Grand disciplines. That was Ernst Juenger's position.
Mysticism has become ubiquitous, and I'm restraining my disgust for this crowd. They never dig further into what lies beneath. They're just learning, practising and spreading.
No.94
What I don't care is his:
1. anti-tech stuff
2. revolt / right-wing stuff
3. anarch stuff
I care about the way he integrates his own world. Clearly, his greatest success lies in immersing himself in that age, concretely, in military, in literature, in each of the trending issues of that era. all for the sake of transcending it.