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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
Dude, why are you so obsessed with Christianity? I didn't even bring anything up remotely about that, as we would say on the Eastside, "You pulled your own covers homie." I agreed with your sentiments about the debased emptiness of the 2000s generation of art, music, and culture. Can't we agree on things or are you too cool for that?
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dude, coolness itself is a post christian affect, its descended from calvinism.
Baudrillard consistently reflects on contemporary culture in its negative relationship to the symbolic world of Judeo-Christian tradition, and this is a key to his significance as a post-Nietzschean thinker. Through the lens of his work, we are made to see that late-modern technological and neo-capitalistic culture is still fulfilling a theologically driven dynamic (one specifically Calvinistic in quality), only now it is doing so in a wholly negative or inverted phase, a radically nihilistic phase, in fact—but one graced nonetheless with a certain ironic joy and humor. Like Nietzsche, Baudrillard is a comic writer, for whom tragedy and horror are mercifully refracted through comic wit. Even as he writes of a total subversion of reality in simulation, and of the human in the inhuman, Baudrillard's writing is funny, provoking a last self-ironizing smile on the visage of the last man, even as his human body deconstructs into its inorganic components, and his human ideality vanishes into the "hyperreal" like the body of the Cheshire cat into its smile.
In order to characterize the negative phase of our age against the background arc of theological history, Baudrillard resorts to an inverted religious language: a language that recalls the vestiges of sacrality negatively though their disappearance and simulated replacement. Frequently employing terms like "enshrinement," "worship," "sacrilege," "excommunication," "resurrection," "ecstasy," "parousia," in a thoroughly ironic mode, Baudrillard registers the desublimation of the quest for the divine as it is displaced toward a cool, calculated, Calvinistic frenzy of innerworldly simulation. If idolatry were true worship, this contemporary culture of the realized ecstatic image, the simulacrum, would have to be recognized as the apotheosis of veneration.
so no, i cant be cool. fuck that. its too christian. its not cool. baudrillard is cool because noone thinks hes cool and he explains how coolness is a result of our christian heritage. so i cant be cool. which makes me cool. but i dont want to be. which makes me cool...
fuck christianity dude.
also, when you said: debased emptiness
why the (christian) phobia of emptiness, which is a highly venerated state of realization in buddhist metaphysics. only when i attain emptiness can i escape the samsaric cycle of coolness begatting things that are not cool and thus become cool by the very fact of their original uncoolness.
thats why i keep bringing it up. cos christianities unrecognized influence is EVERYWHERE around me. cos im in the west. and all the fucking atheists are infected with it despite almost none of them realizing it.
xtianity brah... its not empty.
you blew your own covers brah.
