Harper Valley PTA Report

[Chris Stolz]

>first off, objectification is total (it doesn't exist for the benefit of your
>thesis statement, alone); no man enjoys the sight of spread-shots for their
>putative content, but instead, sees in them the pleasing reflection of his
>own objectification--the recognition that he is not alone in being unhappy,
>that fulfillment is denied all (especially those who could make him happy and
>give him fulfillment:  women).  This is why it is destructive.  



Really?  I thought we enjoyed spread-shots purely in order to jerk off.  I
guess Adorno and Horkheimer had other ideas, though...

chris

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. 
But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a 
nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly 
repeated in the mirrors of reason.  When we emerge, perhaps 
we will realise we have been dreaming with our eyes open, 
and that the dreams of reason are intolerable.  And then, 
perhaps, we will begin to dream once more with our eyes closed.

			-- Octavio Paz, _The Labyrinth of Solitude_