Pornography & Technics & Death

HenryMu scuffling at hotmail.com
Thu Mar 9 22:28:52 CST 2000


In my opinion, pornography has actually little to do with the objectivation
of people; people are able to do that to eachother perfectly well without
porno. Porno is symbolic. It represents and exaggerates what you want most,
but can't have - it's reading a cookbook of rich foods when you're on a
diet, and broke to boot. The worst part of porno is not having that, which
having... '

As Jonathan Swift put it: "The stoical scheme of supplying our wants, by
lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes."

Keep cool, but care.

AsB4,

Mu



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