Pornography & Technics & Death

[David Morris]

I think I agree w/ Mu, for the most part.  I think the "not having" might
actually be "not allowed."  Forbidden fruit and all.  The problem at its base
is that pornography is a drug which wants more and more.  This condition being
not far from the wild bus ride, AKA the ride on the Anubis.

DM

--- HenryMu <scuffling at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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."
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