Thursday, May 13, 2010
The Biological Machine
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Pussies. We all love pussies.
Penises. We all love penises too.
Reason? Each one of us has either one or the other, and we all love both.
And furthermore we all desire to become involved with one or the other, sexually.
So what is the problem? Why do we mutilate our children sexually? What is the point of that?
The answer, of course, is 'social:'
We mutilate our children in order to 'please our next door neighbor!' (I shit you not!)
(Gas as I wrote that: RLG. About 8 coughs. Nasal dripping. Hmm.)
I frame that explanation in the broadest possible terms: our existing social connections trump the sudden appearance of a new member within our own family. The new family member has no social standing, and therefore suffers socially (physically in this case).
What we have here is the expression of 'biological mechanicality' where the Biological Machine performs according to the rules of Biological Cause and Effect, in this case, Socially.
Thus parents can mutilate their children in the interests of social solidarity. And they do that. The result is traditional sexual mutilation over hundreds and thousands of years.
Pussies. We all love pussies.
Penises. We all love penises too.
Reason? Each one of us has either one or the other, and we all love both.
And furthermore we all desire to become involved with one or the other, sexually.
So what is the problem? Why do we mutilate our children sexually? What is the point of that?
The answer, of course, is 'social:'
We mutilate our children in order to 'please our next door neighbor!' (I shit you not!)
(Gas as I wrote that: RLG. About 8 coughs. Nasal dripping. Hmm.)
I frame that explanation in the broadest possible terms: our existing social connections trump the sudden appearance of a new member within our own family. The new family member has no social standing, and therefore suffers socially (physically in this case).
What we have here is the expression of 'biological mechanicality' where the Biological Machine performs according to the rules of Biological Cause and Effect, in this case, Socially.
Thus parents can mutilate their children in the interests of social solidarity. And they do that. The result is traditional sexual mutilation over hundreds and thousands of years.
