The great majority of people are today integrated through seduction rather than policing. They are programmed to self-police.
Porn is the method of the internalization of techno-capitalist regimes of control, it allows power to establish its control at the level of pleasure and guide individual sexual conduct, the result is a proliferation of sexualities, leading to a mass deployment of perversion.
These are indeed swole points bro. I’ll add that the substitution of the purely sexual desire (epithumia) for passion (thumos) precludes mass political subjectivity.
Insofar as the intensities of neoliberalism and the digital draw us away from others and into ourselves, the exchange of the pornographic for eros robs us of our capacity for political resistance
Neo-liberalism is depoliticizing society in general—and not least of all, by replacing eros with sexuality and pornography. It is based on epithumia. In a burnout society of isolated, self- alienated achievement-subjects, thumos is also withering away. Communal action—a we—now proves impossible.
Chief is right, this dialogue has certainly shifted into beast mode, but also, compare the erotic with the pornographic. Concealment and occlusion are crucial for the erotic encounter- the erotic works to create a distance; the pornographic puts things openly on display.
When otherness is stripped from the Other, one cannot love—one can only consume.
Narrative, how humans are meant to experience the world, takes time to develop. Identity requires privacy. Both of these things are diminished in the transparency society, a society of confession, laying-bare, and the pornographic lack of distance.
Without these mediums, there’s no buffer between an individual and the prevailing powers controlling society.
Pornography is simply another method of “profantion of the world.” It is the degradation of things vital to human flourishing into a “bare” existence.
Thought is reduced to calculation. Knowledge is denuded until it becomes mere data. Contemplation, bereft of time, collapses into consumption. Love is reduced to sex.
Because porn is a necessarily self-serving venture, it poses an existential threat to true eros by reframing sex as simply one more commodity to be put on display for comparison and consumption.
Indeed, I am making many mental "gains" here, I will add that human fulfillment lies more in the direction of faithful love and inserting oneself in the continuity of generations. Marriage and the family, the gradual separation of sex from procreation is regarded naively if we do not realize that this is what the state wants.
Covertly, the State wants to secure “Malthusian” control over reproduction and to deal with the individual directly, rather than through the mediation of couples.
Porn is actually, in practice, on the side of economic and political neoliberalism. It is too rarely noticed that sexual permissiveness has today become a kind of opiate that covertly reconciles people to the loss of other freedoms—both in relation to the state and to the workplace.
Since sexual “liberation” has social chaos as one of its inevitable sequelae, sexual liberation begets almost from the moment of its inception the need for social control.
It is a way of maintaining the regime in power by exploiting the passions of the naive, who identify with their passions as if they were their own and identify with the regime which ostensibly enables them to gratify these passions.
People who succumb to their disordered passions are then given rationalizations of the sort that clog web pages on the Internet and are thereby molded into a powerful political force by those who are most expert in manipulating the flow of imagery and rationalization.
Remember bro, your bro's are here with love and support to help you resist the pornocracy.
Thanks fellow bro's, well, I'm off to pray before doing the reps, I shall contemplate your advice, bro power ho !
Beautiful! Thank you very much, this is exactly what we need in these times. The state certainly deprives us in the most intricate ways, so we can't notice their doing. Porn desensitizes people, by destroying the dopamine receptors; then life is dull, gray, and as you say, the ability to experience Thumos vanishes, all passion dissapear. The way to freedom is in the hands of those who will succesfully free themselves first. All coomers angry, relax and sit as the grounded and free will move history in a direction you won't have nor guilt nor merit when we arrive. I personally can't accept to lose my passion, as I know any valuable thing takes sweat, blood and passion to be achieved. Coomers, break your voluntary chains, and do something courageous and great with your life. Stop living as mere obstacles in the life of greater men. You won't be remembered nor appreciated, as history and your neighbors will live in the world those greater men build.
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