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The Desecration of Desire
What is desire? It’s what gives direction to our lives – on the organic and also conscious levels. If we lack purpose, our animate existence loses the sense that it is going somewhere. The consequences can be life-threatening. In personal … Continue reading →
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Tagged children and sex education, coed sex education classes, collective purposes, college and sexual expectations, condemning Wendy Shalit, countering porn addiction, crisis of motivation, crisis of purpose, cultural boundaries, cultural ideals, cultural options, cultural transgression, culture and approved desire, culture and knowable options, culture as organizing desire, culture inverted, culture setting limits, desire and identity, desire and self-direction, desire made pointless, directionlessness, disciplined freedom, fashions in feeling, feminine sensibility blunted, feminine sensibility disregarded, free society and individual purpose, freedom and self-direction, girls and suicide, goal-oriented action, history and cultural change, history and organized desire, history and story, history made meaningless, life purpose, meaningful human history, modesty and feminism, modesty and sex education, modesty and women’s liberation, modesty as a new fashion, modesty as a style, modesty as fashionable, modesty revived, modesty vs repression, modesty vs sexual hangups, motivation in culture, national ideals, normal desire, normality, normality desecrated, other-directedness, pointlessness, purpose in history, purposive lives, respect and disrespect, sex education and abuse of girls, sex education and disrespect for women, sex education as counter-erotic, sex education as desire-killing, sex education in elementary school, sex education vs romantic hopes, sexual expectations and self-protection, The Intelligibility of History by Abigail Rosenthal, uninhibitedness vs self-protection, Wendy Shalit, Wendy Shalit and ridicule, Wendy Shalit’s A Return to Modesty, Wendy Shalit’s appreciative letters, women saying no, young women and ideality
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Getting a Grip
Lately, I’ve been in a funny sort of crisis: the crisis when nothing is going wrong — and that’s what’s wrong! It’s as if the distance between my present place and its boundaries is equidistant on every side. Nothing inclines me to … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", alone in a crowd, anguish, anti-semitism, Authenticity, author and critics, bad art, book as its own last word, California, changing what you can, choreographing a life, deciphering anguish, directionlessness, divine assignments and handicaps, divine clues, explaining one's book, fashionable despair, feeling disconnected, feeling rootless, feeling ungrounded, futility, Heidegger's uncanny, honest prayer, learning from horses, life seeming pointless, living with a handicap, loss of direction, loss of grip, loss of motivation, loss of purpose, manipulativeness, Martin Heidegger, mediation methods, meditation insights, mental standstill, messages from nature, neuropathy, neuropathy treatments, nobody understands me, overcontrolling, philosophy of human existence, psychological crisis, quieting the mind, styles of life, sympathizing with one's body, taking the body seriously, the future as predictable, the future as surprising, the future as unpredictable, the weight of the world, unheimlich, unwarranted despair, unwelcome freedom, what's wrong is that nothing is wrong, worry about the world
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