Why don't vegetarians enjoy?
I think vegetarians are starting to make me violent... Well, it's just that very few have a solid rationale for their restrictive eating habits.
This feeds a wider philosophical/psychoanalytic problem that I've been mulling over for the last two days: if we take the premise that 'enjoyment' is what we want in our (post) utilitarian societies, we are therefore condemned to think all unhappiness as a tainted nexus that needs resolution so that 'enjoyment' can flourish (everyone should enjoy everything). However, as enjoyment seems to flourish best when there is a tension between 'form' and 'chaos' one is inclined to say people need structures to limit their enjoyment so that their enjoyment can flourish.
What is a person without structure? Psychotic. A person with structure? Neurotic. A person who disavows structure? Perverse.
Without (psycho-social) structure people cannot function, there is no discourse, no 'social link'. But this would indicate that what comes before structure is chaos, a horrible metaphysical vacuum where there is no value, no purpose to living. Hence structure is actually a defence against this chaos, and enjoyment is the bit that sweetens the pot, the 'semblance' of meaning without ever being the essence of meaning. Strictly speaking, this is because the essence of meaning is de-centred, it is displaced into the chaos. So when you do become psychotic you really do get IT but at the cost of being part of a social group, a discourse, a social link.
So there seems to be a subtext here of the pervert's conservativism. That they enjoy too much in the structure, while the neurotic continually puts of the coming of the essence and, in a way, enjoys structuring more than they do structure.
Those are just some scrappy ideas for a Tuesday.
~Niveau
This feeds a wider philosophical/psychoanalytic problem that I've been mulling over for the last two days: if we take the premise that 'enjoyment' is what we want in our (post) utilitarian societies, we are therefore condemned to think all unhappiness as a tainted nexus that needs resolution so that 'enjoyment' can flourish (everyone should enjoy everything). However, as enjoyment seems to flourish best when there is a tension between 'form' and 'chaos' one is inclined to say people need structures to limit their enjoyment so that their enjoyment can flourish.
What is a person without structure? Psychotic. A person with structure? Neurotic. A person who disavows structure? Perverse.
Without (psycho-social) structure people cannot function, there is no discourse, no 'social link'. But this would indicate that what comes before structure is chaos, a horrible metaphysical vacuum where there is no value, no purpose to living. Hence structure is actually a defence against this chaos, and enjoyment is the bit that sweetens the pot, the 'semblance' of meaning without ever being the essence of meaning. Strictly speaking, this is because the essence of meaning is de-centred, it is displaced into the chaos. So when you do become psychotic you really do get IT but at the cost of being part of a social group, a discourse, a social link.
So there seems to be a subtext here of the pervert's conservativism. That they enjoy too much in the structure, while the neurotic continually puts of the coming of the essence and, in a way, enjoys structuring more than they do structure.
Those are just some scrappy ideas for a Tuesday.
~Niveau