From: BabblePreacher-AT-aol.com
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:47:07 EDT
Subject: Re: [postanarchism] re: Scott "The Movement of Schiz-Flux" (Anarchy Magazine)


In a message dated 6/23/2003 2:54:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
ringfingers-AT-yahoo.com writes:

> Phil
> - what exactly is your issue with discussion of orgies
> and free sexuality? Why for you, is it "cult
> behavior"? 

I do not have any "issues" with orgies and free sexuality (believe me), but 
what prompted the cult tag (that may have been a mistake, though I don't think 
so) was the line "I search entrance to his trust and find closure," and the 
all-or-nothing method of delivery, the reterritorialization of desire within 
such polix nonsense as "parameters of negotiated trust" or "individuals are being 
born again." 

   Why isn't getting married and having 2.5> 
> kids and a white picket fence "cult behavior"? 

Because it is not. Obviously not. But that doesn't make it better. Personally 
I find this the worse of the two situations (the one more in need of reform - 
or abolition). This is much more of a perpetuated nightmare. Sister to the 
barrage of received ideas. But it has nothing of the cult about it, because 1) 
it is so prolific, 2) it is presumed behavior, 3) it lacks a form-giving 
center. It is pure repetition. Besides, my "issues" were with the adoption of the 
trendy philo-speak as a means of elevating the real situation (mass sexual 
promiscuity) to the level of a transcendent activity. Sexual pleasure has more in 
common with the build-up and release of tension that baffled Freud, than with 
schizo-flux or materialist psychiatry or "being born again," and any attempt to 
try and raise it to the level of an absolute is even more demeaning than its 
repression.

What is > normal? What is not? Why?

I don't know if I should mess with this one. Heh heh. (Although, before we 
can even discuss this last question, we would need to play nominalistic and ask 
what it is that establishes the normal? majority behavior? law? textbooks? the 
media?)

have a fine afternoon,
       -phil.


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