i’m familiar with his discussion of the topic from this video (and was inspired by it when writing the tweet hehe), but i haven’t got my hands on Seeing Double yet - do you have a digital copy?
this essay has gone severely underrated by me for a long time, as well as the rest of Outside Ethics. excited to finish it up this weekend and relisten.
reason 1) against articulation, void-pilled, enby-coded
reason 2) god has ordained my flesh and altering it from its natural teleology would violate its sacrosanctity
reason 3) i’m a lazy coward meow
LMAOO
look its hard out here for such low anxiety individuals such as myself, i have to feign empathy and reassure these worthless fucks so much i forget to turn it off sometimes
yea i assumed not, they're fairly rare nowadays and have to be sought out (and are very expensive)
which is all the more weird he's doing like oedipus complex shit that's completely orthogonal 😭😭😭
what an odd chap
wait was he trying to do like some variation of psychoanalysis? i don't see how that could ever be successful (or at least would be extremely challenging) without 1) heavy buy-in 2) extreme time commitment kids are likely not to have or desire 3) a long time horizon
i should look more into discussions of classical psychoanalysists and their opinions on best ages they think it would be relevant for.. seems interesting
girl who’s used to taking online quizzes made by teenagers in their basement: hey this quiz that has the better part of a century of academic psychological research backing it up feels a little different for some reason…
will you just play along? when i signed up for the fearful avoidant bpd girl i was promised compliance and its just not panning out. wonder what the return policy is
yeah i’ve read lewis and wasn’t terribly inspired, but it was a good enough presentation of the main points. haven’t gotten around to o’brien yet! thanks for the reminder :)
my succinct solution is the abolition of patriarchy, capitalism, and the state, although i imagine that’s not the answer you’re looking for and would prefer some positive prescription for a drop-in replacement for the family as an institution.
we could talk about interesting alternative kinship models and their relative merits or any other particularity, but the issue is that it’s a fundamental restructuring of childhood and its place in society, and so would involve an incredibly broad range of explication and contextual specification