> Jan. 22, 2000
> by Slavoj Zizek, special to Britannica.com
<snip>
> While this solution is fantasy at its purest, the deadlock to which it
> reacts is a real one: In our postmodern, permissive, "disenchanted"
> world, unconstrained sexuality is reduced to an apathetic
> participation in collective orgies of the sort depicted in The
> Elementary Particles.
Or as Norman Mailer put it in 1968, sex without guilt is like an evening at the gymnasium.
I had no idea Slavoj thought modern life was so bleak.
Michael
__________________________________________________________________________ Michael Pollak................New York City..............mpollak at panix.com