Joanna wrote:
> I called the wish for a "cushy" life infantile and suggested
that maybe Nietzche had a point when he called Xtianity
a slave religion, well suited to exploited, suffering people
who did not own themselves, could not formulate personal
aims, and could see nothing better than "eternal rest."
Joanna is right. To crave a cushy life is merely to give into one's desires and be a perpetual infant, only craving to be continuously satisfied.
>From this desire arises philosophies such as Chuck0's: no
work, no moralism, all pleasure. Chuck0's saying that
he "likes violence and destruction" is a direct consequence
of the desire for continual satisfaction: as reality continues
to oppose this desire, ever more desperate attempts are
made to bring reality to heel. Finally, the rebuffed hedonist
resorts to violence and destruction to get his way. Of
course, if others, also pursuing their own paths of continual
pleasure, use violence against her, she is outraged and
condemns such barbaric practices.
Modern people are no longer slaves to Christianity, but now are slaves to their desires. In either case, they are still slaves and not masters of their destinies.
> Modern man under capitalism is not in much better shape.
Still a slave, still wishing for rest, still unable to conceive how
meeting life half-way through some sort of actual engagement
might trump the eternal tit.
But modern people can never escape the tyranny of the tit since they celebrate this tyranny as the greatest of freedoms.
Brian Dauth Queer Buddhist Resister