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> On Behalf Of BklynMagus
> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 9:24 AM
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> Subject: [lbo-talk] Re: lefties, fullfilment
>
> Dear List:
>
> 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
>
>
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