* "Inexplicable"
Desire is inexplicable. Given that we live in a complex contradictory world culture. Where there’s nearly eight billion of us destroyers of worlds running around loose. Each with an ever-changing set of desires orientations. That, and each of us under pressure to keep them quiet.
This because to keep any kind of order we have a standardized set of norms for everyone. A set that has nothing whatever to do with what the sweaty lot of us would otherwise die or kill for…at least in our dreams.
We spend our whole lives in primal want.
A mammalian state of primal heat. It is no wonder our world is an unending slaughterhouse. However there have been attempts at solutions in fiction.
Samuel Delany’s “Lawless Zones” in his novel “Triton”. The TAZ “Temporary Autonomous Zones” from Hakim Bey. The “Red Hour” from Star Trek prime. This on a world where all law is suspended at a specific time.
The very popular “Mad Max” clones. This where post end of society war lords murder, and rape to the cheers of their adoring fans. This I think is what most males in any society want. Civilization was never a good fit for men.
As for what Freedom would really look like. I mean for real. Well considering that otherwise normal folks have sexual dreams involving doorknobs small mammals, and carpentry tools I shudder to imagine.
I think most forms of personal freedom would not look much like mine. Which tends towards Hippie Be-ins of a half century ago. For males not all but most would be of the above “Mad Max” sort.
Guys just like that sort of thing. Banners wars guns rape greed power, and booze are their core desires. I base this on a long lifetime of observation. It crosses all ethnic orientational and theological lines. Guys are just guys.
An example in its most basic sense:
A I remember a news story of a regular working guy who won the lottery. He didn’t go home told no family or friends. He acted out his primal needs. He took a room at a motel. Had a hareem whores to which he gave gifts of sports cars jewels and assorted fantasy glam.
He was living his puberty sex fantasies…for the rest of his life if his wife hadn’t found him. The laws sez family gets half. He abandoned two toddler children his wife career home everything in a second once it was possible.
This is what post-industrial males would and have done when they could. For now, most have to make do with online porn and joining the Nazi party or some such. “Monsters from the id”, the unseen power of our primal wants.
So all these soul killing standardized values is all that’s keeping the lid on. Choose one. Sort of like the Cold War held back all them local ethnic genocides.
However there may still be a way out, no idea what, but it’s nice to say.
Research continues.
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