I really liked this conversation! But I’m surprised that in the chat no one is discussing sex!
I’ve been gone for a while, and it’s nice to see so much engagement, even though it’s only about politics.
What about spirituality and sex? This seems to me the essential to be unpacked from this conversation. We have a sex expert here and all we can discuss is politics and economics? This seems to be some of the social problem he was pointing at, no?
I heard a good joke from a comedian I just started listening to who said he cured his porn addiction with conspiracy theory addiction! I think that’s a step in the right direction.
I think one thing is working in this culture and that is the “give them enough rope to hang themselves” aspect of the ‘elite’ toward the masses. It works. Get them addicted to porn and pharmaceuticals and the hamster-wheel of endless, mindless consumption and watch what they do, like The Hunger Games sort of. What does a man do with his freedom? Spend it getting others to do his bidding? Does he spend his life debating whether Jesus was a living man? Does he spend it chasing his tail? The potentials are limitless, unless we can enforce limitations, which is the purpose of government and religion, at least in theory, right?
Will to power, or will to meaning?
Can man rein in his own instinctive drives which are socially or personally damaging for the good of all? Isn’t that what spirituality is really about? If he proves he cannot, which he is daily proving now for centuries on an escalating scale, then he must be reigned over.
Sex workers’ rights? Why not. I suppose they should have the same rights as other workers. I’ve seen some porn in my day, the actors didn’t look terribly marginalized to me, but I don’t know how it works behind the curtain. When we have guests willing to share their expertise on these difficult yet necessary topics, it seems to me we often are so dumbstruck we don’t ask the right questions.
I’d like to know if being a sex-worker felt spiritually empowering to Conner, and why or why not, in his estimation. And what he thinks of the introduction of sex to increasingly younger children and in so many ways so quickly. When I was a youngster sex education consistented of an afternoon of videos about the reproductive organs and how to use menstrual products. Now they teach about anal sex, apparently. How the hell did that happen in 1 generation?!