...because they are pretty much all based (all--since the 1700s, Marxism included) on a metaphysical want–need distinction.
“First we needed things. Then at some point x we started wanting things. And wanting is bad, because it's twisted in a loop with what it wants. Just watch Roadrunner.”
So I'm here in La Guardia watching CNN after the greatest, greatest day with Björk in NYC. And I'm seeing this jerk (who knows who he is) reiterate that being gay is a choice.
And I'm thinking, this whole thing is based on the metaphysics of want versus need.
The fact that the fight against homophobia has to pitch desire as a need is part of the oppressive reality we still dwell in.
And by need we don't mean “super super super want.” Which is in fact what it is.
Neanderthals would have loved Coke Zero.
(Btw this is a big argument in Dark Ecology.)
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