Re: [COLLAPSE] Industrial Revolution And It's Consequences
Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2024 4:45 pm
I'd say the same about alcohol not having a healthy use - when healthy is defined as "good for you physically". There's no amount that doesn't result in harm of some kind, but pleasure seeking behaviour will always be part of us. Prohibition and other attempts to have zero tolerance to alcohol (and gambling, and porn) generally prove that people will always find a way to do this stuff, it's kind of part of our programming. Not that it's good and that we should give into it! I just mean in any society created by humans and lived in by humans, porn (+gambling, alcohol, other vices) will exist in some form.Phortuenti wrote: ↑Sat Jul 06, 2024 3:22 pmReasonable analysis, though at 38 years old, I really have come to the conclusion that there's no such thing as a healthy use of pornography that doesn't end up with fostering a degenerate culture. Your point about the breakdown of interpersonal relationships by everyone being able to hide behind a glowscreen most of the day has without a doubt contributed to a more anti-social culture in and of itself and is another significant and separate issue from how we perceive sex and intimacy.
I don't get why people elevate sex to such a degree in terms of importance, but I do get they do it, and I'm resigned to the fact. Even though to me it is just a thing you can do with someone that feels good. But I'm autistic anyway lol - this social stuff eludes me, but I try to understand it anyway.
That thread is good though I basically already didn't like euphoria just because it seems tacky and trying to appeal to something I don't have (a thrill at seeing sex stuff happen? Heterosexuality?). I'm not the demographic. I'm always erring on the side of hanlon's razor e.g it's stupidity/ignorance/trend-following rather than being a psyop to affect our younger gen. Lord knows porn and sexuality, when combined with the turbocharging influence of the internet, can propogate among the most impressionable demographic on earth just fine by itself without being intentionally pushed.
In practical terms there's not much of a big difference between viewpoints anyway though. We all agree the proliferation of porn and trivialisation or even obligation of sexuality is a big problem, especially when it's applied widely across the entire younger generation.