Many jokes have been made about my own Scottish ancestors - maudlin, damp, and whisky-drunk on the moonlit moors - engaging in grotesque attempts to “date rape” their sheep. The English are sick.īestiality is both frowned upon & joked about. Oddly, the spelling of that term has the word “best” hidden inside it. In English, we normally call it bestiality. Zoophilia means that you have sex with animals. Does this seemingly inane fact conceal any useful information about its opposite? About our actual desires and values? Perhaps about the nature of value itself?īiophilia means that you love life. Sex even with a live chicken is not desirable. Sex with a dead chicken is not desirable. There is an informative polarity or tension between a positive social ideal and a ridiculously disgusting option. It is much easier to see when it drives us into preposterous and clearly undesirable behaviors. Addiction is harder to distinguish when it is aligned with our personal or social values. Those playfully obscene remarks from the stand-up comedian Greg Rogell point toward a truth. If he was having sex with a dead chicken then I’d say, “Wow! This guy is ADDICTED to sex.” These are hot women he was having sex with. Tiger Woods claimed to be addicted to sex. Why? Because the better your compass can orient toward the North Pole, the more useful it becomes for navigation in general.īut you are thinking about the title of this article! How could the clarification and convergence of values possibly relate to having sex with chickens? Well, consider the following attempt at comedy: To move in this direction you need more clarity (and, later, I will argue that you also need more convergence) about your desires and values. That means that our various threads of embodied meaning can interweave in ways that give us an increased sense of agency in a world that we perceive as hypersalient, synchronistic, ancestral & deeply participatory. We are not all interested in “magic,” of course, but most of us are interested in living a more magical life. It was sent in from someone in my recent course on “the occult”. ![]() Q: How do we get better at clarifying our own values?
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