{"id":7832,"date":"2015-01-22T22:23:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T03:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=7832"},"modified":"2021-01-23T09:44:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T14:44:36","slug":"sex-and-liberation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=7832","title":{"rendered":"Sex and Liberation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nIt is no secret now that lust is also a form of addiction. My point here is that the current regime knows this and exploits this situation to its own advantage. In other words, sexual freedom is really a form of social control\u2026.The truth, the one propagated by the regime through advertising, sex education, Hollywood films, and the university system — the truth, in other words, for general consumption — is that sexual liberation is freedom. The esoteric truth, the one that informs the operations manual of the regime — in other words the people who benefit from \u201cliberty\u201d — is the exact opposite, namely, that sexual liberation is a form of control, a way of maintaining the regime in power by exploiting the passions of the na\u00efve, who identify with their passions as if they were their own and identify with the regime which ostensibly enables them to gratify these passions. ~ E Michael Jones<\/strong>, Libido Dominandi<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

These began with divine ideas by way of contemplation of the heavens with the bodily eyes. Thus in their science of augury the Romans used the verb contemplari<\/em> for observing the parts of the sky whence the auguries came or the auspices were taken. ~ Giambattista Vico<\/strong>, The New Science<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Intro<\/h2>\n

During my youth, I used to study the writings of Herbert Marcuse, sometimes called the \u201cJulius Evola of the Left.\u201d There is some justice in that appellation since their interests overlapped — fascism, sexuality, the drug culture, hippies, etc. — and they both opposed the modern world, particularly in the dual pincers of American capitalism and Soviet communism.<\/p>\n

In Reason and Revolution<\/em>, his study of Hegel, Marcuse opposed the monopoly of rationalism by positive science. Thus philosophy or metaphysics has a claim on truth and rationality. That has stuck with me, particularly because my fields of study were maths, physics, and chemistry.<\/p>\n

In One Dimensional Man<\/em>, he documented the deleterious effects of consumer society on human fulfillment. I was especially interested in Eros and Civilization<\/em>. Marcuse combined the personal and the social in a powerful way. That technique provides a lesson for the development of a historiography of the right. For example, we\u2019ve related Plato\u2019s political systems to the rule of men dominated by the different soul centers.<\/p>\n

This brief essay continues that project, albeit in a sketched-out form. For the reconstruction of the prehistory of the West, I am relying on Giambattisa Vico<\/strong>\u2019s New Science<\/em> as well as Fustel de Coulange<\/strong>\u2019s Ancient City<\/em>, as well as the studies of myths by J J Bachofen<\/strong>, Julius Evola<\/strong> and Julian Jaynes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Eros and Civilization<\/h2>\n

At that time, it was possible to be a materialist atheist using Darwin, Freud and Marx as the foundation. Life, mind, and society could be explained without recourse to anything transcendent. Marcuse combined Freud and Marx very effectively. Marx had always claimed that consciousness was formed by the material conditions of life, without explaining how. Marcuse took the major themes of Freudian psychology to show how social structures become reflected in human psychology.<\/p>\n

Thus Freud\u2019s major themes of sexuality and repression could be explained in the individual by the systems of production and consumption. Since Freud\u2019s conceptions are ultimately conservative, Marcuse had to rework his ideas quite a bit.<\/p>\n

As is common with the left, Marcuse felt that men are born good but become repressed by society. Unlike Freud who contended that the sexual instinct (eros) had to be sublimated for civilization to develop, Marcuse claimed that unleashed sexuality is liberating and constructive. For Freud, the superego, by absorbing cultural norms, was able to repress sexuality. However, for Marcuse, the superego instead absorbed unjust social structures. This \u201csurplus repression\u201d was beyond anything really necessary.<\/p>\n

The Freudian system apes the traditional view of man. The ego is the self, or rational center of consciousness. The superego is what is transcendent to the ego and the id represents desires and instincts. Of course, for Freud there is no real transcendence, hence it can be explained only by material terms; that provides the opening for Marcuse.<\/p>\n

So if the superego is merely the result of alienated consciousness, there is no reason at all to suppress the instincts. The assumption must be that they are good in themselves, which really means that Darwinian random evolution somehow produces the good.<\/p>\n

Freud said that we go through three stages: oral, anal, genital. In maturity, our sexuality is centered on the genital phase. Marcuse regarded that as a form of repression. Hence, in his utopian vision of human centered production based on technology, the fully developed human would become polymorphous perverse, like a child. His whole body would be sexually charged, without the repression of the oral and anal stage.<\/p>\n

That hardly seems like a manly or worthwhile goal, but there is little doubt that such an idea resonates in contemporary culture. This is evident from the porno film Deep Throat<\/em> in the 1970s which mainstreamed fellatio to more recent obsession with the ass and anal sex. A recent episode of the \u201cedgy\u201d HBO series Girls<\/em> featured a gratuitous scene of anilingus.<\/p>\n

This is an inversion of true Eros which is a drive to God and the transcendent. Biological sex, then, is a mere distortion and materialization of that drive.<\/p>\n

Fundamental Principles<\/h2>\n

Giambattista Vico identifies three customs of all nations:<\/p>\n