Tag: psychology

I think the post-modern “magic is the effect ritual has on your individual psychological state and does not go beyond that” idea has something to do with atomization under capitalism, especially late capitalism… and that basically ritual and “magic” cannot function as they might in less atomized societies (note: I’m not saying I believe in the supernatural, I’m just saying that our ideas about magic are influenced by the shape of the society they come from.)

Is It Just Me Or Like… Is Human Sexuality Really… Fragile or Maliable Or Squishy or Something?

Like it’s so easy for sexual situations to feel wrong and bad and off and for even consensual sex to be upsetting and traumatic and like also it feels like our lives have effects on our sexuality that go much further and in much more extreme directions than they do on a lot of the rest of our basic drives.  Like no one needs to wear a big bird mask to feel into eating food.

It’s sort of the reverse of pop Freudianism.  Like everything isn’t about sex, sex is about everything.