tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30608474.post6839883539998125626..comments2024-03-09T10:17:03.382+00:00Comments on John Molyneux: History without Nature?John Molyneuxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12505576725875193235noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30608474.post-48658818010614940292013-10-17T02:18:01.444+00:002013-10-17T02:18:01.444+00:00We don't know whether hunter gathers made a di...We don't know whether hunter gathers made a distinction between procreational and recreational sex. We also don't know whether natural or social (eg. infanticide) causes limited the size of the tribe. What we do know is that the form that sexual behaviour and oppression take are always historically specific.<br /><br />There is no evidence that hunter gatherers or their modern descendents can stand outside these specific natural and social relations and arbitrarily "construct" themselves. The logic of that argument leads to the reactionary conclusion that being gay is a choice and therefore curable. Such thinking has more in common with Nietzsche than it does marxism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30608474.post-30236096098186715902013-10-16T20:31:08.849+00:002013-10-16T20:31:08.849+00:00A thought on this:
Once a tribe has enough to eat...A thought on this:<br /><br />Once a tribe has enough to eat - and presumably enough stored for possible future emergencies - then it's free to use the surplus in ways that need have nothing to do with nutrition.<br /><br />By rough analogy, one things humans have a massive surplus of is sexual appetite. Once enough of it has been used to make as many babies as can be supported, the rest is available to be 'socially constructed'...or repressed, or sublimated.<br /><br />The same could be said of creativity - most of which isn't used to solve immediate pressing problems.Kapitanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14647896216499813443noreply@blogger.com