Liberals have to tell each other “it’s okay to eat some ice cream,” “it’s okay to enjoy sex,” “it’s okay to take a time out,” “it’s okay not to have kids,” etc. bc the baseline mode of affluent liberalism is an ascetic denial of pleasure and a relentless scolding into perfection
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Thinking about it more, I don’t think it’s about denial of pleasure per se (because there’s also the whole happiness industry and mandate) but rather a denial of the libidinal, of the directly embodied, and bawdy, the viscerally straightforward, what you could call the soulful,
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Doing the work (because I can afford to!)
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Able to afford to be here for it
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