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I see it as akin to creating a purely procreative culture around love & sex. One could imagine a society w decent reasons for this — ultimately, isn't procreation the point? Isn't this other stuff frivolous? If it comes at any cost to well-raised babies, isn't that unjustifiable?https://twitter.com/DavidSHolz/status/1167096711849943040 …
Such a society will find it near-impossible to avoid drift — love becomes unloving, sex becomes unsexy. And the proposed solutions to the misunderstood miasma of joylessness dig in further: perhaps society should arrange marriages, perhaps the problem is limited access to viagra
To suggest that under such a program love and sexuality are not only reduced, but rendered necessarily qualitatively different from what those words used to mean is a sort of anti-empirical woo. At best you'll be ridiculed, at worst labeled dangerous, an enemy of healthy babies
This is what I think has happened and is happening to "imagination." The word no longer denotes the thing we have forgotten how to do. We entertain proposals to boost "imagination" by upping funding to massive, already-well-funded bureaucracies. We chide each other for dreaming.
If the focus was on well-raised babies we would be more concerned about the future they grow up in. If anything, it seems like we're biologically predisposed towards short term thinking.
How much of the desire for pleasure comes from the experience of anguish? More than anything I worry about the atmosphere of fear and non-belief leading to escapism and decay.
This is a very Catholic take.
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