ChristopherColumbus
Master Don Juan
I just noticed a new app developed, which can report any incidence of sexual abuse in real time. A good thing no doubt, yet with larger ramifications - what exactly are the lines to be drawn between sexual abuse, sexual discrimination, sexual harassment, flirtation, and... approach?
A previous generation largely had a codex of sorts to draw on, a set of unwritten conventions, within which the sexes maneuvered and made their advances. Notice the metaphor is military, and yet it seems appropriate to encounters of the erotic kind.
Yet today, this sphere has been increasingly 'problematized' and then 'rationalized'. And rationalization leads to technology and technique. Civil society, with its spontaneous and middle method of muddling through suddenly gets split into conflicting camps. There is the emasculated feminist camp, with its concern for power and equality; and there is the reactionary 'manosphere' camp, with its concern to push seduction to the nth degree. What develops in both camps are ideologies, which are essentially techniques of thought for the maximization of power.
Back to the app. Technology is itself an expression of a technique of thought, of a dominant ideology. And so you will increasingly see a generation of young men too terrified to approach a women lest they be thought a potential stalker etc. The spontaneity of civil society, of erotic encounters and courtship, breaks down to be replaced by a rationalization of the relation between the sexes.
A future generation may look back and marvel at the whole chaotic nature of 'pick up' culture.... where men actually approached women in real life and seduced them. There was an order, a codex, a morality, then a break down of that order into a chaos of conflicting parts, and then the re-establishment of a new technological order, which made the old look like a walk in the park.
A previous generation largely had a codex of sorts to draw on, a set of unwritten conventions, within which the sexes maneuvered and made their advances. Notice the metaphor is military, and yet it seems appropriate to encounters of the erotic kind.
Yet today, this sphere has been increasingly 'problematized' and then 'rationalized'. And rationalization leads to technology and technique. Civil society, with its spontaneous and middle method of muddling through suddenly gets split into conflicting camps. There is the emasculated feminist camp, with its concern for power and equality; and there is the reactionary 'manosphere' camp, with its concern to push seduction to the nth degree. What develops in both camps are ideologies, which are essentially techniques of thought for the maximization of power.
Back to the app. Technology is itself an expression of a technique of thought, of a dominant ideology. And so you will increasingly see a generation of young men too terrified to approach a women lest they be thought a potential stalker etc. The spontaneity of civil society, of erotic encounters and courtship, breaks down to be replaced by a rationalization of the relation between the sexes.
A future generation may look back and marvel at the whole chaotic nature of 'pick up' culture.... where men actually approached women in real life and seduced them. There was an order, a codex, a morality, then a break down of that order into a chaos of conflicting parts, and then the re-establishment of a new technological order, which made the old look like a walk in the park.
