On 8/23/05, Gautam Mukunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Maru Dubshinki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Clearly what we have here is a rather progressive > > youngster, a shining > > example of the further march of liberty: this > > wimmin, or persun, is > > advocating that toilet paper be liberated from its > > constricted role of > > cleaning our bottoms. They hold with Freud that this > > fixation on the > > anus is infantilizing, and retarding of progress > > integrating the self; > > in short blocking personal growth. Thusly, we must > > change the "role" > > which toilet paper plays to clean other areas, such > > as the nostrils, > > or the mouth, other bodily orifices. I dare say > > that in this cry for > > progress we can see a covert dialectic, leading to a > > synthesis of the > > negative, or "shadow" aspects of the whole > > metemphysical nature of > > toilet paper: what could be more subversive than > > turning an item that > > is meant to clean, and tragically, be immediately > > disposed of into a > > representation of the Great Mother that the > > patriarchal Western > > scientific society has repressed and demonized than > > by into the > > embodiment of its enemy, waste, and permament waste > > at that? > > > > ~Maru > > Frighteningly enough, it wasn't entirely clear to me > that this was a satire the first time I read it... > > Gautam Mukunda
Didja like how I threw in some legitimate scholarship like Freud's anal fixation theories of sexual maturation, and the Great mother religious motif, and Jung's shadow, just to camouflage the nonsense? ~Maru _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
