Sunday, January 23, 2005

Who ya gonna whine to?

It is true that sexual repression makes one
miserable, but so does sexual license, the more
so if one is female. Sex is not the problem,
contrary to Sigmund Freud. The problem is life.
When Faust tells Mephistopheles that he wants to
experience life with all its joys and sorrows,
the devil answers pityingly, "Believe me - I've
been chewing on this hard cookie for thousands of
years, and from cradle to grave, no one has ever
been able to digest this sourdough." Life by
definition is a failure. First you will grow old
(if you are lucky) and then die. Family,
religion, culture and nation offer consolations
in the face of death, within limits.

What consolations?

Like the lady said, "The universe doesn't give
a shit about you." And neither do all those
other abstractions above.

You're on your own.

Make the best of it. No one can do that better
than you, can they.

The whole article.