Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Unzipped

Every time I turn around lately, some celebrity or politician is confessing to adultery. What's going on? A number of explanations come to mind.

  • Men are just behaving naturally. They are hardwired to screw as many woman as possible as often as possible in order to perpetuate the species. Biology wins.
  • Actually the vast majority of men keep their pants zipped. The media explodes the few exceptions, giving great visibility to minority behavior and giving the impression adultery is more prevalent than it really is.
  • There is, in fact, more adultery going on but women, not men, are responsible. Women have taken control of their sex lives in historically unprecedented ways, seducing men being one of the easier components of their empowerment. Men are just men. Women are now the sexual aggressors.
  • This is about power, not sex, and men in power use sex to prove their power. More men than women are in power, which is why men are the sexual aggressors.
  • Like the fall of Rome, increased adultery in America is a sign of the decadence that precedes the Second Coming.
  • Men and women alike sense the environmental catastrophe ahead of us and are partying before the shit hits the fan.
  • Increased adultery, whether men or women are the aggressor, is a symptom of a larger cultural disease, the failure of the imagination, which results in a bias toward literal experience. But as Norman Brown has written, after Blake, (to paraphrase) the real fight is the mental fight, the Fiery Chariot of His Contemplative Thought. Reality shows, "based on a true story," adultery -- all are a consequence of the cultural failure to value the imagination and to treat imaginative acts as real.



I've never been a Brett Favre fan but wow, last night on Monday Night Football he was damn impressive. All the same, except for mistakes Green Bay still could have won the game. The rematch should be even more exciting.


Love the quiet in the house now.

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