On the Left, the sexually liberated woman is the woman of pornography. Free male sexuality wants, has a right to, produces, and consumes pornography because pornography is pleasure. Leftist sensibility promotes and protects pornography because pornography is freedom. The pornography glut is bread and roses for the masses. Freedom is the mass-marketing of woman as whore. Free sexuality for the woman is in being massively consumed, denied an individual nature, denied any sexual sensibility other than that which serves the male. Capitalism is not wicked or cruel when the commodity is the whore; profit is not wicked or cruel when the alienated worker is a female piece of meat; corporate bloodsucking is not wicked or cruel when the corporations in question, organized crime syndicates, sell cunt; racism is not wicked or cruel when the black cunt or yellow cunt or red cunt or Hispanic cunt or Jewish cunt has her legs splayed for any man’s pleasure; poverty is not wicked or cruel when it is the poverty of dispossessed women who have only themselves to sell; violence by the powerful against the powerless is not wicked or cruel when it is called sex; slavery is not wicked or cruel when it is sexual slavery; torture is not wicked or cruel when the tormented are women, whores, cunts. The new pornography is left-wing; and the new pornography is a vast graveyard where the Left has gone to die. The Left cannot have its whores and its politics too.
The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.
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The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal. The variety seeking spectator, the thrill hunter, the sexually promiscuous, always ends in the same place. It has an end. It comes to the end and has to start over. It is not a journey and return, but a closed cycle, a locked room, a cell.
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They both had suffered from it, and suffered a good deal, but it had not occured to either of them to escape the suffering by denying the commitment.
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If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.
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Mahalle Baskısı
…the social conscience completely dominates the individual conscience, instead of striking a balance with it. We don’t cooperate-we obey. We fear being outcast, being called lazy, dysfunctional, egoizing. We fear our neighbor’s opinion more than we respect our own freedom of choice.
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Siz Devrim yapamazsınız. Siz ancak Devrim olabilirsiniz."(13)
Ursula Le Guin'in The Dispossessed adlı romanının baş karakteri Shevek, Büyücünün bilgeliğini şu sözlerle özetler:
"Siz Devrim yapamazsınız. Siz ancak Devrim olabilirsiniz."(13) Siz böyle yaptığınızda, dünyanız -adeta sihirli bir bir biçimde- değişir.
Sayfa 265
They think if people can posses enough things they will be content to live in prison.
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The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.
But you spoke of physical suffering, of a man dying of burns. And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life.
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To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.