Nova, thanks for your comment to "Art loves you, Anarkee". I will comment upon it :-)
I'm certainly not into a narrow definition of sex. And I'm not into religious flogging of humanity, either. All the havoc we cause is not because we´re bad creatures, as a matter of fact I like to take a "beyond good and evil" view on this. To get rid of guilt instead of getting guilt-ridden. Guilt is an instrument to control people, I think. No, we are what we are, human beings whose fundamental construction biologically in some respects conflict with our mental abilities. We are mutants right out of the monkey family with monstrous mental capabilities - and we can even be seen as viruses on our Gaia home; the earth. Superior to an extent where we're able to get ourselves exterminated. Even if we try to submit to selfdefined gods to reach a maturity to be able to deal with our real status in the world. And that brings me
back to sex: Humans, men and women, are the dominant creatures of the world. The real creative ones. We make up beautiful (and horrific) worlds in our minds and sometimes we succeed implementing them in reality. And now: Men and women are biologically, and thus mentally, different from eachother. Biologically reproduction draws us towards eachother. And that is a fact so fundamental, that our differencies span the whole personality, from our most basic reptile functions to the mental, spiritual ones. The challenge is to embrace that fact that in quest for harmony internally and inbetween eachother as humans. And without uniting male and female we will never be whole beings. Religions deals with this, yin-yang etc, but christianity historically has a great problem here, I think. Separating body from soul and making women temptresses from hell to be kept down by father-figures. But "woman" is no more inferior to "man" than the opposite. We must accept our differencies to be able to mend the wounds and make love, big time.
Hope you get my extended idea of "sex". And never forget that it's directly and inevitably connected with the more narrow definition of sex, coitus, the intercourse. Halleluja for that; thank you nature! Pure celebration of life, a highway to get interconnected in all sorts of ways :-)
And the more communication, the freer the communication, the better relations and better intercourses, bonding, empaty. No need cutting things up like bad religion, leaving the relieving, soothing and gate- opening qualities of the basic sexual activities out in the cold, right?
As a matter of fact we humans, individuals and all, are very much alike. If we connect via excellent communication, we're much less likely going to kick in eachothers faces and stuff like that, because then it will feel like we're hurting ourselves. But excellent communication takes guts, because it combines honesty with real feelings. Not for the faint of heart to begin with, but everybody can improve gradually.
The next leap forward to Homo Sapiens part II can start with the anarchistic internet, no stupid rulers, free expression for everyone. It can take our conscience to new levels, heal the world. Great expectations, you might say, but why not?
Our urge to rise to a certain status can be easily fulfilled if we just grasp that the only highclass respect we will ever get, is the one we get voluntarily. A goodbye to dictators, redundant primitivity, in full respect for our actual, physical existence!
We don't need anarchy as a new political system, according to me. Democracy will serve and anarchy cannot be implemented as a "social system". It has to evolve individually, psychologically internally and between af few at a time.. and then still more and more people connecting in anarchistic ways. And when we reach a certain number, things WILL change. Don't you think?
"What is art?", you ask me. A wonderful question, thank you. I think art is any sublime form of communication, expressed through humans but depending only on itself - and thus, freethinking at it's most. A basis not only for survival of our species, but for transformation, too. I see us as ambassadors of life in this universe, life, the most divine arrangement of matter there is. You may see this as a pretentious, even pompous, statement. But I mean it.
We have a chance. Why not use it? I'm go!
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