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The Paradox of Sacrifice and Enjoyment
Blacani: For me the political, political enjoyment has to be constituted through self-sacrifice. I think that for me the idea that is that without giving something up we don't create something of a transcendent value that we can enjoy. When we give it, when we give something up, we create an empty space where something has a value beyond the merely present and empirical. So this, this will actually make the political parts of this make more sense. It's like wet cream, queen creep. The moment you find, then you go to sacrifice the thing you projected your own sacrifice upon, you're going to have satisfied the desire it removes back to pleasure," says Blac