Episode 189: The Anality of Evil (Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents")
Very Bad Wizards
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Is It a Rhetorical Technique?
I think the understanding of what freud meant is up for grabs a little bit. He's not really giving advice, because there's always a trade off. But then he also has a kind of fatalism, or tragic sensibility about the competition between civilization and need satisfaction. It's very possible thin herthe we shall accustom ourselves to eventually pfully to the idea that there are certain difficulties inherent in the very nature of culture which will not yield to any efforts of reform. Like this isn't something that we can fix. We can make it better, maybe, or at least not make it worse.
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