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The Blindness of Civilized People
Silly little pleasures that were formerly enjoyed like smoking and drinking, wearing fur, driving a car. These sorts of things supplanted at some point in the 90s let's say by a different kind of regime of pleasure without pleasuresWithout dangerous acts, the dangerous element right? So yeah, I wonder if you could kind of tie that into what you were just saying,. how these indromence of these silly little pleasures has changed and what that might say. And I very think it is because all these elements belong to the sphere of what anthropologist Michel Léville has nicely called the sacred of everyday lives. It needs there is a huge amount of sacred fees which don't belong to institutional