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The Body Is the Prison for the Soul
I'm reading Judith Butler and it finally clicked on me because she's got this whole thing I'm kind of like blowing my load to early here talking about this. The social constructions are the spirit so the social construction of society around you which you're trying to manipulate by either manipulating the idea or the material conditions is the spirit. Your soul whatever that represents is therefore your understanding of yourself through the social constructions of reality applied to you becomes the prison for your body. i do like this idea of it being a superior technology to have exploited this phenomenon but what you're seeing is simultaneously we always talk about like the enlightenment and then there’s a counter-enlightment right?