UNLOCKED: Freud and Politics (w/ Pat Blanchfield)
Know Your Enemy
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Is There a Resignation?
There's a sort of resignation that's involved in this, like a lot of the ways in which we conceive of what the task of politics is. The irrationality as a senectic for the libidnal joys that one can derive from attaching themselves to one political idea instead of another. But i think also, there's a humility and a kind of equanimity that i derive from this,. If you stand that people's attachment to the political ideas that they have is not always simply, i hate that person. I am rationally a mesogenist. That's also, in another way, a very depressing political landscape. It provides a pathway to understanding that our political
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