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He doesn’t understand that sex, even stripped of its link with reproduction, still exists—not as a pleasure principle, but as a form of narcissistic differentiation.
Why has the Swedish model of social democracy never triumphed over liberalism? Why has it never been applied to sexual satisfaction? Because the metaphysical mutation brought about by modern science leads to individuation, vanity, malice and desire.
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desire—unlike pleasure—is a source of suffering, pain and hatred.
The utopian solution—from Plato to Huxley by way of Fourier—is to do away with desire and the suffering it causes by satisfying it immediately.
The opposite is true of the sex-and-advertising society we live in, where desire is marshaled and blown up out of all proportion, while satisfact...
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For society to function, for competition to continue, people have to want more and more, until desire fills their...
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In Brave New World, it’s tranquilizers and antidepressants; in Island it’s hallucinogens, meditation and some vague Hindu mysticism. In our own society, people try to use a mixture of both.”
“He’s well aware that science and materialism have completely undermined traditional spirituality, but he also realizes that society cannot survive without religion.
fact, any attempt at fusing science and religion is doomed by the knowledge of physical mortality, so cruelty and egotism cannot fail to spread.
In compensation,” he concluded bizarrely, “the same is true of love.”
How could society function without religion,
?? Houellebecq
obtain an exact replication across an indefinite succession of cellular generations, it would probably be necessary for genetic information to be on a compact structure—for example, a Möbius strip or a torus.
he could not bear the deterioration of objects, the breakage, the wear and tear.
Michel quickly realized that he should keep his distance from these young savages; there was little to fear from girls, however, more gentle creatures.
the only glimmer of devotion and altruism was the protective maternal instinct,
women were indisputably better than men. They were gentler, more affectionate, loving and compassionate; they were less prone to violence, selfishness, cruelty or self-centeredness. Moreover, they were more rational, intelligent and hardworking.
sunlight play across the curtains.
from time to time they felt the need to change history—which basically meant inciting revolutions or wars.
world of women would be immeasurably superior, tracing a slower but unwavering progression, with no U-turns and no chaotic insecurity, toward a general happiness.
love you dad. Now all that was past, over and done with. Bruno knew that things would only get worse, that they would move from mutual indifference to loathing.
Goes w what Michel sqid about famil relagionships, bht in a differentg way
They would come to be rivals—which was the natural relationship between men. They would be like animals fighting in a cage; and the cage was time.
Ohhhhhhhhh shit fhe cage is timeeeee
Between seven and twelve, a child is an astonishing being—kind, rational and open, full of joy and convinced that the world is a logical place.
“There’s nothing more stupid, aggressive, hateful or obnoxious than a teenage boy, especially when he’s with boys his own age.
He’s unbelievably conformist—at puberty a boy is the sudden, malicious and unpredictable (considering the child he was) crystallization of the very worst in mankind.
sexuality has to be an absolutely...
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fact, I’d say men aren’t capable of love; the emotion is completely alien to them.
The only emotions they know are desire—in the form of pure animal lust—and male rivalry.
man would come to feel a certain affection for his spouse—though not before she’d borne his children, made a home for them, cooked, cleaned and proved herself in the bedroom.
Love and men
Children existed solely to inherit a man’s trade, his moral code and his property.
That’s all gone now: I work for someone else, I rent my apartment from someone else, there’s nothing for my son to inherit. I have no craft to teach him, I haven’t a clue what he might do when he’s older. By the time he grows up, the rules I lived by will have no value—he will live in another universe.
Future - critique of societal changes and how quickly it evolves
life is reduced to nothing more than the sum of his own experience; past and future generations mean nothing to him. That’s how we live now. For a man to bring a child into the world now is meaningless.
Women are different, because they continue needing to have someone to love—which is not and ...
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Kids are a trap that has closed, they are the enemy—you have to pay for them all your life—and they outlive you.”
A lie is useful if it transforms reality, he thought, but if it fails, then all that’s left is the lie, the bitterness and the knowledge that it was a lie.
Reality
Michel noticed the empty cage
Cages again
“Later, her tits started to go south and our marriage went with them.
Human beings always do what is least painful. For as long as it is less painful to confess, we talk; then we go silent, we give up, we’re alone.
Her legs were too fat for her to wear miniskirts, but I convinced her to wear short tops with no bra; looking at big tits from below is a real turn-on. She was a bit embarrassed at first, but she got used to it.
she was almost beautiful.
Aspect experiments and the EPR paradox: how two particles, once united, are forever an inseparable whole,
from an ontological point of view, the pair can be assigned a single vector state in Hilbert space.
Attemps tol undertand emotional bonding and joining w physics
The only problem was that her little sister was really pretty. She looked a bit like Anne—she had big tits too—but she wasn’t plain at all, she had a beautiful face. It’s amazing how the smallest detail in someone’s features can make all the difference. Life’s a bitch
was unbearable, all those cute little girls in their little skirts with their little laughs.
I was really shocked when I found out she was expecting a boy. That was the worst—I was going to have to endure the worst. I should’ve been happy. I was only twenty-eight, but I felt dead inside.
tried again to become a Catholic. I’d lie on my Épéda mattress drinking pastis and reading The Mystery of the Holy Innocents.
Nice try dude
I wanted was for some little bitch to put her full lips around my cock and give me a blow-job.
they were always going out with someone else, always sucking someone else’s cock, and I just couldn’t stand it.
only begin to live through other people’s eyes. As time went by, I noticed that my colleagues at school looked at me without a trace of bitterness or dislike.
Was it possible to think of Bruno as an individual?
decay of his organs was particular to him, and he would suffer his decline and death as an individual.
