01-10-2020, 11:57 AM
(01-10-2020, 11:00 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote: Pornography is addictive, it's like heroin injected through the eyes.
Addiction is a miserable way of life, offering false simulation of safety and bliss to people who have neither. Gambling is a good example: casino gambling is a losing proposition, but gamblers feel like winners as they pump money into slog machines. There's a drug for almost every psychic need -- never mind that most such drugs solve nothing.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.