I like how both this and your last essay indirectly fight against the commodification and commercialization of the female body, but approach it through the lens of seeking connection with God and a higher sense of self-purpose. There’s so much written on the former subject where the conclusion is “because capitalism sucks” or “because misogyny sucks,” but they end with cynicism and lack a call to something higher.
Sharp diagnosis of online porn, but the solution retreats into a fragile, neo-Puritanical asceticism. Eros is a raw, physical drive engineered for genetic propagation, dominance, and legacy. Pleonexia shouldn't be pathologized as a spiritual defect that needs to be pacified into existential rest. For high-agency men, restlessness is the fuel source for excellence. Framing ambition and lust as sins is slave morality rebranded.
Pleonexia was considered a negative amongst classical Greeks, as witnessed by the Platonic dialogues, like the Gorgias. It is an insatiable desire for more unbridled by reason. There is a good "love of gain," as Plato tries to make clear in the Hipparchus, and this is seen in man's erotic appetites for pleasure, nobility, and truth - but they have to be governed by virtue. No one would accuse Plato of being a puritan, except maybe Callicles.
Many confuse erotism with pornography. One is a symphony, the other is a piano thrown from a tenth storey.
Nice analogy.
Thank you. I tried to come up with the greatest difference between them.
I like how both this and your last essay indirectly fight against the commodification and commercialization of the female body, but approach it through the lens of seeking connection with God and a higher sense of self-purpose. There’s so much written on the former subject where the conclusion is “because capitalism sucks” or “because misogyny sucks,” but they end with cynicism and lack a call to something higher.
Thank you! One goal is to show the positive spiritual realities and not simply the critiques.
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Thank you for your work, brother. The fragmented world we are in needs revelations like this. God be with you.
Thank you!
Sharp diagnosis of online porn, but the solution retreats into a fragile, neo-Puritanical asceticism. Eros is a raw, physical drive engineered for genetic propagation, dominance, and legacy. Pleonexia shouldn't be pathologized as a spiritual defect that needs to be pacified into existential rest. For high-agency men, restlessness is the fuel source for excellence. Framing ambition and lust as sins is slave morality rebranded.
Pleonexia was considered a negative amongst classical Greeks, as witnessed by the Platonic dialogues, like the Gorgias. It is an insatiable desire for more unbridled by reason. There is a good "love of gain," as Plato tries to make clear in the Hipparchus, and this is seen in man's erotic appetites for pleasure, nobility, and truth - but they have to be governed by virtue. No one would accuse Plato of being a puritan, except maybe Callicles.
What gay man wrote this for attention
Thank you!