Andy Ngô "The first known case of human to dog #monkeypox transmission has been documented in medical journal, the Lancet. The dog caught it from its owners, a non-monogamous gay couple in Paris. The greyhound developed an anal ulceration & mucocutaneous lesions."
(media.greatawakening.win)
🤢 These people are sick! 🤮
Yes, of course all life is bound by its instinct and its code, of course nature controls with pleasure and pain, but you can and should fight nature.
The default, natural state of your muscles is to expend as little energy as possible and thereby to be as small and as inexpensive as possible, and when you try to go against this, i.e work out, it is very difficult and painful and you want to quit every step of the way. And this is right, if expending energy felt good we would burn all our calories away in dance.
Nature is "right" in this scheme so as to build enduring forms, but that doesn't mean that as a higher form of life you shouldn't fight that natural pressure and build your muscles and become big and strong, in defiance of entropy and decay. It is the same with sex, of course it must feel good or else no one would waste their time on it, but in order to rise above the lower forms of life, a little discipline and pain must be endured.
I don't judge anyone on their particular soma indulgences while here in the prison rat pile, go for it while in the your cage (as long as you're not hurting anyone else, including those who by definition cannot consent to participate), I too eat sweets, am lazy, occasionally take drugs, and indulge in sexual gratification for its own sake, but it is nonetheless clear to me that these behaviors are poor placeholders for free life on the Frontier, and knowing this is important for when the chance comes to leave my cage I will not fear or mourn the loss of my comforts and pleasures. When we are truly free, when we live right at the border of actual chaos, none of these little onanisms are of concern or interest and real Meaning can be achieved.
Sex isn't wrong, it's beneath you, because you are higher life. But, while not wrong in a moral sense, biological categories are fluid, the more we open our society to these indulgences and the more we give in to nature and the more we elevate comfort and pleasure, the more we slide into the evolutionary mud, the more we domesticate ourselves and become less human and more yeast, less cognitive and more digestive, and if if for long enough insufficient numbers of us do not fight the slide then generations hence we will cease to exist and an objectively worse form will have succeeded us. This is all without even mentioning the forces which actively seek to hasten this transformation, but that is another issue altogether.