I just read Denial of Death. It was my first exposure to the strange fascination psychoanalysts had with shit. On the one hand, it is interesting to wonder how much we are fascinated by this but do not know it. On the other, it sounds like their analysis went off the rails and simply condemns them as being disconnected from reality.
I prefer your summary here in using the truth of bodily functions to level the playing field and remind both sides of the aisles we all shit, and we're all going to die. Why not play nice?
Exactly. I think their obsession appears so due to the majority of society intently, and intentionally ignoring it. That's why the conversations on our animal sexual impulses get people so tied up in knots where the most sex positive sound like puritans.
Absolutely. The knowledge of good and evil and the elevation from our naked state seems to indicate the angelic knowledge the animal attained which creates the dichotomy in which sin a core concept.
Nailed another quandary. #metoo bugged me for exaclty the same reasons and it drives me nuts that most people, especially women, can't see that or refuse to even consider it.
Becker's "worm-infested body" is a total misconception of human nature and raises severe doubts about his general knowledge about the biosphere on the "Pale Blue Dot" ...
He's a shill and part of a specific agenda ... No need to mention his extraction here ...
Yes, worms CAN be present when the person is diseased, a purely pathological condition ...
but
The human microbiome in the gastro-intestinal tract is just one of the many miracles we barely start to understand (and value).
Without the trillions of microbes, hundreds of kinds, residing in our guts, by munching the food we eat and extracting the nutrients we so badly need on a daily basis, humans, as well as other mammals, would not have been able to develop, not be able to survive.
These anaerobic microbes developed billions of years ago, THEY are the TRUE masters of survival:
Its them, that "use" our bodies as a vehicle in order to survive in a toxic environment that was created in the Great Oxigenation Event a couple of billion years ago ...
Information-flow between the GI-tract and brain is about triple the intensity than from the brain to the "rest" of the body.
This flips the narrative entirely and we should highly appreciate our decay into the soil in order to feed some other kinds of microbes waiting for our fluids and tissues ... 🤣🤣🤣
Humans may be the current apex predator and destroyer, but we're faaar from being survivalists.
I'm not sure that what you described contradicts Becker's insights at all. Haven't read Denial of Death a few times, I think he'd fully agree wtih you.
I just read Denial of Death. It was my first exposure to the strange fascination psychoanalysts had with shit. On the one hand, it is interesting to wonder how much we are fascinated by this but do not know it. On the other, it sounds like their analysis went off the rails and simply condemns them as being disconnected from reality.
I prefer your summary here in using the truth of bodily functions to level the playing field and remind both sides of the aisles we all shit, and we're all going to die. Why not play nice?
Exactly. I think their obsession appears so due to the majority of society intently, and intentionally ignoring it. That's why the conversations on our animal sexual impulses get people so tied up in knots where the most sex positive sound like puritans.
Perhaps the concept of “original sin” is the Judeo-Christian perspective on humanity’s animalistic nature.
Absolutely. The knowledge of good and evil and the elevation from our naked state seems to indicate the angelic knowledge the animal attained which creates the dichotomy in which sin a core concept.
Nailed another quandary. #metoo bugged me for exaclty the same reasons and it drives me nuts that most people, especially women, can't see that or refuse to even consider it.
Makes my head hurt just thinking about it now!
Becker's "worm-infested body" is a total misconception of human nature and raises severe doubts about his general knowledge about the biosphere on the "Pale Blue Dot" ...
He's a shill and part of a specific agenda ... No need to mention his extraction here ...
Yes, worms CAN be present when the person is diseased, a purely pathological condition ...
but
The human microbiome in the gastro-intestinal tract is just one of the many miracles we barely start to understand (and value).
Without the trillions of microbes, hundreds of kinds, residing in our guts, by munching the food we eat and extracting the nutrients we so badly need on a daily basis, humans, as well as other mammals, would not have been able to develop, not be able to survive.
These anaerobic microbes developed billions of years ago, THEY are the TRUE masters of survival:
Its them, that "use" our bodies as a vehicle in order to survive in a toxic environment that was created in the Great Oxigenation Event a couple of billion years ago ...
Information-flow between the GI-tract and brain is about triple the intensity than from the brain to the "rest" of the body.
This flips the narrative entirely and we should highly appreciate our decay into the soil in order to feed some other kinds of microbes waiting for our fluids and tissues ... 🤣🤣🤣
Humans may be the current apex predator and destroyer, but we're faaar from being survivalists.
I'm not sure that what you described contradicts Becker's insights at all. Haven't read Denial of Death a few times, I think he'd fully agree wtih you.