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Jealousy. But what a mountain is to be uncovered here. The key is that degraded expressions, as I keep saying, express in perverted form, the true nature of man’s needs. So, simply, jealousy is the degraded expression of the deep desire for the brotherhood of man. If jealous emotions give us pleasure—as is true for most bisexuals—it is not because one is expressing one’s “latent homosexuality” which is the vulgar ''condemnation'' analysts generally put upon it, but because, as a practical matter, it is the only way one can feel “close” to another man. (We can feel close to other women by fucking them.) | Jealousy. But what a mountain is to be uncovered here. The key is that degraded expressions, as I keep saying, express in perverted form, the true nature of man’s needs. So, simply, jealousy is the degraded expression of the deep desire for the brotherhood of man. If jealous emotions give us pleasure—as is true for most bisexuals—it is not because one is expressing one’s “latent homosexuality” which is the vulgar ''condemnation'' analysts generally put upon it, but because, as a practical matter, it is the only way one can feel “close” to another man. (We can feel close to other women by fucking them.) | ||
I remember that once with a girl I loved considerably, I got into an orgy (a quartet) and when she came while the other man was making love to her, I came too just watching—actually receiving the experience. I was horrified, horrified at her, at myself | I remember that once with a girl I loved considerably, I got into an orgy (a quartet) and when she came while the other man was making love to her, I came too just watching—actually receiving the experience. I was horrified, horrified at her, at myself; I loathed the other man. But that was obviously defense against “taking.” I could not admit the other man into brotherhood. But from deep in me, although fundamentally I’m still quite incapable of doing this with Adele,{{LJ:Adele}} I suspect that there is great joy in giving one’s mate to another man—there is genuine brotherhood at the heart of it. | ||
Which is why Reich{{LJ:Reich}} with his incredible instincts and courage was so right about The Sexual Revolution. One cannot have a libertarian egalitarian society until one has the orgy accepted as a genuine part of life. For note, the orgy as I have said before, is the repetition of the family situation—but our first sense of brotherhood is given us by the family, and indeed in the socialized bastardized sense the brotherhood of man is given social sanction within the limits of the family—my mother for example is completely selfless within family limits, she would literally die for one of us | Which is why Reich{{LJ:Reich}} with his incredible instincts and courage was so right about The Sexual Revolution. One cannot have a libertarian egalitarian society until one has the orgy accepted as a genuine part of life. For note, the orgy as I have said before, is the repetition of the family situation—but our first sense of brotherhood is given us by the family, and indeed in the socialized bastardized sense the brotherhood of man is given social sanction within the limits of the family—my mother for example is completely selfless within family limits, she would literally die for one of us. That is why she has so much life: she has gotten away with expressing her {{LJ:H}} all her life under cover of the {{LJ:S}}; it is why I will always love her for in that sense she is truly good. The orgy is a reflection of the family, but the family is the first primal shock “in human language,” that is, conceptually, to the infant. It is the first understanding that the I is the We, the first apperception of the brotherhood of man, the communion of all souls. | ||
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