Status Updates From Sex and Violence, or Nature...

3/3 “…relationships. Everyone has killed in order to live. Nature's universal law of creation from destruction operates in mind as in matter. As Freud, Nietzsche's heir, asserts, identity is conflict. Each generation drives its plow over the bones of the dead.”

2/ “…Society is not the criminal but the force which keeps crime in check. When social controls weaken, man's innate cruelty bursts forth. The rapist is created not by bad social influences but by a failure of
social conditioning. Feminists, seeking to drive power relations out of sex, have set themselves against nature. Sex is power. Identity is power. In western culture, there are no nonexploitative…

1/ “[Rousseau’s idea] assumes that aggression, violence, and crime come from social deprivation—a poor neighborhood, a bad home… Aggression comes from nature; it is what Nietzsche is to call the will-to-power. For Sade, getting back to nature (the Romantic imperative that still permeates our culture from sex counseling to cereal commercials) would be to give free rein to violence and lust. I agree. Society…

“In the beginning was nature. The background from which and against which our ideas of God were formed, nature remains the supreme moral problem.”

I might as well cop to the subtext - I hate it when people who are much cleverer than me make arguments I can't challenge