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I Don’t Need to Be a ‘Good Person.’ Neither Do You.
Limits cannot hold when it comes to pleasure. What is too much one day is not enough on another. What is too much for one person is just enough for another. And so on. This trouble with pleasure can be lived with. What seemingly can’t is the feeling that the basic laws that shore up our society are only just functioning; every day we face new evide
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we’ve reached a real pitch of delirium regarding generalized advice, prescriptions, moral codes for behavior and images of some supposedly achievable balance
New York Times • I Don’t Need to Be a ‘Good Person.’ Neither Do You.
desire is a compass
New York Times • I Don’t Need to Be a ‘Good Person.’ Neither Do You.
Now the internet has given us access to all of it, all at once, and none of it in its real, embodied, sensually lived and shared forms
New York Times • I Don’t Need to Be a ‘Good Person.’ Neither Do You.
pleasure is hard-won, small, ephemeral; singular to each person
New York Times • I Don’t Need to Be a ‘Good Person.’ Neither Do You.
We are contradictory creatures, wondrously and terrifyingly so