tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post4784793291655734300..comments2023-08-20T04:55:39.436-07:00Comments on Ars Psychiatrica: FatheringNovalishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10501890494890617030noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-55009308040644231792010-06-22T02:37:40.862-07:002010-06-22T02:37:40.862-07:00I like that theory a lot...rattling the bars of th...I like that theory a lot...rattling the bars of the evolutionary cage, or more appropriately, trying to claw one's way out of the evolutionary egg.<br /><br />I've also thought of children as an unconscious means of having a stake in the future (the present, even); a tethering so that one isn't tempted to just wander away.Novalishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10501890494890617030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-58792226699806874612010-06-22T02:05:58.831-07:002010-06-22T02:05:58.831-07:00Could having children be an attempt to defy biolog...Could having children be an attempt to defy biology, not perpetuate its imprints, through cultural sculpting? A subconscious defiance to improve on the fallible given and create the ideal? Anti-narcissistic? Hatred of the self, love of the ideal other whom biology could never replicate?<br /><br />Androids are uncontaminated with biology - and consciousness, so far anyway...the paradoxical realisation of the human ideal without humanity?<br /><br />Or just plain fear of loneliness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com