FROM SEXITY TO THE EROIC FORCE

In an earlier post, I posited the idea that sex is everywhere. This is true phenomenologically. But the more primitive force underlying sex is the eroic force.  The eroic force, like gravity, is every.  Just as we are bathed in gravity from the moment of conception until we die, so we are bathed in the eroic force throughout our lifetime.  That is lesson number one.  Until we learn this lesson, we will continue to make life miserable for humanity.  Lesson number two is that sex, as a manifestation of the eroic force, comes in many forms, is multi-dimensional, and more complex than anyone has yet imagined.  Lesson number three is that sex exists for humans of all ages, keeping in mind that sex is a particularly focused form of sensuality.  One must be sensual first.  Lesson number four: touching is the alpha and omega of life.  In an important sense, nothing else matters without it.  Now what?                                                                       Are there sensual and sexual issues of consent and violence because we don’t yet understand sex?  Imagine a world in which movies, video games, and stories featured love, romance, sex in all of their consensual combinations and permutations and contained no violence, no guns, no mayhem.  What would that say about that world?  And what does it say about our world that this is not the case with us?  Why shouldn't we pursue pleasure above profits, money, territory, above all else?                                                 What about the problem of evil that is a central concern in the debates between atheists and theists?  It should be clear by now that we don’t need a God to identify and to struggle against evil.  Furthermore, the problem of evil is not the problem of extreme evil represented by Genghis Kahn and Hitler, or by Manson and Bundy but rather the problem of mundane evil represented by the school-yard bully, the mugger, the spouse abuser, and emotional violence.  How much of this violence is a reaction to the barriers and taboos we erect to control and direct and dam up sex and sensuality?  It's illegal to have sex in public, but we will tolerate all levels of violence in the public arena without making violence an emergency priority.  School bullying?  Part of growing up.  Police brutality?  Let the cops do their job; it's hard enough without having soft hearted liberals interfering.  War?  Part of human nature.  When the state calls pick up a gun and start shooting.  It's easier to make a federal case out of someone masturbating in an empty corner of a theatre, or two people having sex in the stands at a baseball game.  The latter became a police issue in the U.S. but not in Canada.  What's going on between you and sex, America?