{The Great Problematic}: Will the ultimate liberation of the erotic from its dialectical relationship with Christianity result in
{a} The freeing of the erotic spirit so that man- and womankind will make love and not war?
or {b} The trivialization of the erotic by its demotion to yet another technique and need-satisfaction of the organism, toward the end that the demoniac spirit of the autonomous self, disappointed in all other sectors of life and in ordinary intercourse with others, is now disappointed even in the erotic, its last and best hope, and so erupts in violence--and in that very violence which is commensurate with the orgastic violence in the best days of the old erotic age--i.e., war?
{a} The freeing of the erotic spirit so that man- and womankind will make love and not war?
or {b} The trivialization of the erotic by its demotion to yet another technique and need-satisfaction of the organism, toward the end that the demoniac spirit of the autonomous self, disappointed in all other sectors of life and in ordinary intercourse with others, is now disappointed even in the erotic, its last and best hope, and so erupts in violence--and in that very violence which is commensurate with the orgastic violence in the best days of the old erotic age--i.e., war?
( Walker Percy )
[ Lost in the Cosmos: The Last ]
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