/lit/ - Literature

This whole "surrogate activities" idea is total bullshit.
Ted is actually delusional here. It is ridiculous and patently false to claim that something as difficult as effective artistic expressions, successful scientific undertakings, or athletic achievements are purely motivated by a desire to create artificial meaning in ones life in the absence of immediate biological preservation. These are just elaborations of the power process he lionized in the previous chapter but extended beyond bodily preservation and into the realm of the mind. He seems to even tacitly admit this but just ignores it because he can't counter it.
>Scientific work may be motivated in part by a drive for prestige, artistic creation by a need to express feelings
>But for most people who pursue them, these activities are in large part surrogate activities
lmao cmon ted you didn't kill all those people just for this did you?