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13903202 No.13903202 [Reply] [Original]

>>With anal play the child is already becoming a philosopher of the human condition. But like all philosophers he is still bound by it, and his main task in life becomes the denial of what the anus represents:

>> No.13903217

>>13903202
>As Montaigne put it, on the highest throne in the world man sits on his arse. Usually this epigram makes people laugh because it seems to reclaim the world from artificial pride and snobbery and to bring things back to egalitarian values. But if we push the observation even further and say men sit not only on their arse, but over a warm and fuming pile of their own excrement—thd joke is no longer funny. The tragedy of mans dualism, his ludicrous situation, becomes too real. The anus and its incomprehensible, repulsive product represents not only physical determinism and boundness, but the fate as well of all that is physical: decay and death.

>> No.13903242

>>13903202
>final time: Excreting is the curse that threatens madness because it shows man his abject finitude, his physicalness, the likely unreality of his hopes and dreams.

>> No.13903340

Becker is a typical Jew, thinking that death is the worst thing that can happen to someone, greedily clinging to any form of existence rather than going out.

For the Aryan take, read Zapffe, who thinks the real problem is consciousness itself and that everything we do is a cope to deal with it. Which resembles that other Aryan, Gautama.