I like Seth’s mentioning of Freud’s take, that the search for the meaning of life is pretty much equivalent to the search for the meaning of religion or god. Same would be true, for science or the pursuit of any kind of knowledge at all. It certainly makes sense, that that would lead to a development of or pursuit of many avenues for i guess, emotional pacification or alleviation or whatever. (suddenly seeing it as coming and going beyond his control). I especially like Wes’ analogy of the baby longing for the breast, (who can’t relate to that lol) and the development of the divide, seperating him from that stimuli. It kind of reminds me of the baby argument i was making in an earlier post……i agree with Freud’s premise that the ego divides the internal from the external and that leads to all sorts of issues. Except, that i’d disagree that it’s necessarily a regression. I like Freud’s theory about religion being a type of regression. So yeah, basically i wonder if Freud would think that sex robots would be like the greatest advancment in human history. Which i imagine, would be much more fulfilling to the underlying needs that demand such actions. Things like pedophilia or rape or whatever else, will be easier to act out with these robots. I imagine, that in certain countries atleast……when that happens, there will be very little societal intervention or inhibiting of sexual actions with these robots. Most, if not all, futurists/people in the field of robotics….expect that in the very near future, sex robots will be available and accsessible for everyone.Īs the technology advances, those robots will become more and more realistic, to eventually being physically indistinguishable from real human beings. Which in a sense, alleviates much sexual frustration i imagine? (people can look at more stuff when they want and more intense stuff that society would generally condemn)įurthermore, i wonder what impact Freud would posit robotics would have. I wonder what Freud would think about the advancement and coming advancements of sexual technology.įor example, the internet allows much more ease of access to porn with providing much greater anonymity.
And secondly, the cocaine reference would of been a lot funnier if it was left unexplained. Yet we can't shake off its pursuit, and so we're in a bind, and have a number of strategies for obtaining some satisfaction: some compensation for what we have to repress in order to live in a society that forces us to repress our innate desires.Įnd song: "The Easy Thing" by New People from The Easy Thing (2009).įirst off, i thought the “Zorgon the Great” joke worked.
What's the meaning of life? Well, for Sigmund Freud, an objective purpose rises or falls with religion, which he thinks a matter of clinging to illusion, so to rephrase: what do we want out of life? To be happy, of course, yet he sees happiness as a matter of fulfillment of pent-up desires, meaning it's by its nature temporary.
Or become a PEL Citizen for $5 a month, and get access to this and all other paywalled episodes, including 68 back catalogue episodes exclusive Part 2's for episodes published after September, 2020 and our after-show Nightcap, where the guys respond to listener email and chat more causally.ĭiscussing Civilization and its Discontents (1930).