The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have ma...de if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Removed from its more restrictive sense, masturbation has become an expression for everything that has proved, for lack of human c...ontact, to be void of meaning. We have communication problems, suffer from egocentrism and narcissism, are frustrated by information glut and loss of environment; we stagnate despite the rising GNP.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think an erotics of place may be one of the reasons why environmentalists are seen as subversive. There is a backlash now:... [e...llipsis in source] take all the regulations away; weaken existing legislation; the endangered species act is too severe, too restrictive; let there be carte blanche for real-estate developers. Because if we really have to confront wildness, solitude, and serenity, both the fierceness and compassionate nature of the land, then we ultimately have to confront it in ourselves, and it's easier to be numb, to be distracted, to be disengaged.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »