Letters to the Editor
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The Übermensch Way
If you read Being and Nothingness, LW, you'll discover that Being creates Nothingness, just as the religious fear of sex in America creates strip clubs and the fear of alcohol created Al Capone. And vice versa. Since marriage is a religious institution, to participate in one necessitates participating in its vulgar opposite-- the Bachelor Party.
Perhaps Cary and LW are pining for a more balanced approach. Oh that more women were allowed to be sexual beings instead of witnesses to the flouncy Manhattan insects we imagine such beings might resemble! Oh that men were allowed to revel in the beauty of the body in some more tasteful way! Instead we must do our worship in dark boxes: theaters, galleries, strip clubs, our own living rooms. The bodies we see are safely separated from us by invisible walls, right where we want them to be.
All these rituals are entirely meaningless, which is why in doing them we create their meaning. If you don't like the way things are, LW, do something else. It's the Übermensch way. (Then again, so is syphilitic insanity.)