This head-hunting that takes place on the Northwest Coast after a death is no matter of blood revenge or of organized violence. There is no effort to tie the subsequent killing with any responsibility on the part of the victim for the death of a person who is being mourned. A chief whose son has […]
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Not even quite scattershot vengeance
Cockroaches and Balloons:
Weiningerian Reactions to a Distractionist
In the following oblique philosophical rant, occasioned by nihilist/distractionist George (whose views can seem bleaker even than Luno’s), Luno reveals his own lively obsession with dividing up the moral world in two, one part governed by a feminine, the other by a (you guessed it!) masculine imperative. —Ed. note.
(Distractionist) GEORGE:
It would seem any moral theory […]
Cockroaches and Balloons:
Weiningerian Reactions to a Distractionist, ii
[back to part i]
GEORGE:
Ultimately, what possible difference could it make to understand why Weininger did what he did…or to speculate on What It Means? If [Luno] were sitting in a doctor’s office listening to her explain to him why he only has a few days to live…would he be thinking about Weininger’s suicide?
Actually, I […]
