17 KIDS? THAT'S GOD FOR YA
The business over at Paula's about the couple with 17 kids got me going. For one thing, someone said that I write over-the-top stuff to get people steamed up. That is a lie. My stuff is moderate and restrained, considering that my political opposition communicates by glossolalia.
As to the seventeen kids, there's a reason such prolific couples are often Bible bangers: Bible bangers generally bang Bibles because banging each other makes them feel really, really guilty. They think (and are taught) that sex is a filthy sinful necessity imposed upon the human race by God in a moment of error and that the only possible way you can fuck and not go to hell is to justify each and every fuck by producing a baby, which is fortunately so painful and aggravating that it serves as penance besides, just in case the fun was too over-the-top.
Sigmund Freud is out of fashion just now (he goes in and out, oops, I mean he comes and goes, I mean, oh, hell, shaddap) but trust me, he'll be all the rage again in a few years. In his psychoanalytic take on religion, The Future of an Illusion, he says that the ritualistic behavior associated with religious practice also appears in certain forms of mental illness, and he attempts to trace the behavior to a common root (shaddap). And what's ritualistic? It's behavior which is compulsive, repetitive, and not rational, as to which having 17 kids seems to qualify unless it's 1880 and you're trying to farm someplace in South Dakota, which it's not and they're not.
People can express their neuroses any number of ways and this being a free country, we have to tolerate it, even though the woman next to you on the subway who is wearing a burka is implying that your girlfriend in shorts is a whore, and the woman wrapped in her burka of children is saying more or less the same thing.
As to the seventeen kids, there's a reason such prolific couples are often Bible bangers: Bible bangers generally bang Bibles because banging each other makes them feel really, really guilty. They think (and are taught) that sex is a filthy sinful necessity imposed upon the human race by God in a moment of error and that the only possible way you can fuck and not go to hell is to justify each and every fuck by producing a baby, which is fortunately so painful and aggravating that it serves as penance besides, just in case the fun was too over-the-top.
Sigmund Freud is out of fashion just now (he goes in and out, oops, I mean he comes and goes, I mean, oh, hell, shaddap) but trust me, he'll be all the rage again in a few years. In his psychoanalytic take on religion, The Future of an Illusion, he says that the ritualistic behavior associated with religious practice also appears in certain forms of mental illness, and he attempts to trace the behavior to a common root (shaddap). And what's ritualistic? It's behavior which is compulsive, repetitive, and not rational, as to which having 17 kids seems to qualify unless it's 1880 and you're trying to farm someplace in South Dakota, which it's not and they're not.
People can express their neuroses any number of ways and this being a free country, we have to tolerate it, even though the woman next to you on the subway who is wearing a burka is implying that your girlfriend in shorts is a whore, and the woman wrapped in her burka of children is saying more or less the same thing.
posted by archer at 3:51 AM
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