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How going green could actually improve your sex life and your health. Have you ever been waiting in line for your 'fast-food' meal while in your car? Think about how bad this practice is for you. It's just like being quiescent over the winter months, minimizing your activity in order to conserve energy. What you're really doing in the process is nothing but an insipid act toward yourself and nature - enter any drive thru you have just yoked together 'fast-food' and 'green house emission gases.' These two examples of your addiction to 'over consumption' has negative side effects on your sex life and health. Let's explore these areas in further detail.
The source of your addiction
Your addiction to consumption is part of the aggression you have toward nature - albeit an inherit aggression, what psychoanalysts would call a conflict between the instinctual and the symbolic sides of the human psyche.* This aggression begins at birth the moment you encounter an all powerful good mother and bad mother. On one side nature is ever-loving, nature feeds, holds, and protects us from danger. But nature also has a knack for harming you too. Nature makes you work for the fruits and vegetables, thus; you are forced to postpone gratification.* Nature also posses threats outside of our control such as; hurricanes, droughts, earthquakes, and other forces that you have no control over. The bottom line is: the nature you love is the nature you hate. This causes you to be manic, you develop a defense mechanism to help you get through this reality. You become an addict to overconsumption.
The mania
The reason you all become addicts of overconsumption stems from the fact that you have to work on nature, and in effect destroy or alter nature. In order for culture to progress you must destroy or alter that which you must work on in order to survive. But this destruction has an affect on you internally because you are not separate from nature - for you, nature remains an all-powerful life giving force, the good mother you always fantasized about. This creates a mania inside of you, a pathogenic state of confusion whereby in order to overcome this you must confront the anxiety and guilt that accompanies that damage.* But instead, in order to forget about this, or numb the pain, you construct a defense mechanism that protects you against the anxiety and guilt that would help integrate you. By doing this society has constructed a wall that has paired nature out and you in the drivers seat - you have become the plucky little monster that thinks you have everlasting control over nature, you view nature as an enemy that must be conquered and destroyed. The bottom line is: The more you do this the more empty you will feel because of your constant denial to the ever loving nature - the good mother.
The consumer is you
You consume and consume and consume. Why? You do this simply because you are in constant manic denial with the world and yourself. You literally have a hunger much deeper than food, it is a hunger to replace and find that all loving mother in order to fill that void of emptiness you have inside. As John Carroll puts it: "if you feel bad, eat!"* You have become a fervid consumer of objects, you have become a peripatetic object driven consumer of things that looks for a quick fix and reconnection to the good mother. You find your reconnection with the good mother through objects and thereby you become a consumer addict, constantly fishing for and giving up old objects for new and better ones.* You will never be happy going down this road because of the ephemeral elation at re-finding that all perfect mother finally gives way to the reality of having to lose her over and over again. The bottom line is: Consumption of stuff is a constant recipe for dissatisfaction, it actually works to reproduce the very hunger and emptiness you carry inside- over consumption is not the way to fill yourself up. Give up the very objects that you crave, and come to terms that the objects in your life are far more powerful than yourself.
For more information and other readings: Please feel free to look out for part 2 of this green section. You can also read my blog and sign up to be the first to receive more information from my up-coming 'Raw Naked Food' book and newsletter at www.rawnakedfood.com. You could also follow me on twitter at www.twitter.com/rawnakedfood
*Walter Truett Anderson, To Govern Evolution (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987), pp.326,325.
*Hegel, The Phenomenology of Mind, p.238.
*Isaac D. Balbus, Mourning And Modernity: Essays in the Psychoanalysis of Contemporary Society (New York: Other Press, 2005), pp.133,132.
*Carrol, Ego and Soul, p. 119.
*Melanie Klein, "A Contribution to the Psychogenesis of Manic-Depressive States," in Klein's, Contributions to Psycho-Analysis, p.299.
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