On Jul 29, 2006, at 11:41 AM, Doyle Saylor wrote:
One hundred years ago 'free love' was the socialist sort of tangent to conventional bourgeois love. Capitalism took over that with their big media. The lonely aspects of
I've long figured that "free love", as originally expressed by Wilhelm Reich, was sex without cultural, religious or social guilt. He complained later in his life that others bastardized what he meant by "free love" and cheapened it. Reich believed that just as the body develops "character armor" -- tensions, knots, tics, etc. that are based in pscho-somatic processes -- so, too, social, religious and political cultures develop kinks and pockets of poisons that work against their well-being. In the lead up to Hitler's madness, "free love" reached a peak of sorts. Reich fled Germany in horror. He was later killed in the USA (for all effective purposes) by the Food and Drug Administration who imprisoned him for his refusal to explain his theories to a court. His screed, :isten, Little Man" addressed many of these issues succinctly. Dan
