Moreover, I also want to say here that the experience of the liberation of endogamous kinship libido "married within" one's psyche to one childhood image of one's own mom involves a kind of deep psychological rebirth within one's psyche.
I have discussed this interpretation of the ubiquitous mom-son porn videos that are available free on the internet is my OEN article "On Interpreting the Ubiquitous Mom-Son Porn on the Internet" (dated December 19, 2024).
Finally, I also want to spell out explicitly here that even though many other men of a certain age can experience the liberation of endogamous kindship libido "married within" their own psyches to the early childhood images of their own moms (or of the early childhood images of their mother-substitutes), not all men of a certain age might experience.
Men who are misogynists, such as Trump and his male MAGA supporters, are not going to experience the liberation of endogamous kinship libido "married within" their psyches.
Thus far in President Trump's second term as president of the United States, he has been a topsy-turvy president. Tragically, many of my fellow Americans who voted for Trump on November 5, 2024, have continued to support his topsy-turvy presidency - they have not yet broken ranks with him. However, I suspect that the cumulative effects of his topsy-turvy presidency will sooner or later prompt some of my fellow Americans who voted for him in the 2024 presidential election to break ranks with him and turn against him. So, yes, I continue to see my fellow Americans who voted for Trump in last November's presidential election as the biggest problem in our contemporary American politics. No doubt in my mind about that.
Nevertheless, in my 28,800-word 665th OEN article, I argued that American politics is downstream from American culture. I still maintain this thesis. Yes, it would indeed be wonderful to eliminate the tragic anti-body heritage of Christianity from American culture today. No doubt Trump's misogyny and the misogyny of his many male MAGA supporters is a key aspect of the tragic anti-body heritage of Christianity that is still pervasive in our contemporary American culture today. Yes, I believe that it is still important to call out misogyny and to single out various cultural expressions of misogyny that are still pervasive in American culture today.
However, because I maintain the thesis that American politics is downstream from American culture, I also maintain that many more American men today of a certain age need to experience what I have been describing as the personal liberation of endogamous kinship libido "married within" their psyches to their early childhood image of their own moms (or their mother-figures).
Now, because American politics today is dominated by two major political parties, the Republican Party under Trump and the Democratic Party, we Americans today need to look at Democratic men of a certain age to spearhead the individual personal change that will be necessary to change American culture today significantly - by themselves experiencing the liberation of endogamous kinship libido "married within" their psyches to their early childhood image of their own moms (or their mother-figures).
That's a tall order for changing American culture today! No doubt about that! However, I see no other way that the Democratic Party today can hope to change American culture today significantly - significantly enough to effectively combat and counter the pervasive anti-body Christian heritage in American culture and American politics today.
But I have now here set forth my formula about how Democratic American men of a certain age need to change personally in order to change American culture today significantly - and my formula for them to change significantly does not explicitly involve having them embrace the philosophical life that Socrates exemplified for us in his life in ancient Athens.
But in Agnes Callard's new 2025 book Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life, she sets out the case for a philosophical life. Good for her! Now, because Agnes Callard is a woman, we may interpret her case for a philosophical life as perhaps best directed to American women who have emancipated themselves from misogyny as well as from the tragic anti-body heritage of Christianity.
No, this is not how Agnes Callard sees herself directing her case for a philosophical life in her new 2025 book. But this is how I interpret her case for a philosophical life for American women today - as one American woman speaking to other American women.
Ah, but don't American women of a certain age also need to experience the liberation of endogamous kinship libido "married within" their psyches to their childhood image of their own moms (or mother-figures), just as American men of a certain age do? Yes, of course, they do.
Ah, but does living a philosophical life prevent women or men of a certain age from experiencing liberation from endogamous kinship libido "married within" their psyches to their early childhood image of their own moms (or mother-figures? No.
But does living a philosophical life help women or men of a certain age experience liberation from endogamous kinship libido "married within" their psyches to their childhood image of their own moms (or mother-figures)? No.
In short, I have no reason to quarrel here with Agnes Callard about her case for living a philosophical life.
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