It is very important to understand this thing called pleasure. There is a great deal to learn, because all our sensory reactions, all the values that we have created, all the demands - the so-called self-sacrifice, the denial, the acceptance - are based on this extraordinary thing, a refined or a crude form of pleasure. We commit ourselves to various activities - as Communists, as socialists or what you will - on this basis, because we think that by identifying ourselves with a particular activity, with a particular idea, with a particular pattern of life, we shall have greater pleasure, we shall derive a greater benefit; and that value, that benefit is based on the identification of ourselves with a particular form of activity as pleasure. JK
Posted on: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 09:07:32 +0000