1st day of class
Can the perverse exist without the normative?
Is the normative an impossible ideal, perversity is relative. - perversity is a conflicted category.
Is normality an ideal that can never be attained?
Art is like being perpetual children - out cast because of that.
General stereotype of artists doing their art for fun; it's not considered a job. Science is always taken seriously.
serial killer cult - interesting; in this TV show I watch, "Elementary", Sherlock Holmes keeps up correspondence with Moriarty despite the horrible things she's done.
Does the perverse disrupt narrative pleasure?
do romance novels disclose "perverted" woman's world - maybe like "Fifty Shades of Grey" ?
Now there are two groups, one of anarchy, the other of normality? - two ends of spectrum.
stuck between a rock and a hard place - always in a state of perversion; people will always criticize one side or the other. Too normal implies too conservative. Too different implies perversion of some type.
Like professors who don't dress smartly all the time - some people will love that, some people won't.
Or adults who enjoy watching "kid" movies, enjoy "kid food"are not taken seriously or are frowned upon. Adults are expected to show this serious image. For example, in an art exhibit of my mother's, we were eating Nutella and this woman came up and said "Only kids eat Nutella".....! Is doing "kid" stuff as an adult a perversion, a Peter Pan syndrome, or a way of keeping the child inside of us alive?
Laziness vs. productivity
too much of this: sloth too much of that: workaholic.
we need to dose each when presenting image of oneself.
Is shame a part of fun? Like keeping diaries or confession posts?
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