As much as I appreciate your style of writing, I can't help but think the poetic flourish has somewhat obscured some underlying logical leaps. Is it really fair to characterize civilization, or capitalism more specifically, as "repressive"? What is the basis for this? Is repression a denial of being able to do what you want? Am I repressed for not being able to piss in a fire? Am I repressed for not being able to murder whomever I please? Am I repressed for being unable to pick up a stone too heavy for me? The physical world applies constraints to our agency. The social world applies them as well. These do not equate to repression. I think this assumption, and subsequently normatively-charged argument, needs to be revisited.
As much as I appreciate your style of writing, I can't help but think the poetic flourish has somewhat obscured some underlying logical leaps. Is it really fair to characterize civilization, or capitalism more specifically, as "repressive"? What is the basis for this? Is repression a denial of being able to do what you want? Am I repressed for not being able to piss in a fire? Am I repressed for not being able to murder whomever I please? Am I repressed for being unable to pick up a stone too heavy for me? The physical world applies constraints to our agency. The social world applies them as well. These do not equate to repression. I think this assumption, and subsequently normatively-charged argument, needs to be revisited.