She wishes to stay in bed. She is not interested in the events of the world, or in the events of her friends lives. For example, contempt has us feel our junction with things and persons should be our taking them over and owning them. Women can feel that love, closeness, being joined to someone is equivalent to making him a dominion of one s own, a province that exists to glorify her. In an Aesthetic Realism lesson many years ago, criticizing this tendency in me so that it could change, Mr. Siegel called it psychical imperialism.
Men can have it too.
In both sexes, it is contempt. People think they want friends, love, non-loneliness, but don t know they also don t want these. We can see, then, the Mesopotamian city-states of about 2000 BC as a trembling study in separation and junction. The Aesthetic Answer For us, and for any situation in history, the answer to the junction-separation problem is the aesthetic answer. I cannot comment on Mesopotamia without commenting too on what the United States is doing to the people who now live in that same land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.