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@hermit @Metamedia @orangelantern > actually find the Greek conflation of sexual instruction with philosophical instruction wholesome.
pederasty 👍
its 100% fascinsting how the exact structure of older man and younger boy as mentor-student with sex also independently got reinvented in japan by the samurai and also the buddhists
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@errante @Metamedia @orangelantern Definitely, and just to chime in here: I think "Platonic love" is an oft misunderstood term, because it's used in a modern context to argue for some kind of "higher love" which is non-sexual. In the actual Platonic dialogue people are alluding to, Plato simply posits the presence of a kind of non-sexual and "purely spiritual" love as distinct from a purely sexual and "non-spiritual" love, but then goes on to argue for their potential coexistence and synergy, with the highest form of love being attained through having the two in unison.
Also on a personal level, yeah, thinking about it, the teachers I learned best from were the ones I was attracted to. This DID often take a sexual form. But not always. (For example, despite having no love for Marxism at all, I had deep love for my zealously Marxist english teacher. We used to argue furiously and constantly and I respected his intellectual rigor and passion for his beliefs. I went to see his cringy band play live where he would perform while out of his mind on speed and talk about how we should bomb America.)
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@Metamedia @hermit @orangelantern fascinating. you see that erotic attachment trying to be removed in education contexts nowadays
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@errante @hermit @orangelantern
This is a controversial subject, but I do think there's some truth in that. A contemporary philosopher and psychoanalyst wrote a book about "the erotic of education", and his main argument was that education is best achieved by "admiration" / "attachment" to your teacher. This doesn't have to be sexual in nature (the contrary probably), but there has to be an attachment between the 2 "erotic objects" (he's a psychoanalyst so he uses Freudian/Lacanian terminology)
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@hermit @errante @orangelantern I once had an English teacher (for a brief period of time - she was a supply teacher) who also used to be very politically active. Mega feminist, she used to make video animations of flying vaginas destroying the Whitehouse with laserbeams.
I miss her.
errante
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