Survivor & Philosophy

Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Psilocybin
from January 1, 1989 to December 31, 2019

Accepted for Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, Data Visualization at City University of New York, September 2020
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Posted on April 6, 2020January 22, 2021 by survivor_philosophy

Michele and Wendell dated outside the game and apparently broke up badly. They talk about the strangeness of being together inside the game now, but they chose to play this season knowing that the other one would be there. This isn’t like an episode of “This Is Your Life” where random people from your past are sprung on unsuspecting players.

Michele and Wendell talk about whether their physical intimacy will impact how they play the game together. Will they be able to keep the game separate from their past romance? This issue comes up in regular society as well. Can romantic partners have “normal” interactions after the romance is over, as if the romance had never occurred? Some people claim this shouldn’t be difficult, and that they and others have been able to do it. I certainly can’t speak for everyone’s experiences, but I find that many people seem to be deluding themselves when they think that all romantic aftereffects can be excised. The importance of sex and intimacy in animal minds seems too strong to not have some consequences.

Many of these people seem to base their claim on a belief that sex and physical intimacy are “really” just like any other activity that people can do together. That emotions of jealousy, love, or guilt don’t have to be associated with sex, and that they don’t feel those emotions about sex themselves. However, most of these people are clearly not telling the truth. To anyone who makes this claim, I simply ask: “So you don’t think sexual assault is different from other types of assault?” I suspect that almost none of these people would agree with that, which means that they don’t actually think sex and physical intimacy are the same as any other activity. They’re just rationalizing their own sexual choices because they don’t like feeling bad about themselves. Although I suppose in that respect, sex really is just like any other activity.

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