so, it's supposed to be about some kind of power differential as though somebody is actually taking foucault seriously.

never take foucault seriously.

when i was a kid, the left didn't argue that people with power should use it responsibly, it argued that these power imbalances produce concepts of struggle and that if somebody has power over you, you need to fight them to take that power from them, and then deal with all of the people trying to take it from you. does a lion use it's power over a gazelle responsibly? it's absurdity.

and, if somebody asks you to do something, and you don't want to do it, you don't do it. you don't pretend that they have some kind of magic power over you, and you don't have a choice. this is not reality, it's twilight zone bullshit. what the actual fuck.

but, i should have known that this is what was going on, because this always happens with the foucauldians, they just end up back where burke was at. so, these so-called progressives start waving their foucault around and they just sound like conservatives - because that's what they actually are. and, they just piss me off as badly as any other conservative does, because they're not actually any different than any other conservative is.

this is exactly what my thesis about the christian right and the puritan left coming together is all about. and, foucault himself put the model in place: the iranian revolution, which came together via the same forces. you need to be very careful with burkeanism/foucauldianism. it is not socialism. it is not liberalism. it is a type of hierarchical monarchism that doesn't have any use for individual liberty.

again: i don't know anything about louis ck. but, i don't buy into these conservative theories of power: i think masturbating in front of somebody with their consent is actually perfectly ok. weird, but ok. and, i might suspect that most people are probably reacting not to any kind of harassment, but to the gross factor. and, they should probably just be honest about it.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.