Let's say that I have the sex drive of a bonobo, meaning that I feel like I should have sex very frequently with different women. This is completely incompatible with society within our civilization. Even for the most meaningless of coitus, several complex courting systems, not to mention logistics, are in place to make this task difficult and time-consuming, even without counting other responsibilities such as sustinence, i.e. work. Therefore to make this situation possible - having sex with various women almost daily at any time required - requires itself a mamoth-size enterprise of social activities, a very intellectual task, not only of fostering social appeal but of maintenance: keeping everone out of their way, investing on each woman somewaht whilst fishing constantly for new prospects. Which is an interesting paradox - that so much high-level human brain activity would need to be expended to fullfill a low-level basic need. Genius slave to the primal. And for what? Happiness it would seem, low-level happiness at least, on the level of nourishment and shelter. The problem is that, according to the hierarchy of needs, a fulfilled lower-level class of emotions is a necessary base for higher-level activities culminating in self realization, so they say.
So, society is right? As an intellectual being can you command yourself to bypass the need for primal sustinence to focus on the ultimate end, or assume that true high-level experience is reliant on a solid base, whose search may consume all of your time forgoing the original abstract goal?
The answer is simple then, I guess. Find a high-paying job to pay all the prostitutes and travels you want/need and if you nourish your mind enough, enlightenment will come. Well doesn't this sound fishy?
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