Daniel Holliday
Just a guy for now | Publishing every day to Medium
The notion that, in a technologically advanced future, people would go somewhere, in the presence of others, to rape and murder androids seems very antiquated to me. It ignores the internet and it ignores the power of shame
Who Would Actually Go to Westworld?
Jason Concepcion
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Could it not be argued that the sample size we’re drawing from here is just too narrow?
The examples of porn moving from public in the 1970s to private today has happened over a 40 year period, a far smaller period than the period responsible for our inheritance of Christian shame around sex (hundreds of years).
Couldn’t we assume that as once-”deviant” desires are normalised (and religion increasingly lost), shame around these desires recedes? Perhaps the retreat into private spaces is a necessary intermediary (but temporary) step.
