Part 22 (1/2)

But this equation is part of the broader equation of high expectations defining the illiterate practical experience of self- constitution in a world of a very large scale In this equation, access to pornographic sites on the Internet can indeed appear to some as an issue of freedo outside the platinum and diamond belt of wealth and prosperity partake in the illiterate expression of sexuality as this created global arity, or widely opened the doors to sexual experiraphy, to video, fil seems to address sexuality, moreover, to stimulate it Crime and sex drive theelse All age groups are addressed on their own biological and cultural terious, are involved in the fabric of sex es One million children are forced yearly into the sex market, the majority of them from poor countries People who do not kno to read or write, and who probably never will, live under the seduction of the Calvin Klein label and will ih which they learn about theht not have appropriate shelter, or enough food, buy Madonna videos and indulge in the fantasy that sexual freedom embodies in their particular illiterate expression

Today, huer share a literate notion of the sexual, but display a multitude of attitudes and involve themselves in a variety of experiences, which include the expectation of a common denominator, such as the family used to be Humans tamed their own nature and discovered, at the peak of what seemed to become a collective sense of invulnerability, that there are still points of individual vulnerability Soeneralized heterosexuality-in short, of a return to the safe shores of an idealized erotic experience of the past sexuality, however, always had its bright and dark sides Suffice it to recall the explicit ies in the ruins of Pompeii, or those in Indian and japanese art Soazines, porno shops, Hollywood crap, and Internet sites equal their boldness But people have ed to hide the dark side, or at least what could be construed as such, and to propagate, through literacy, the sublime erotic poes and dances, and everything else testifying to the sublime in love What is new in the context of the civilization of illiteracy is that one side no longer excludes the other To be is to be different, even if the biological equation of only two sexes see more indirect and transitory, human relations affect sexuality and the ability to cope hat is defined as deviant erotic behavior in respect to tradition AIDS will not turn back events that matic context necessary Rather, it will add to the dee between genetic research and the self-perpetuation drive of the species, rationalized in forher levels of efficiency, resources, and human reproduction Such forressions Malthus used, are already tested by various organizations concerned with strategies for avoiding human self-destruction by overpopulation A condo birth; all the pills wo care of one child It should not surprise that japan, committed to all the values of literacy and the sexuality attached to them, is reluctant to adopt the pill

The country has a very low birth rate, so low that its leaders are justified in fearing that soon japan will not have enough people to fuel the econoh production and consumption

Still, japan sees a relation between the pill and the state of eneous fabric on which it relies nobody really doubts that the globality of huh its productive genius probably more than any country, will catch up with it

sexually, the literate japanese are no less daring than the illiterate A more at the cheapest price-in many ways an expression of rape of other people's work and resources-means to exhaust not only the object, but also the subject Rape, one of the eneralized in political and economic rape, projects sexuality and its powerful action even outside the biological realm of human life To want all (especially all at once)in particular At the end of the total sexual experience lies nothing but disappointment for some; for others, the next experience Profoundly subjective, deeply individual, unique and irrepeatable, hu only to the extent that it re individual destiny to that of the species The siht explain why changes si in erotic experience can be identified in the artistic, scientific, or political practice of the civilization of illiteracy Unless we understand the es, ould only leap into a vortex of wild conjecture Family is the part of the experience of human self-constitution in which such implications are most likely to have a profound effect

Fa the Primitive Future

A paradox has developed: homosexuals want to establish faed by society Adults who have children choose to avoid the family contract Well over 30 of the children born in the USA are born out of wedlock In the pragmatic equation of hunification

Co before a television camera after a celebrity divorce trial, an onlooker re a pre-nuptial agreeerated and imprecise (communication bethom-the couple or their representatives?) as this remark probably is, it nevertheless captures soe

Indeed, fareements, mediated by lawyers and financial consultants The risk of farated in the calculations establishi+ng the viability of the e

Children are part of the calculation- emotional effects-as are the odds for illness, disability, and liabilities, such as living parents and siblings who ations due to previousaether reveals that once the agreeht hours a week, which is well below the ti television-almost seven hours a day-or devoted to physical exercise If surfing the Net is part of the needs'

life, there is even less dialogue

Typically, both partners in the e work, and this affects other aspects of faue When children arrive, the tiressively froh school It is reported that on the average, youngsters in the USA get their parents' attention for less than four hours a week In soht to ten hours

On the Asian sub-continent, e of six Statistics show that over a quarter of the Ae never discuss their high school programs, or necessary preparation courses, with their fathers Close to half this ale or not) The saiues, abortion rates, number of partners over one's lifetie of ideas or in common tasks express a condition of the family that reflects the dynamics of today's human practical experiences Over 16 hteen years live with one parent (mainly the mother) Economics (income level, joblessness, opportunity) plays a critical role in the life of the young and of their progenitors

All the changes leading to the civilization of illiteracy affect the experience of faes of the fa to casual relationshi+ps and to for which the experience is exhausted result in increasingly unstable relations and fae Throughout society, clear-cut distinctions betweenreplaced by situation ethics Increased h counselors, lawyers, doctors, and financial planners, explains the new efficiency of the family as short-lived interaction and cooperation The factors matic framework of human existence in which a new kind of interpersonal commitment is made and a new type of family is established, not unlike the short-lived corporations that are exhausted as soon as their product's potential has been reached

In this prag back to the civilization of literacy, with its hierarchy and central authority and the promise of stability and security, are considered the only alternative to the new situation of the family The people who consciously seek this alternative discover that the family is bound by relatively loose connections and that reciprocally advantageous distributed tasks replace faue coue es of expediency, undertaken to solve some difficulty-such as resident status in soe, better chances at a career- illustrate the tendency

Once the conditions for the perpetuation and disseranted, at the current globally integrated scale of hues fundamentally Even the notion of family is questioned

Famatic framework afforded by literacy, is replaced by individual autonoreater than the one feasible at the scale characteristic of agricultural or industrial economy, presents itself to adults and children in their practical experiences of self-constitution nobody escapes the te in the multiple of choices that are characteristic of the civilization of illiteracy

There are many facets to what is called family The concept displays a

sexual instincts manifested as attraction, associated with the awareness of the consequence of reproduction,what it took to establish a family At the same level of importance is the need to establish a viable unity of econonificance, a fraious and political entities, for carrying out obligations significant to the community These, and a number of additional elee of infor survival and continuity through cooperation and understanding with other fahtly connected The nature of this interconnectedness is probably a iven socio- historical circuetherness

Dictionaries point to the broaderin a household-with the root of the word extending to all the servants, as well as to blood relations and descendants of the sa fro of interconnectedness, ents of connection, aeneral, and literacy, in particular, becoe from animal-like sexual drive to the formation of family; much, too, about the h which families were established and maintained The history of the human family captures the nature of the relations between , near and distant kin, and between generations Natural aspects of production and reproduction, and cultural, social, political, and ethnic eleh the family Its reality extends even to the area of interdependencies between the language of individuals constituting fae of the coed Whether fematic context afforded, the faround of need and flux It is another constitutive practical experience involving the projection of individual biological characteristics in the context of life and work, an experience that progressively extended beyond biology into its own domain of expectations and values, and finally into its own effectiveness

In search of a faical structure is maintained by so to survival (the economy of faical aspects), and ways of interacting with the extended family and with other families (social aspects) But beyond this, little else can be stated without causing controversy

Within each family, there is a maternal and a paternal line In soether feed the children, introduce them to survival tactics, and train their family instincts In other cases, only one parent assumes these functions The ih new faical research reports in detail how faoal is to acquire brothers-in-laill join the woaret Mead described the rule of not e, this rule has a normative quality Nevertheless, in some tribes in Kenya, enee expressing this strategy is estive than imperative Research also documents variations from the nuclear model The Nayar, a population in India, consecrates a fa to the maternal line; fathers visit The woman can have aschildren reflects this condition Rules established over tie is the only form of protection and fulfillh man to woman ratio; uxorilocation (the new couple resides in the wife's home territory), and virilocation (the new couple resides in the husband's home territory)

The scale at which family self-constitution takes place affects its effectiveness When this scale reaches a certain threshold or critical size, structural changes take place The family, in its various ees in the hues docue, to the paintings at Sefar (Tassili des Ajjer, 4th century BCE), and to many other subsequent fore in family size, the nature of family hierarchy, inheritance mechanisms, restrictions and prohibitions (incest foree in the faes The testimony extends to cemeteries: It matters who is buried hom or close to wholottochronology; to contracts Marriage contracts, such as the cuneifor the sale of land, in which the family tree of the sellers is reproduced as testiht on the evolution of family When Aristotle stated ”Each city is e of stabilized family relations had been reached, well adapted to the stabilizing pragmatic fra