marginalium noun

the notes one makes in the margins.

A short note on

the horizon of desire

October 11, 2024

source: longreads.com

by Dorian Minors

I did brain science at Cambridge. Now I'm a behaviour science professor. Read my shit.

The Horizon Of Desire. Thoughtful piece on the benefits gained out of our recent fraught attempts at developing new narratives around sex and consent. Many complain that e.g. the #me too movement went ‘too far’, and maybe it did lead to certain injustices. But this piece articulates nicely how pendulum swinging has its place. And in fact, hints at my own cynicism that pendulum swinging is the only way anything ever really changes.

If you don’t do the thinking, the thinking will be done for you.

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