Nonetheless, he was relieved that the condoms in the Arts Block were no longer politicised. There was no need for sex and death to be linked fatalistically on that level.
Nothing profound, but delightful in its presentation.
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Carnivorous Cow had been reaading bits of Sagan's chapter on Sex and Death aloud to Gramsci, revelling in his turn of phrase, his linking of the Adam and Eve story with the "sex and death" motif, and wondering why he didn't also footnote Freud's "Eros and Thanatos" in that regard. Gramsci was rather less impressed - in his species, sex and death were very directly linked, with the female devouring the male once she had been sexually sated. He didn't need some dead American astronomer to point the link out to him. Nonetheless, he was relieved that the condoms in the Arts Block were no longer politicised. There was no need for sex and death to be linked fatalistically on that level. Essentially, the argument is that simple reproduction through binary fission does not "kill" the organism - it continues to live, in the successive generations, unless something else kills it. When sexual reproduction enters the picture, however, the parent organism becomes redundant, and dies. Sometimes immediately - many insects, for example, mate, lay their eggs and perish; sometimes not, allowing them to breed several times, nurture and raise the young, invest beyond the programming contained in their DNA.
Nothing profound, but delightful in its presentation.
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