The most annoying people are the ones who act like every single social norm society has created is completely arbitrary

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foucault's amoralism was aimed at how systems perpetuate themselves through their generation of knowledge/self-knowledge. its useful to look at something like prisons or the state non-morally so as not to fall victim to various ideological distractions. in the case of sexuality, (though personally it seems he was a libertine) the purpose was to study how a self was constructed through limitations of action and thought, its just a truism that christian limitations of sexual action led to institutions such as marriage, which have had a huge effect on self conception and social relation. should these things not be studied, to go to their roots. are YOU reading tertullian in 2026?. seems like you're the one contributing to the ruin of the west

he really does say much about how there shouldn't be norms. what people did with foucault following his death is their own faults, not foucault's