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You're listening to the partially examined life episode 188 part two on the play lysis strata last time

We talked about the difference between the oikos the household and the polis the

Political world and how the Greeks obviously thought that that had something to do with the male and female and

How do those two things map nowadays? Well, I didn't want to spend all our time just making up or recalling

Facts about ancient Greeks

I want us to take advantage of our guests and think about is there anything we can say about feminism more that's

projected out of this or about

Political advocacy the initial question that you had suggested west was the connection between

Erotica and politics like is there the erotic and the erotic and the political not erotic those are two completely different things Mark

That's relationship between porn and the state

Conjures up some nasty images

That's all CNN this morning. Basically Trump Trump is that relationship right there. He's that relationship incarnate or you could say the relationship is metaphorical that the government they fuck you

That's what they do

But yeah, the erotic and the political or the ways in which ones individuality ones individual passions ones desires

And you could even say the pluralism that sort of like stems from that how that fits into the state

I think one of our authors speaks a little bit to that but yeah, I think

Mark's right. It's a good thing for us to free associate on you just mentioned it being whether it was feminist mark

I thought I mean Emily at the end of our discussion last time she I think made the right point that

It doesn't seem to be feminist at all. There's not a feminist resonance in the play

Well, there's a temptation to think of it that way because

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