A cool and cloudy morning with a Southerly breeze. The river is a little lower but still splendid.

Freud is asserting that true happiness is sexual satisfaction, and therefore the way to be happy is to engage in behavior that leads one to be sexually—that is, genitally—satisfied. Carl Trueman

A longer ride today. I was going to turn around after 20 km, then I saw a turn off to Yarrie Lake. I thought I would go there and see if the road is sealed all the way to the lake. It turns to dirt about 1 km short of the lake. At that point the wind started to get stronger and it was hard coming home. 😀

Freud has, in fact, provided the West with a compelling myth—not in the sense of a narrative that everybody knows is false but in the sense of a basic idea by which we can understand the world around us, regardless of whether it is “true” in the commonsense way of understanding the word. That myth is the idea that sex, in terms of sexual desire and sexual fulfillment, is the real key to human existence, to what it means to be human. Carl Trueman

Quite windy this morning. It makes you work that much harder, but still a good ride.

Freud’s fingerprints are all over the Western culture of the last century, from university lecture halls to art galleries to television commercials.  Carl Trueman

Much milder morning, you can almost think spring is near. A nice ride down Jacks Creek and Gun Club Roads

Nevertheless, there is a key subsequent development that is necessary for us to understand if we are to appreciate fully the way our contemporary culture thinks, and that is the move from understanding sex as an activity to seeing it as absolutely fundamental to identity.  Carl Trueman

Cloudy morning today, but that kept the heat in overnight 😊

The social imaginary emerging in the nineteenth century was one that intuitively placed human beings as the sovereigns at the center of a universe to which they could give shape and significance.  Carl Trueman