#I just think this is an interesting angle to take with electrochemistry!

[palin-tropos]

all those analyses people make about Harry’s Electrochemistry being more than just wanting drugs and in fact being one of Harry’s most important skills for staying alive are coming to mind as I’m reading this old treatise on anarchist morality by Kropotkin

“One man gets drunk, and every day lowers himself to the condition of a brute because he seeks in liquor the nervous excitement that he cannot obtain from his own nervous system.”

“When a woman […] takes off her own scanty rags to cover another woman who is cold, while she herself shivers on the deck of a vessel, she does so because she would suffer infinitely more in seeing […] a woman starved with cold, than in shivering […] She escapes a pain of which only those who have felt it know the intensity.”

the pursuit of pleasure takes more forms than just wanting food, it is in fact the impetus for being alive

even the insects, he says! eat a leaf yum yum etc. and remember Electrochemistry is the check to pass to be able to interact with the phasmid…

#i’m anarchoposting again #I just think this is an interesting angle to take with electrochemistry! #the treatise is dated and has some Flaws tm but #some things I like about it are acknowledging addiction as a response to a physiological deprivation #and also not treating animals as mechanistic! but acknowledging they also are driven by feelings #this has borne out as true in biological studies