Infidelity
Come on. We've all done it. Haven't we? Can you dig free love and condemn infidelity in the same breathe? Is it a fact of life?
posted by Alp at Sunday, May 21, 2006
21 May 2006
About this
Something unusual was happening in SW Wales when I was a child – subcultures, social experiments, naked hippies dancing around maypoles. I'm researching a PhD project into remembrances of things past - how our sense of the past informs our sense of self. This enquiry presumes that the past is not fixed, rather it is partly constructed through a shared or collective consciousness, which is why I’m inviting you now to share your memories of certain events, moments, and ideas. A childhood in Wales gave a lot of us a unique experience and a lot of the ‘hippy’ kids, I think, have a wonderfully insightful way of perceiving and interacting with the world. But we also have a very different past from many of our peers, and some ‘site specific’ hang-ups! There were some amazingly off-the-wall characters around and some pretty weird shit happened. I’d like to know which bits you remember, in words and photos. Some of this stuff might be sensitive, so if you are posting photos or texts or relevant transcripts or notes or poems or songs (you could scan them or send them to me ‘snail-mail’ – I will be very careful) onto this weblog please be aware of that, and do so with an open mind.Previous Posts
2 Comments:
Damn, a perfectly good rant on infidelity has just got wiped! Bastard peiriant.
No we haven't actually, but infidelity is very different from free love which has at its core the necessity for honesty (in advance) about sexual relationships with multiple partners, whereas infidelity is about the betrayal of a monogamous relationship. For all its problems when it comes down to it, free love is at least a great deal more respectful and idealistic than the jaded and cynical acceptance - even championing - of infidelity which is so commonly put forward to defend basically lazy and selfish sexual and emotional behaviour. Right, where's the nearest conservative party office, I think I'd better go join.
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