[quote=“Magnus Anderson”]
If you think that choosing the path of suffering automatically equals masochism then that reveals you are a hedonist for only hedonists think that every path of suffering is masochism.[/quote
True, and by default, every overwrought choice, as connected to pleasure, ties into a self referential schema, where there occurs a duplex; a cutting of feeling into perception, a simultaneity of both negative-pain and positive- pleasure aspects. This happens as an escape vehicle, where too much hedonism=pleasure flows off as excess=pain. The visual distortion is caused by the non hedonistic bravura splitting from the hedonistic, and the resulting aberration is of two types- the bravura is the excessive pleasure informing into its painful aspect, it’s realization of the overinflated ideal of it’s self referentiality. Bravura, or showmanship is the result, and this show is deemed at first-a pretty good ploy, only later, much later, does it show some utility,
Such as what they call a sublimation.
This is an understatement to extreme types, where power of the will has been enhanced to the limit.
The broad strokes of inquiery into the pleasure of self inflicted pain does not give the mechanics of it justice.
What gives masochism it’s power?
The overcoming of pleasure, by the strengthening of the will, to deny the absolute, or the near perfect.
It is basic vanity-:-:-:-jeoulosy, which tries to deny natural selection.
A recompense: masochism is extremely myopic even the least genetically diminutive link, given enough generational extension , can overcome this will , by seeing the large picture, the tree of life, before whose altar it’s obliged to prostrate.
It is a gross transcendent mistake, and here the inversion from will to power to power to will.
The overcoming has been traditionally over-prescribed, and as the twilight of the gods left barren that which man has denied, only waste and futility appear.
The Grand Sheme has been reduced to simplistic formulae, such as inscribed in the formula :Hedonism is implicit in masochism.
The baby steps of a masochist can not be advised on such a broad meta high way, since it prescribes a visual tacticity based on some unexplored aberration of a longed for object.
The expanse of a non-myopic visual aesthetic based on their own rules, of forward, not backward looking laws of proportion, depth, background, object, and distance all have to conjoin, to meet at some advantageous horizon, in order to make sense.