Déjà Poo Nr.2 – “How to screw up Relationships”

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“If a prostitute and a ruthless businessman can fall in love, then …. anyone can”

- (girl in “friends with benefits” about the movie “Pretty woman“)

A few months ago I have wondered about some people`s capacities to be selfish hypocrites and their being content with hurting  others and themselves and how abusive situations can be, if a certain disrespect and transgressions of boundaries is immanent. I always love to read this particular feature from Elise Matthesen, who wrote a perfectly cynical and funny essay on how to have a surefire sabotage tactic to ruin relationships. I copied and quoted it here and hope you do enjoy. It makes me laugh, and also startles me, because, I thought some things can`t possibly happen – ever – in interactions between people in real life. For example lying about being in a relationship or living together with someone, who they actually are in a relationship with ( *gasp for air in shock*)

Sometimes in Life things like this happen, and best is to take them with a certain cynical  sarcasm and analytical humour like Vienna escorts like me usually do have in this kind of context…  Seems there are a lot of experiences  one thinks to be able to  avoid with certain tactics, such as asking questions and expecting honest answers ;-) . But other than shorten the time you are exposed to poisonous characters like this with certain techniques and a lot of life experiences on smelling Bullshit in its early stages, it is not possible to avoid situations like these completely. Have fun reading Elise`s fantastic essay, that made me have a great Déjà Poo 2 (Def.: “The feeling that you`ve heard this crap before …”).

How to Fuck Up a Relationship (Polyamory or Monogamy this applies to all)

- by Elise Matthesen

The preceding list of answers to questions about polyamory is not a guide to how to have a working polyamorous relationship, although we have strong anecdotal evidence that the tools mentioned are useful in all sorts of relationships, mono and poly. We do, however, have the following guide of carefully tested methods for making mistakes in polyamorous relationships. With proper application and ingenuity, these methods may impair or destroy monogamous relationships as well; they’re truly multipurpose tools. We post this listing for your consideration; no liability expressed or implied.

1. Lie. This is basic and effective. To maximize bad results, lie about something important to the other person(s) and arrange to be caught in the lie in such a way as to produce maximum shock. Additional stress points awarded for keeping the lie going for a while before discovery, which increases the disorientation and sense of betrayal in the deceived person(s). Lying about sex gets double points. Lying about being married gets triple f***-up points. Creative lies of omission (i.e. “not telling”) with fancy rationalizations and condescension get gold stars.

2. Avoid self-knowledge. This is more elegant than strategy 1, as it combines a bold sweep of denial with sorties of distraction aimed at oneself. This tactic is most effective when combined with tactics 3 and 4. Self-destructive or addictive behaviour has also been found very effective in avoiding self-knowledge by our researchers. When combined with an endearing attitude of helplessness, this strategy has been proven efficacious in attracting “rescuers” or “white knights” on whom one can then practice strategies 4 and 3, in that order.

3. Blame the other person(s). If anything went wrong, hey, it must be their fault, right? This eliminates the need for messy things like communication and negotiation, which can be embarrassing, particularly if one is using strategy 2.

4. Disclaim responsibility. This is a little more complex than strategy 3, and often includes what is referred to as “co-dependency”. The classic way to play this strategy is to cater to the partner(s) involved while repressing one’s own desires and questions. This allows a good head of resentment to build up, and one can justify anger by saying one has done so *much* for one’s partner(s) and gets no thanks, etc. In its most refined state, this strategy makes the other person(s) responsible for setting the direction, pace and content of the relationship, for which one can them blame them if one’s own expectations or needs are not met. Using strategy 2 to avoid knowledge of these expectations and needs gets double points.

5. Push. This is an art, albeit a crude one. When augmented with strategy 6, pushing can achieve spectacular negative results in even a short time. Remember, when pushing, only *your* satisfaction counts! It’s a dog eat dog world, and you’re a pit bull. Emotional and mental bullying can be as satisfying as old-fashioned physical coercion, and not nearly as easily prosecutable.

6. Play on insecurity. This is an old favorite. Using sexual insecurity as a weapon and combining this with strategy 5 is a four-star winner. Attempting to control one’s partner(s) by manipulating them through their insecurities is a sure-fire f***-up tactic. It’s so much more delicate than simply beating them up, too, though the resultant emotional damage can be remarkably similar.

7. Avoid intimacy. This may seem paradoxical; after all, we’re talking about getting up-close and personal with as many hot bi babes — er, ahem — we’re discussing achieving satisfying close relationships with a number of people, right? The trick of avoiding intimacy can be performed in several ways, but the easiest is to confuse intimacy with “rubbing slippery bits together”. Substitute the words “sex” and “love” for each other often in conversations. Repeat the mantra, “If you loved me, you’d know what I want.” Practice strategy 8 assiduously, supplementing it with strategy 2. According to the needs of the moment, figure out whether action or words are more likely to be ambiguous or misconstrued, and go with what gives you the most plausible deniability later. Some exceptionally talented individuals manage to give the impression of being intimate while successfully remaining stone-cold. Study sales techniques for pointers. People with good “lines” fall into this category, especially if the lines include explanations of how they truly *value* the other person.

8. Don’t talk. Talking has been known to lead to communication if practiced carelessly. Communication will seriously impair your f***-up progress, and in certain cases will halt or reverse it entirely. If you *must* talk, use clichés and quotations from popular songs as much as possible, or fall back on strategy number 1. If all else fails, make a safer-sex agreement with your partner(s) and then break it, contracting a communicable disease about which you do not then tell them. Double points for avoiding all discussion or negotiation of sexual matters entirely so that the “agreement” is wishful thinking and completely deniable. For a “coup de grâce”, ad strategy 6 and tell them it wouldn’t have happened if they had been satisfying you like they were supposed to.

9. For the ultimate metaf***-up, remain technically faithful to your partner while breaking the spirit of whatever agreement you have whenever possible, keeping this knowledge bottled up to ensure maximum fear, shame and resentment. Some people win the grand prize with the “figleaf-and-stinging-nettle” cluster for self-inflicted suffering and wasted potential by managing to keep this strategy up until death do them part, concealing from their spouse the fact that they have been shamming happiness all these years.

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Déjà Poo Nr.1 – “Valley of Deception feat. by Delusions of Grandeur”

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“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education” – G. B. Shaw

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Some escorts are obviously not capable of using their own brain when trying to market their overly narcissistic business on escort blogs. And then have the “decency” at the same time to arrogantly finger point at other escorts code of conduct at the same time with a derogatory “holier than thou” attitude   with the content of  said copy-pasted private emails of mine.  That is certainly some way to present delusions of grandeur to the world ;-)

Certainly, strictly speaking there is nothing wrong with buying a marketing manager or a coach or asking for other people`s opinions. But in the case that happened to me, it is especially cynical and cold-hearted lacking any form of empathy or real understanding, because my opinion was delivered to the escort in question to contradict and criticise hers. And it was written in a private mail, who – by the way – are copyright protected. Neither was I hired as Marketing Strategist or was I asked for permission, before the content including its ideas and reflections on my very personal experiences were exploited by her for the gain of financial benefits on an escort blog visible by the whole wide world. That is very ruthless indeed . Here are some details to clarify:

My opinions within these private mails  - not meant to be published in the world-wide web for financial gain – that were copy-pasted, were about how I was considering to never have a private affair with a married man again, because I feel that married people, who secretly cheat on their wives should pay escorts, because they cannot have “real relationships” that go both ways when making demands. Plus, it is more respectful to the boundaries the usual monogamous marriage presents, and a code of conduct that happens since centuries. Escorts and mistresses are meant to stabilize and support marriages. I was very young and polyamorous, so I was not thinking in terms of monogamy when doing such things, and got punished severely by the consequences of this ex-lover of mine outing me to his wife and as a result  I suddenly was interpreted and turned into a bad home wrecker, and a bad witch that washes men`s brain with philosophies of polyamory.  My intentions were never to harm a marriage, since my code of conduct is polyamory, nor did I ever ask said ex-lover to out me to his wife. I was respectful of the boundaries we agreed on, which was me  being poly, and him being married.I never considered his marriage to be any of my business, nor did I expect from him to consider my choices in life to be any of his business. We had a relationships on certain points of connections in our philosophies, that were common grounds for both of our relationship choices. But my Tolerance and Respect had a bad ending for me, after this guy chose to out me to his wife and family which has taught me a profound lesson in life. So I came to the conclusion that a poly / mono  combo never works outside the realms of escorting because of the different set of values and hierarchies presented, that will always make at least one person feel underappreciated, no matter how you toss and turn it.

I said to her in that Email that I feel like a victim of a monogamous marriage and should not have seen said guy for free, and that – generally speaking – married men are taking advantage of women, if they degrade them to be secret lovers, who are second class citizens in terms of ethical values. Second class citizens are people with inferior rights in legal terms and codes of conduct in society. What I learned from this episode in my life was, that , for the demands of secrecy people need to hire escorts, and that is what people pay for when they do indeed hire escorts. That is a proper code of conduct and makes you a first class citizen with rights to get paid for a service such as  psychotherapists have. Unlike a second class citizen, who needs to be in hiding and has no right to make any demands, other than step into the niche, that two other people create that share a full life together. A life that sometimes brings them closer together, and sometimes further apart emotionally. But it`s a fulfilling life and any marriage or long-term relationship comes with certain intricacies. To break it up because someone comes along with the so-called New Relationship Energy is cruel and ridiculous. There is a reason why secret lovers change and wives don`t. It`s about the essence of “new”. Anyone seeing someone for a few years does not have to deal with the same intricacies concerning a relationship that already lasts for decades. Be it good or bad or both of it in intertwining terms, like it happens naturally in long-term relationships, where people sometimes are closer and sometimes are more distant.

Money exchanged for services is also what you do when you hire a lawyers or  psychotherapists. Someone just doesn`t expect to get involved in their lives and have a fully responsible two-way relationship, instead just parts of relationships get delivered and are possible. And that is mostly all that is possible when interacting with people, whose intricacies in life require a certain amount of flexibility when it comes to time and legitimacy. Because what happened to me was that I got stabbed in the back for being loyal,  insulted for being polyamorous, insulted for being an escort and degraded to a flake of someone elses life, when everyone started to insult my choices in life and present to me on why I only deserve to be treated like a second class citizen. And that is why I felt like a victim! 

Said escort – however –  thinks of herself to be better than the wives, because that is her narrow-minded explanation on why they need to even be screwing her and entertaining relationships with her on the side –  and that married men only stay with their wives because their wives need them. Really?  And that she thinks of herself as the best thing sexually that can ever happen to some married guys and she cannot understand how they simply don`t divorce their wives of thirty-years for someone as good as she thinks she is sexually, intelligence-wise and overall personality-wise, and replace their wives with someone like her. According to her, her  married-clients-turned-boyfriends won`t find someone “more intelligent” than her, because  escorts are usually not intelligent – with her – of course – being the great exception from that rule. Plus, she thinks she does look way more beautiful than the wives, who “can`t give it to their men”, and in addition are thirty years older than her, looking plain and boring. At the same time she thinks of herself as way more mature than other women her age (That means her being in her Late-Twenties!! Welcome to delusions of grandeur!) Again, who are the people she compares herself to? Her girlfriends? Or how can anyone claiming to have seen a university from the inside and actually really studied come to such idiotic conclusions in times of Sir Karl Popper and the empirical falsification process? (Given that, I assume once she reaches her thirties, any twentysomething will be more mature than her …. )  

Relationships most of the time change, evolve, get stuck sometimes, take a downside and then end in bliss again or in separation. People grow together, grow apart, grow together on different levels and sometimes are closer and sometimes are more distant to each other. That is an evolvement within any long-term relationship something a woman in her late twenties can hardly have experienced herself, let alone proper understand, because they are simply too immature and too young for that kind of experience! How can you be in your late twenties and have any idea of how relationships work that are existing since longer than you`re born? Said escort also has the habit of comparing sexual experiences and physical looks on a sliding scale from 1 to 10, with of course giving herself the 10 in every occasion (who would have guessed her giving herself a 10? No shit? Would have been interesting if she gave herself a 3 on this scale, indeed….But a 10? How boring and predictable….)

I was criticising the opinion described above in a personal Email she decided to make public on her blog , telling her, that sensual experiences can`t be compared and she is acting typically heteronormative by degrading other people`s sexuality and putting it in labels of “good versus bad” sex as if it was a competitive sports activity. In heteronormative terms there are “proper versus improper” ways of having sex. Proper ways mean the standard plain vanilla sex. Improper ways are – for example – being a sex worker, having sex without love, sex without orgasm, no sex at all, et cetera et cetera …. And that trying to play games by manipulating married guys to try to get them to divorce by depriving them of attention are the kind of games, that waste people`s time and don`t go anywhere.

I tried to explain to her , that with her derogatory attitude she supports heteronormativity and plays games, that usually lead nowhere, except wasting precious time of life. How would she feel if someone judges her like that? And how would she know how intelligent most escorts are? Does she know some?! If yes – Is the talking about the ones she exchanges banners with or the ones she claims to be friends with?! In Austria we have a saying that goes “If you have friends like that, you do not need enemies anymore”. Unfortunately it`s most always narcissistic people who are not really the brightest bulbs on the planet, who feel the need to feed on other people`s pain , so they can think of themselves as important, and in addition make it all about them. Oh wow! Didn`t think that I find the DSM IV so clearly represented. Some narcissists, particularly lacking any form of  human empathy, even have the cruelty to  copy other people`s intellectual property based on said tragedies, for business conducts and the gain of money. Nothing new here.

What I haven`t witnessed before is someone stealing my exact words and experiences I have lived through and experienced by living a life outside heteronormativity – with all it´s consequences, consequences I used to reflect on mistakes made, and how to avoid them in the future – and having the guts to use that to attract potential escort clients by pretending these are HER thoughts, reflections, conclusions and writings – while actually holding completely different opinions in reality and looking down on other escorts business conduct at the same time – using my exact words to criticise another escort at the same time! That is the utmost of frivolity and cruelty and shameless.

So, what exactly does this self-proclaimed most intelligent of all escorts do? She copy pastes my opinion on some  USA escort blog  board, stating on how she always felt like a victim when she does not charge money for sex, and criticising some other USA escorts behaviour  with MY words to her,  on how she – suddenly – feels sensual experiences can`t be compared and the games this other  US-based escort plays with her clients are typical for heteronormative games to play, and how she does not understand on how someone can act like this. Seriously? Yes, seriously! I shit you not!

Additionally, for someone who states on her homepage that she likes to indulge in “guilty pleasures”, it is very naïve and not well understood to actually use the word heteronormativity when criticising other escorts. Because only someone who participates in heteronormative judgements and standards within their escort activity would find an activity like  pleasure to be something that could be judged as “guilty” in certain contexts – aka heteronormative and contexts. A contrast to this idea of guilty pleasures has been set by the “Sex Positive Movement”, for example, which promotes all kinds of pleasures to be judged as good. Some should at least get facts right when using criteria to brag about themselves! There are people out there, who actively fight for sexpositivism, against heteronormative laws, and then some brainless hypocrites, that lives in exactly these set boundaries of heteronormativity decorate themselves with the outcome of said hard work? Seriously? Some people don`t stop short of condescending arrogance like that! Unbelievably!

So, now I  clarify and present a precise analysis of my point about the other escort that got judged by her:  She bashes another escort  by lecturing this escort that her codes of conduct are heteronormative games best avoided within escorting, and on how she sees herself as so much better than that, because she does not need to play games like that (sic! ) to attract and keep clients. And all that while playing these same heteronormative games within her escort identity  using etymological  Meta-codes of heteronormativity in her choice of semantics   on her escort page (sic!) is moronic and hypocritical and very snaky indeed. Some people who speak with split tongues are not even smart enough to disguise their hypocrisy properly. Well, someone doesn`t need to be a Niklas Luhmann and de-code sociological propositions within  semantics to understand which part of the sociological continuum within cultures  the judging of a certain form of pleasure as “guilty” refers to : Namely heteronormative codes of conduct, not – for example – sexpositive codes of conduct! So, her own judgement of her work as an escort – again , she likes to indulge in “guilty pleasures” – is heteronormative. So she has no right to bash another escort for acting within these same sets of values and hence playing heteronormative “games” (Eric Berne) when conducting her business. And specially not with my words – because before she heard said terminus technicus from me, she did not even know about it. (And I am very certain she also did not know the book of Eric Berne, which I was referring to, when I talked about people playing games within relationships, as well. She probably just thought it sounds cool enough to parrot and copy paste)

Granted, she did not even understand a single word I said,  let alone live up to her braggadocious copyright infringement and impersonation of other escorts, because no one charges for sex, to say the least. Escorts usually charge for secrecy. And I felt treated like an escort by this married man, because I was a secret, and not legitimate, and I would not do that anymore for free. That was the point of my victim – theory. No one needs to pay for sex, because anyone can go to get sex for free anywhere! It is just – if you are bound within the intricacies of a lifelong marriage on monogamous terms, you can`t usually enter a secondary relationship without doing serious damage to at least someone down the road.  That is where Amour Fou`s in paid agreements fall in place. That was MY point when I tried to explain this to “Miss Delusional Inflated Sense of Self”. But lacking the brain she requires her “below 45 clients” to have, she just misunderstood my notion. So she went ahead and wrote some wannabe Anais Nin – story telling the never ending universe via the world-wide web that she always felt like a victim when she did not charge for sex…. (I wonder how her clients feel, then? Maybe like victims, too, because they need to pay her ?…  ) 

Plus , by trying to impersonate other escorts unique lifestyle actually she contradicts the notion that relationships and sensual experiences can`t be compared. Because why try to be like someone else, if she truly understands and believes what she copy-pastes off from my private emails? So , if people copy others, then they should have at least the decency to support a minimum of said notions with their own attitude or lifestyle. But handing out grades from 1 to 10 for sensual experiences, she sees as competitive sport activities and a service delivered to her (while at the same time claiming she does not want to have reviews written about her, because it`s derogatory to judge sensual experiences) and copying other people`s ideas and notions (while claiming she needs “intellectual connection”) is indeed only empty bragging easily proofed by the content of her own homepage.  She actually states that she needs clients between 35 and 45 years of age to proof to her their “intellectual acumen” , because – except for her, of course! – no one is capable of true intellect and emotional maturity before the age of 45 (sic!) and they “have less in common with her”, since they lack the approach to sensual experiences “by enhancing it with intellectual and emotional passions” .  That is certainly one way to reflect on daddy issues ;-) . Well, we saw how the proclaimed intellectual and emotional maturity goes with her, let`s wave hello to infringement of private property like personal emails and copying other people`s reflections and pretending they are her work and her reflective ideas!  Maybe she needs to advice her clients to copy paste something from people above the age of 45 to actually approach a date with her? According to her true intellectual status, that must be sufficient, and a guarantee, that two birds of a feather have found each other to embrace in passion??

Further she states she is someone presenting “quality over quantity” within the world of escorting.  Some escort – again, not her!! – invented that term ages ago and she – again – copy pastes it without probably thinking twice. So not very much of an “intellectual acumen” presented by herself ( Or maybe in her case does that mean she only copy-pastes some emails of other escorts or  her clients opinions and not all of them? Or only talks about the lackadaisical escorts presented by agencies and not the super ones?). No one ever knows what that phrase really means, but she probably thought: “why not take it and put it on my homepage without thinking twice, because it sure does sound like I must be awesome, then – because providing something of quality certainly sounds good”,- right? 

So in her case, she contradicts the notion that she copied from me, by pretending she thinks, same like I do, that sensual experiences cannot be compared.  By putting that phrase, which states a clear comparison of experiences with escorts , and wishing to be judged as “quality much rather than quantity” she does indeed compare sensual experiences. The comparison is set within the dichotomies of “quality and non-quality (aka quantity)” encounters as the two rather restrictive poles of comparison. So, again, do not steal other people`s intellectual property and pretend it’s what YOU think, when your whole attitude and homepage contradicts the stolen content. Not smart. To be exact, utterly stupid if you claim you look for intellectual connections, and wish that everyone below the age of 45 writes to her some proof that they are capable of producing “intellectual acumen”. Oh wow!

Again, some people are no Einstein`s and generally speaking there is nothing wrong with being utterly stupid and lacking even the smallest of brain capacity to do anything else than parrot other people`s opinion (preferably clients and other escorts) without understanding them,  aside from  admitting that you are a prostitute and charge for sex in a country (USA) where it`s illegal to do so - which standing by itself is already more than sufficient proof of someones lack of brain….. But, in this case, it`s specially cynical, since this escort has an inflated sense of self as well, and is – aside from her pretty obvious moronic stupidity -, looking down on other escorts, and their choice of work, writing derogatory and disrespecting speeches for 400$ agency escorts, on how she would not even move a finger for that kind of money and provide more than just a lackadaisical service (sic!). 

To top this and move her blatant idiocy to an orgasmic peak experience, she is indeed claiming, that we all can learn something by reading that heap of delusional poo - (Again, I shit you not! I did not invent this – I swear!) – ending with a lecture on how sensual experiences can only be great if you write books of pseudo-intellectual poo poo to each other beforehand. To be able to even be elected for  an encounter with her as the most intelligent representative of the demimonde , (- respectful silence -) you need to be able to trigger “intellectual discussions”. And if you`re one of these poor fellows like Mark Zuckerberg and Co. and just happen to be below the age of 45 you need to present her with proof of “intellectual acumen” beforehand, to get the slight possibility to date her. Because she does not believe that there is intelligent and intellectually stimulating life possible before the age of 45 – with her being the great exception from that rule with her extremely mature End-Twenties, yet again – which then can be used to enhance sensual interplay. She states on her homepage that she needs “cerebral connection”. I just wonder why she doesn´t use her own cerebrum  for creating said connections, then? (sic!   … Again, I shit you not! – ) Poor Mark Zuckerberg, there goes his chance! …..)

This blunt copyright infringement of private emails for financial gain might happen, because their own life is so plain-vanilla boring that they have to use other escorts stories to get some attention, or maybe because they are not as smart as they claim to be and can`t simply overstimulate the peanut-sized brain they seem to have. That is specially awesome and ridiculously cynical, when this same escort claims to have an university degree and being so overly smart in the legal field that even long-established and well recognised attorneys (sic! … I shit you not!) hold their breath and almost faint while having conversations with such a brilliant member of the seldom seen intelligentsia of the world. And being such an incredible member of the rare intelligentsia even without having the proper academic degrees to back up such blowing of smoke up their precious (or that`s what she thinks) behind. Even more wow. A born doctor honoris causa ! What a rare species indeed! (Cynic’s and Realists like me might think no one that actually has a  profitable career outside escorting, does actually work with clients and advertise for clients living in the same city they live in…..)

It`s so much better to pretend to be actually as intelligent as your clients having the same career like they do which is clearly expressed on her homepage, where she compares her career to be like her clients. I assume she thinks just because they book her, and pay her, she must be on their payroll, like a hired professional for their company,  right? Or, in the cases, where she hands out freebies, she considers it “pro bono” work, maybe? Hmm …. According to this sentiment this escorts peanut brain and the intelligence it holds must be in direct correlation to the amount of money charged and the amount of intelligence a client has. Her method of trying to attract escorts clients is by bragging about how similar she is to them and – same like she thinks they want – wants to escape for a truly loving Love affair! Oh wow! Two people at the same intentional level shall meet, according to her logic! (sic! … and again: I shit you not! A true story”). But – her logic again has more than one flaw – and shows she can`t possibly be even close to an intellectual – because why would she charge her clients then? And why would she not pay them? Or have a Love Affair (sic!) without financial benefits? In addition to this she also states that a “love affair with her won`t come cheap”, either! Maybe that very sophisticated (cynical mode on) photo on her page, where she holds a bundle of dollar bills in her hands – (are these One Dollar Bills, actually ;-) …….. ?) – for sure underlines what she REALLY wants, but lacks the proper marketing skills to sell? … (I am right about now gasping for air laughingGenerally speaking – what has love to do with money anyways? Specially with that one-way exchange of money?). Oh yes – again – she charges money, because she “always felt like a victim when people did not pay her for sex”, right? So maybe she is not even smart enough to think of a less contradicting and idiotic marketing strategy? That sufficiently explains why she copy-pastes content from other people`s page without wrapping her brain around it first, to see, if this content actually makes sense for her? So, now she wants money for love AND sex? Does she charge separately or does it come in an  all-inclusive package? ( Lets hope for her “the law of attraction” is really just pseudoscience …  ;)  …..  )

Thinking about this kind of idiotic delusions mixed with arrogant attitude makes me wonder, on who is more insulted (or maybe flattered – depending on whose perspective you take … ) by that notion: The client or the escort? This makes me come back to Einstein and his famous quote that says that  “Two Things are Infinite: The Universe and Human Stupidity.

Further, It also makes me wonder on why e.g. no one has yet discovered such unmatched intelligentsia and offered her a scholarship to Harvard or else. I heard universities do indeed grant such things to such amazingly brilliant brains. Bummer! What a serious loss for the world! We could all learn so much, and yet here we are, dumb and stupid waiting for this escort to enlighten us with stolen content from other people`s emails and Pseudo Anais Nin Sex education on how to do “it” properly and in style! Not like – she says – some 400$ “lackadaisical escorts” (sic!) of course, those poor suckers can still benefit from her overwhelming chemistry and satisfactory qualities yet unmatched by anyone on this earth. :-) – “sigh” – I am still shaking my head in wonders and maybe it is because – even if some think they are so awesome – they still need to get the basics of how to interact with people, or the basics of privacy, or of respect  and courtesy towards other people’s intellectual property or other people`s sensual experiences and relationships, for example long-term marriages.

Or maybe it`s because this particular example of delusional perception of self is not really smart and maybe her clients or friends deceive her the same way like she deceives her clients – and gosh bummer – delude her with making  compliments about her brain! Might be a slight possibility! Because some – even if they copy paste private emails and my Ideas – are not really capable of understanding the basic essence of what I wrote and used my own brain for, which makes them even more ridiculous, so ridiculous that even deleting these blog posts without proper apology does not help anymore.

Which makes me think that those 400$ escorts that are looked down by her at the same time  might even be a lot smarter than she thinks they are. But then again – who cares? Escort blogs and homepages are patient, same like papers with black ink on it. I personally would just try to use a marketing strategy that is kind of bulletproof, and does not scream “I am full of cat poo and copy pasting opinions” when someone with full a brain reads the braggadocious pile of words with spelling errors inclusive – by an english native speaker, that said. Hollywood actors – for example – practice eagerly for months or years to adapt to the role they are creating, so it is surrounded by some authenticity. Just writing crap about how special you think you are and then contradicting it with other written crap that makes the cat poo obvious at the same time just does not cut it ;-) .

And it`s really just stupid, that the world-wide web is not as wide as the endless universe,or – like Einstein said – the stupidity of some people,  and pieces of information have the habit of ending  up in my mailbox with additional questions. Oh wow!   In the related articles is a very important piece of information on how emails are “copyrighted information”.  It`s actually fool-proof especially for pretentious wannabes.

Next time if some  escorts use my private emails with my Ideas and  Reflections on my Life and copyrighted intellectual property, I advise them to at least have the decency to a) spell right “, please – specially if you are a native speaker (which I am not) – and claim to be sufficient in english and brag about your superior intelligence –  and b) quote me correct and with permission and c) ask me, if you don´t understand the essence of my messages, because otherwise I look like a fool , too, even if quoted correctly. Oh gosh! The last would be even worse than stealing my private emails and posting them without permission on some escort blogs and then deleting them without apology while denying their existence.   Mille grazie! Muito Obrigada! Dankeschön! This episode made me have a wonderful Déjà Poo 1“ (Def.: “The feeling that you`ve heard this crap before …”) with the notion, that there must be some Power in hitting rock bottom for some people, indeed ;-) .

International Day – “End Violence Against Sex Workers”

© Egon Schiele – “Sich entkleidende Frau”

“In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis”  - Quentin Crisp

 

Today, the 17th of December, is the International Day to End Violence Against SexWorkers. This violence can take many forms, one of them is physical hate crimes against Sex Workers. But there is also another form of violence against People in the Adult Industry, which i prefer to call “intellectual violence”. It is much more subtle and harder to detect than the obvious form of physical violence, but nevertheless similar in its efficiency. Both violences are equally evil and to be condemned. The political violence is indeed a harder to identify agenda, and – I think – serves as grounds for all other forms of violence. I like to call it “intellectual violence”.

It includes some part of the feminism against sex workers by making political propaganda against the free choice to work in the Adult Entertainment Industry. It includes psychologists, who portray sex workers as belonging to some kind of mental illness, that needs to be cured. It also includes laws that treat sex workers as second class citizenships, preferably with all legal duties, but most often no legal rights. And, of course – who would have guessed me saying that? – it is all part of a heteronormative system, which supports people who advocate a very special sort of sex, relationship-style, and makes distinctions between good and evil. In my opinion, such can be granted as a private opinion only, which we are all entitled to have. But, within a legal system or within intellectual streams of thoughts and proper reflection without moral judgement there should be no place for condemning other human beings, and psychologizing their choices into bad ones.

There is yet another form of violence against sex workers that I witnessed over some time and ongoing: It is the violence of abusing sex workers as servants for needs even in private relationships that have  either been developing between former clients and escorts over time or spontaneously.  Even in private/non business relationships, where certain emotional or physical or intimate transgressions have been agreed on, sometimes escorts get judged as “inferior” women, whose only purpose is to serve marriages and act as a catalysts for  ”typical monogamous-burgeoise-relationship-struggles” or other shortcomings between significant others, be it sexual or emotional. This is the purpose of a paid encounter, like it is the purpose of psychotherapists or a doctor to serve needs – for payment.

In a private encounter I see that both parties have rights to agree to a certain limitation of the relationship in full consensus.

Sometimes it happens that clients may not fully acknowledge the fact, that no escort would possibly be in the business , if she had other methods of sponsoring a career or a fully functional family support system. Many escorts (I dare to say – if not all) see this as a method to enhance career possibilities by earning money they otherwise would not have access to. And then be able to study or do other things that are paramount for bourgeoise clients due to family support or other resources. It seems to be easy to judge (internally) women, who do this  kind of work when you are surrounded with people, who never have had all these lacks of resources like some of us (again: if not all) do. That does not mean that escorts don`t shape their encounters in a way that are also fulfilling for them and they don`t like doing their job, but it means to be more understanding of an escort in a private setting and not disregard certain boundaries without thinking twice. No one, no doctor, no lawyer, no other business person does want to be treated in private according to the job they do when they get paid for. Sometimes it seems to me that – preferably bourgeoise – clients think it is funny to abuse women like us for their selfishness. This happens preferably due to the patriarchal influenced “holy virgin versus whore” – dilemma, that divides women into two categories (and serves to make them enemies of each other as well).

They don´t see that being an escort comes with a variety of problems already and they do not have the right to add to these problems by making extra ones. For a person with all resources being able to live a proper and “normal” (based on bourgeoise judgements) it might be hard to understand that escorts are not bedded on roses at all times, and if you fool them, it might have worse consequences that it has for them. And not all escorts do that job because they are horny at all times and therefore are not respectable women. I have witnessed so called “bourgeoise monogamous” women being more of a “failed” woman that we are (that is, if we judge by conservative morals).

Being monogamous and interacting with married guys in the hope they will divorce is utterly disrespectful. I doubt any escort would do that with full knowledge. So, it is not always the case, that just because we do the job, we are morally unethical, and someone can do with us what they please without thinking twice, since we “don`t deserve better because we do this job anyway”. This is the same ridiculous statement like sometimes happens when some people think escorts can`t be raped because they are available anyway for sex. Not the case. Its about being able to choose, and say no.  I hope this article may serve as a help to a better understanding and guide to proper reflection before doing harm. Or doing anything you wouldn`t do to people you truly care about, either ….

Pina Bausch – “Dance, Dance … otherwise we are lost”

© Wim Wenders – “Pina”

 ”I AM NOT INTERESTED IN HOW PEOPLE MOVE, I AM INTERESTED IN WHAT MAKES THEM MOVE” – PINA BAUSCH

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Pina – a film for Pina Bausch is an homage for a german dancer and choreographer famous for “inventing” an art form called “Tanztheater” ( Dance Theater ), that I see best described as a connection between contemporary dance and modern theater. In my opinion it is a method for triggering personal development as profound and deep as conventional psychotherapy does. In my whole life I have gravitated towards  methods of emotional catharsis and authenticity, because I did fight several demons put as obstacle into my life by an upbringing that contained physical and psychological abuse as well as focus on the proper façade to disguise that same abuse. So, I have never been attracted to the standard dance classes teenagers usually attended while in school, and starting to date and socialize in the evening. For me this was the kind of Pandemonium Party I have tried to avoid and have escaped with all fibres of my being, profoundly and with no return, preferring an alternative lifestyle. This might be probably a one-sided and rather judgemental understanding of conservative dancing for some. But, the big difference I embraced between these dancing styles was the emphasis on “emotional and cathartic expression” and not “meticulously practising the right moves”.

Even Audrey Hepburn used to describer her lessons in ballet as a method of discipline and punishment:   Dancers do a lot of technical things out of good habit. When we relax we never get sloppy. In my case that’s because when my ballet teacher, Madame Rambert, would catch us folding our arms or slouching our shoulders she’d give us a good rap across the knuckles with a stick… Dancers learn to feel when their posture is not graceful…”. I found that learning “proper steps thru pain and discipline but smiling all the time” was  inhibiting my libertine tendencies as well as bringing back flashbacks of abusive experiences in my past.     So, this slight difference explains why I felt ”Pandemonium Party” was the proper description for some demands within regular dance. I  honestly felt drawn to authentic emotions and dramatic expression with a connection to Psychotherapy.    Of course, technique plays an important role, too. But the emphasis was the  focus on very personal catharsis and very individual expression, rather than technical and repetetive strict Pandemonium Plays with a focus on proper technique.

The difference in emphasis is best described by Pina Bausch herself:       “I’m not interested in how people move;        I’m interested in what makes them move”.                       So, actually it was Pina Bausch, who ignited my interest in dance again.  It was through her Dance Theater that I found my heart beating faster when it came to “Body and Soul-Therapies” like Contact Improvisation and Dance Therapy, and other form of Art Therapies.  Here is information about the movie taken from the original homepage:

Wim Wenders describes Pina Bausch:

INVENTOR OF A NEW ART FORM

No, there was no hurricane that swept across the stage,
there were just … people performing
who moved differently then I knew
and who moved me as I had never been moved before.
After only a few moments I had a lump in my throat,
and after a few minutes of unbelieving amazement
I simply let go of my feelings
and cried unrestrained.
This had never happened to me before…
maybe in life, sometimes in the cinema,
but not when watching a rehearsed production,
let alone choreography.
This was not theatre, nor pantomime,
nor ballet and not at all opera.
Pina is, as you know,
the creator of a new art.
Dance theatre.

MOVEMENT

Until now movement as such has never touched me.
I always regarded it as a given.
One just moves. Everything moves.
Only through Pina’s Tanztheater have I learned to value
movements, gestures, attitudes, behaviour, body language,
and through her work learned to respect them.
And anew every time when, over the years I saw Pina’s pieces, many times and again,
did I relearn, often like being struck by thunder,
that the simplest and most obvious is the most moving at all:
What treasure lies within our bodies, to be able to express itself without words,
and how many stories can be told without saying a single sentence.

Steve Jobs – “He saw Genius in our Craziness”

  • “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward. Maybe they have to be crazy. How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels? We make tools for these kinds of people. While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do” - Apple Inc.

Surprised and saddened i saw the Apple homepage`s announcement on my MacBook Pro to read of Steve Job`s passing. I don`t even have the words to convey my appreciation of his visions and contributions to life as we know it. We get one person like him in a lifetime , if we`re lucky! Thanks to him and his team for making life easier and for providing wonderful tools for creative spirits. He is a great example that what once started as counterculture can make great success and change the way we perceive the world to something better by thinking outside the box

With my headline I parrot  Forbes Magazine when it states “Steve Jobs – He saw Genius in our Craziness , because unfortunately I couldn`t think of a better headline myself and fell immediately in love with this one, so the blunt copying might be forgiven. Garmine Gallo, the writer of this precious article  is pointing out the various principles on which Steve Jobs pursued his career and  set his dreams into visions of reality. Shall his insights and creativity inspire all of us for our very own independent career and making our dreams come true:

Principle One: Do what you love.  Jobs once said, “People with passion can change the world for the better.” Life is too short, he said, for living someone else’s dream.  Don’t spend another minute doing something or working for someone who doesn’t inspire you to higher levels of achievement.

Principle Two: Put a dent in the universe.  Steve Jobs believed in the power of vision.    Don’t lose sight of the big vision.

Principle Three: Connect things.  Steve Jobs once said creativity is connecting things.  He meant that people with a broad set of life experiences can often see things that others miss.  Don’t live in a bubble.  Hire outside of your industry.  Hire for attitude and creativity.

Principle Four: Say no to 1,000 things.  Steve Jobs said he was as proud of what Apple chose not to do as he was of what Apple did.  In apple’s world, simplicity is the elimination of clutter.

Principle Five: Create insanely different experiences.  Everything about the experience you have when you walk into an Apple store is intended to enrich your life and to create an emotional connection between you and the Apple brand.  What are you doing to enrich the lives of your customers?

Principle Six: Master the message.  You can have the greatest idea in the world but if you can’t communicate your ideas, it doesn’t matter.  Steve Jobs was the world’s greatest corporate storyteller.  Instead of simply delivering a presentation like most people do, he informed, he educated, he inspired and he entertained, all in one presentation.

Principle Seven: Sell dreams, not products.  Steve Jobs captured our imagination because he really understood his customer.  Your customers don’t care about your product.  They care about themselves, their hopes, their ambitions.  Steve jobs taught us that if you help your customers reach their dreams, you’ll win them over”

SlutWalk – “Don`t blame the victims…!”

© Grayson Castro – “Zombie Audrey” –  with kind permission

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“You won’t like me when I’m angry. Because I always back up my rage with facts and documented sources.” – Hulk

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I will be attending the SlutWalks in Manhattan at October 1st, and hope to be able to catch some attention of people, who have not been aware of these Walks, as well. Following you find an explanation for the rise of the “SlutWalks” and especially the definition of the term “Slut” as a concept of empowerment against heteronormativity andpatriarchy. Slutwalk Movements have been rising as an angry voice against the very real condemnation and patriarchal prejudice still existing in our  society that says “women/men should avoid being sexually provocative  (whatever that means is up to cultural interpretations and inclinations as well … )” as protective measurements against being raped. People of all sexes and genders have joined SlutWalk movements to protest against this statements that seem to still be fundamentally imprinted in heteronormative society consciously or unconscious. Especially against the claim that people should avoid to “get raped” instead of “not to rape”, the walk presents and introduces powerful mental and philosophical statements.  Society and sometimes even presentations in court state that a victim of a rape had it coming with their behaviour, the way they dress or anything else that could trigger rapists, so it is their own personal fault. Do they also encourage people not to get babies, because it might provoke pedophiles?
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Quite on the contrary, the reality of rape victims, plus several psychological and sociological  studies, have shown people getting raped do not necessarily wear provocative clothes at all or behave provocative in any way.  Rapists do their evil deeds regardless of the victims behaviour. So, the politically correct message is,  rapists deserve all the consequences and society must be protected from people such as the aforementioned. The message implicitly presented by heteronormative inclinations is although that people of all genders and sexes should not try to provoke, which makes the act and the responsibility for the evil deeds solely at the expense of the ones that get raped. Which is hilarious, of course! But to understand this, one has to understand , the strict measurements regarding female sexuality, that stem from the fact that there were times when fatherhood could not be measured with genetic tests, but only with keeping women away from other men to assure cuckolding does not happen. Hence, the comprehensible (in regard to power) need to present women as evil and men as their poor victims. This follows a long ruling of patriarchal measurements to control sex, and in particular female sexual expression and female clothing, to maintain in power and treat women like property. So, the victims are not only assaulted, but as a logical result of this method of thought held personally responsible for someone else`s inability to respect profound personal boundaries.
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I would not stop short of comparing this western notion to the extreme habits and “legal” outcomes of a misogynist system in Saudi Arabia, where we are presented with the fact that women can be raped without consequences as long as the rapist states he was “provoked” (Poor guys, really….Can`t help it, right?). I assume i am not the only one to find this despicable, and yet still we find similar homeopathic dosages of this same notion in our western emancipated society as well. It might not seem as obvious as in Saudi Arabia, because the venom is hidden well protected underneath a  façade of so-called “evolved culture”. The agenda of women and clothes and sexually provocative behaviour has been addressed by feminists and other countercultural movements since the 1960ies and even earlier , yet it stays an issue that is ever-present and its influence is not to be underestimated. More often than not I was surprised to find women degrading other women with the known stereotype “whore versus holy virgin”much rather and more willing to do so than men harping into this same notion of evaluation and judgement.
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So, this brings me to my favourite point of heated discussion, which is “feminism”, precisely the streams within of feminism , that are excluded by the labelsex positive feminism“. It shows that also women can be enemies of other women by playing the same tricks, mainly those supportive of heteronormative notions. Some conservative feminists seem to have problems with the word “Slut” because they can`t wrap their head around the idea being heteronormative interpretation the cause   of its derogatory etymology,  and not the word all by itself – standing alone.  By pointing out the label “Slut” as a negatively interpreted label for women, they do the same like patriarchal males with interpreting words:  Supporting heteronormative values about sexuality, and what it means to be a “proper citizen or woman”. In patriarchal society a “Slut” is not a properly respected person, so it seems in some areas of feminism.  The areas of sexuality within heteronormativity are labeled as “proper/improper”. Which means, to be precise, that a “Slut” is someone, that acts improper when expressing her/himself. So, by criticising the use of the word Slut by reasoning with patriarchal etymology, these feminist streams basically support heteronormative rules, in my opinion.  Countercultural movements like Polyamory and some homosexual cultures, and the defined  the use of the word “Slut” outside of any  derogatory notions of judgement..
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Further, there is still the widespread implicit notion of rape being an incidence stating the male = predator and the woman = victim.  Hence, the logical conclusion of this very shortsighted belief states how women should be dressed to avoid being sexual abused. Also feminists buy into these visions of primarily men as the perpetrators of sexual assault and rape. The notion of men being predators and females the victims is a very biased statistical incidence lacking any reality. Just because something makes it into statistics does not proof it is happening more often! It just shows awareness guided in one direction, much rather than in another! Point being, women, too, are quite guilty of doing such things, for example abusing males sexually and physically. Several reports show, that victims of sexual assault are also male. Hence, the conclusion that outfit is in any relation to the incidence of rapes is taken ad absurdum right there!  Many other reports show females being predators and raping males. The prevalence is just less obvious than it is with females being sexually abused by men. One reason might be, that studies concerning such issues have a lesser likelihood to get funded. Another reason are the incidents being reported. Males might feel much more shame than women, and don`t dare to report these happenings, since awareness of these happenings are not as widely noted. Concerning the Slutwalks I witnessed a  rather short sighted discussion happening in Austria amongst some hardcore-feminists  showing concerns, whether men shall be allowed to be part of the SlutWalk movements! No Joke! Gladly, when digging into that matter, I was assured that the outcome of the discussion  allowed males to participate! Well, that is too kind! I was extremely relieved! (Note the cynicism! ) Hence, to avoid such discussions in the future I strongly recommend reading “Abused Men” by Philip Cook                                             .
As a final point regarding rape and juggling responsibilities I strongly think,  if someone cannot control his impulses enough, to not rape, or severely cross personal boundaries against someone else`s will, this person has nothing to do out in the open society. Provoked or not is a notion that lies far beyond the issue presented here and clearly misses the point by far.  Another person depriving someone else of her rights to make a consensual decision is a criminal. The fact that this criminal thinks he was “provoked” only adds more to his lunatic state of mind. Let`s come to a conclusion: Being provoked lies in the eyes and mind of the beholder and  the choice to act upon it does so as well. It is never ever the responsibility of the victim! Stop blaming the victims!  Here is some simple insight quoted directly from Wikipedia about the philosophical intricacies the idea of a SlutWalk movement presents:

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“What is a SlutWalk ? Slutwalk movements began on April 3, 2011, in Toronto, Canada, and became a movement of rallies across the world. Participants protest against explaining or excusing rape by referring to any aspect of a woman’s appearance. The rallies began when Constable Michael Sanguinetti, a Toronto Police officer, suggested that to remain safe, “women should avoid dressing like sluts.” The protest takes the form of a march, mainly by young women, where some dress in ordinary clothing and others dress provocatively, like “sluts.” (source Wikipedia)

On January 24, 2011 Constable Michael Sanguinetti spoke on crime prevention at a York University safety forum. He said: “Women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized.” SlutWalk co-founders Sonya Barnett and Heather Jarvis decided to use the word slut in their response. They observe that historically, “slut” has had negative connotations, and that their goal is to redeem the term. They write that women “are tired of being oppressed by slut-shaming; of being judged by our sexuality and feeling unsafe as a result.” They continue: “Being in charge of our sexual lives should not mean that we are opening ourselves to an expectation of violence, regardless if we participate in sex for pleasure or work.” (source: Wikipedia)

Why  ”Slut………………….?
The idea behind the use of the word “Slut” is to reclaim the history and etymology of the word “Slut” as a word with derogatory or insulting meaning into a word of empowerment for sexpositive people of all genders.
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Common usages of the word Slut
The accepted denotative meaning is a sexually promiscuous woman or “a woman of a low or loose character;  a person who lacks the ability or chooses not to exercise a power of discernment to order their affairs, such as a womanizer for example. The adjective “slutty” carries a similar connotation but can be applied both to people and to clothing and accessories. The term slut has therefore frequently been used as an insult. The derogatory power of the term derives both from its denotative meaning of a promiscuous woman, but also from its historical connotations that identify a slut as a dirty or unkempt person.
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Alternate usages of the word “Slut”:
Recent times have seen alternate usages of the word slut in many subcultures. It is often used describing some gay males and bisexuals, comparing them as people who are promiscuous in that they have, or are reputed to have, many sexual partners, or whose sexuality is voracious or indiscriminate.  Slut is also used as a slang term in the BDSM, polyamorous, and gay and bisexual communities. With BDSM, polyamorous, and non-monogamous people, in usage taken from the bookThe Ethical Slutby Dossie Easton, the term has been used as an expression of choice to openly have multiple partners and revel in that choice: “a slut is a person of any gender who has the courage to lead life according to the radical proposition that sex is nice and pleasure is good for you.”Here a slut is an empowered individual who has taken control of their sexuality and has sex with whomever they choose, regardless of religious or social pressures or conventions to conform to a straight-laced monogamous lifestyle committed to one partner for life. The term has been “taken back” to express the rejection of the concept that government, society, or religion may judge or control one’s personal liberties, and the right to control one’s own sexuality”. (Wikipedia)

Monistic Idealism – “Metaphysics of Sexual Love” (work in progress..)

copyright Laughland Brown – with kind permission

“Love is the Law , Love under Will”  - Aleister Crowley

Monistic Idealism is a metaphysical theory which states that consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all being. In it`s essence, it means, that the mind creates the universe and the physical world does not exist outside the mind in an objective way. Hence,  it is called a “monistic” theory because it holds that there is only one type of thing in the universe.  At the same time it encompasses a form of idealism, because it holds that “one” thing to be consciousness.  Monism is therefor any philosophical view which holds that there is unity in a given field of inquiry. This is the essence for some philosophers to hold that the universe is “one” rather than “dualistic” or “pluralistic”. 

To give an example, the german Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer is one of the most influential representers of monistic idealism:                                                                                                 His most influential work, The World as Will and Representation, claimed that the world is fundamentally what we recognize in ourselves as our will. Schopenhauers analysis of will led him to the conclusion that emotional, physical, and sexual desires can never be fully satisfied. The corollary of this is an ultimately painful human condition. Consequently, he considered that a lifestyle of negating desires, similar to the ascetic teachings of VedantaBuddhism and the Church Fathers of early Christianity, was the only way to attain liberation.

Concerning Physics and Science of Nature it means, that the concept of “will” basically is  defined as energy. This is  judged to be central to scientific explanations of the shape of universe and how it is driven. Schopenhauer’s metaphysical analysis of will, his views on human motivation and desire, and his aphoristic writing style influenced many well-known thinkers including Friedrich NietzscheLudwig WittgensteinErwin SchrödingerAlbert Einstein,  Sigmund Freud,  Carl Gustav Jung, and Leo Tolstoy. (Wikipedia et al.)