The benefit of biology
Is regeneration.
the body can use its tissues.
aggravate its mucus membranes
irritate
enflame
riot the senses.
the body can slam
skin against skin
slough off cells to friction
and magically reform
knit fascia together
muscles become stronger by being microscopically torn.
used to the limit of their capacity.
Pushing a muscle to failure
Teaches the muscle that it can do more
Next time
Ensures that next time
Failure comes later
To use a body harder
Break the body a little more each time
This is one way to use a body.
There are other ways to use a body.
What are the conditions of normal use of the body?
Rest and Wake
Breed and Feed
Work and Play
Labor. The work of a body.
Manual labor. Sentenced to hard labor. A labor of love.
The labor class. The labor party. The labor movement
To labor the ground. To proceed with difficulty. A ship that labors in the sea.
To exchange work for money. A job. To get paid for your labor.
A woman in labor.
Can a body be bought or only rented? When laboring, what is being purchased?
The feel of the body, the action of the body or the body itself for that period of time?
Sex is an action of the body. Labor is an action of the body.
You may pay for these labors.
These specific actions.
Swinging a hammer
Writing a word.
Pushing a button.
Being made to laugh in pleasure at a joke.
Putting a finger in an anus, as long as the purpose is not pleasure.
Perhaps I labor the point.
Yet.
As an advanced practitioner of putting fingers in anuses for pleasure, I am insulted.
Trust me when I tell you, it is both skilled and valuable labor.
Capitalism would teach us that the highest compliment is the desire to be bought. The more we want it the more valuable it is. This value is subjective and often hypocritical. Consider the purchase of sex. We want sex more than most things, yet we are told that paying for it makes it cheap.
To cheapen.
Sometimes we buy broken things. Broken things can be valuable but not all valuable things are broken. Bodies are in some phase of required breakage. All bodies have been previously broken. Like a wild and untamed horse, a body hasn’t proven its value until it is broken.
This body is broken.
This body is good
This body is good at being used
This body is good at being broken.
I whisper to my body in encouragement-
…………………………………………………….you are a machine
When a machine breaks and is repaired
The spot of the weld is stronger than the surrounding steel
When a body breaks, fibroblasts and leukocytes rush to the scene.
Fibroblasts are the only cell in the body that can still change function after birth
They shape shift.
They generate collagen.
the connective tissue that forms the jelly of the eyes
the fascia that holds the organs in place
the strands of matter that heal wounds.
When a body breaks open and repairs itself
A scar forms.
Scar tissue is arguably much stronger than the tissue it replaces.
Thicker, stiffer, capable of bearing more weight
Much more difficult to break.
But on a cellular level a scar goes in only one direction, the collagen fibers parallel to the plane of the skin. By contrast normal skin forms slowly, a random matrix of criss crossed fibers.
The growth of a muscle beneath the story of a scar is restricted
Rapid regeneration sacrifices flexibility
Rapid breakage encourages unidirectional progress
linear thought and the unfettered belief in things like
Pain and the past.
Breszny says
“By cultivating a tender and cheerful skepticism,
I inoculate myself against the virus of fanaticism.”
One way to grow is to break
One way to heal is circuitously
One way to tear is in a line
One way to believe is not completely
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