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Maybe I just don't get this article, but I really dislike the singular interpretation of adventure as some kind of Male self delusional escapism of responsibili
by tomxor 7y ago
Maybe I just don't get this article, but I really dislike the singular interpretation of adventure as some kind of Male self delusional escapism of responsibility - adventure and exploration are the one thing making life worth living for many people, and something worth risking dying for.
Adventure is it's own feeling, it does not need to be explained away as a pseudo emotion or psychoanalysed as dysfunction in disguise. Sure Armstrong had demons, intensely suppressed emotions of family, but i refuse to believe these clinical description of his actual adventure as some kind of symptom, someone doesn't go to the moon purely for escapism, there are far easier ways of doing that.
It's possible the author has never experienced the genuine emotion of adventure, and therefor is blind to this aspect.