Delany 111: "in times and situations we might risk calling less sophisticated and less civilized, it is not the ego and the id that run wild, seeking innocent or even ignorant pleasure [...] Rather it is the super-ego that runs amok"
"Paradoxically, the cultivation of pleasure and all those conditions where the ego and id are allowed to express themselves, whether through art or action, with minimal hurt to others, requires leisure and affluence, as well as many intersecting discursive traditions"
Put another way (126): "it takes a highly civilized person with a highly cultivated aesthetic sensibility to do something just because it's pleasurable. And most of the time, the necessary prior cultivation has been the setting in place of a discourse that says a certain amount or type of pleasure is itself good, moral, right, and beneficial to the individual and promotes the greater good"
126: "It's much easier to do something we think is right [...] than it is to do something only because it's pleasurable"
"The vast majority of the violence and brutality committed in the world [...] are acting on the most rigid notions of what's right and what's wrong. They are fixated on values such as honor, bravery, right. As such situations become more and more strained, all aggression becomes a matter of respect and disrespect"