Ging

I see enjoyment (jouissance) as a built-in surplus that pushes past satisfaction into something often painful or compulsive. Ideology hides this excess by promising straightforward fulfillment, but that promise produces the very leftover enjoyment it denies. The subject thinks it wants a clear goal, while an unconscious drive seeks the surplus; culture can redirect this surplus (sublimation) or it returns as symptoms (addiction, shame). So enjoyment isn’t just pleasure — it’s the extra push that both sustains desire and disrupts meaning.

You saying no such thing is a misunderstanding. Žižek links this surplus to the paradox that prohibiting pleasure produces a new form of enjoyment — the pleasure of prohibition. The ban sets up a forbidden object that becomes more desirable; the surplus (jouissance) then migrates into transgression or guilt, so prohibition itself generates the very enjoyment it aims to stop.

I'm curious to know specifically how this was experienced as offending

Frustration is a natural part of learning; ignorance is bliss

Are you familiar with 'jouissance'?

The drive continues past satisfaction into compulsion.

Pleasure is mixed with pain, shame, or guilt during/after the act.

It’s symbolic. Eating can act like a shortcut for dealing with other feelings or wants — it fills a need that words or thinking don’t fix.

you don’t believe in any of the supernatural stuff

Correct. It feels beyond a little silly to pretend there is any kind of entity in control or overlooking the unfolding of events that is reality or what we mean by reality. I will admit, the 'god in process' theories are fun and maybe insightful to some degree but nothing worth putting faith in just yet.

are just about the better teachings of Jesus? Aka a Jefferson bible take?

I've heard of this, but I just now researched it. Seems interesting, but it is certainly not what I'm speaking to at all afaict

I can understand being hopeful for something greater taking it's place post-collapse, but why wish a downfall for an entire team of humans that feel pain just as much as you and I?

I'm confused. I also have many hobbies. That's what compile time is for--big compiles are started just before bed time. Gentoo stays out of your way and gives you more freedom. I concede that I may just be lucky at not having any useflag issues in many years. But I also learned a lot from the first few I stumbled into. It's this quality of learning I can't find in any other distro.

I love all non-windows OS tho

The beauty is that you never fully install the Gentoo you want. It's about the journey and the friends we make along the way, not the destination.

What are we supposed to believe will save the world now?

Install Gen2