When I read TJ's article one thing immediately sprang to mind- Plato's famous Chariot Allegory. In it a charioteer (us) has to keep a handle on two very different horses pulling his chariot. The first one "is noble and of noble breed". The other? Not so much. Here's Plato from his dialogue the Phaedrus:
As I said at the beginning of this tale, I divided each soul into three -- two horses and a charioteer; [253d] and one of the horses was good and the other bad: the division may remain, but I have not yet explained in what the goodness or badness of either consists, and to that I will proceed. The right-hand horse is upright and cleanly made; he has a lofty neck and an aquiline nose; his colour is white, and his eyes dark; he is a lover of honour and modesty and temperance, and the follower of true glory; he needs no touch of the whip, but is guided by word and admonition only. [253e] The other is a crooked lumbering animal, put together anyhow; he has a short thick neck; he is flat-faced and of a dark colour, with grey eyes and blood-red complexion; the mate of insolence and pride, shag-eared and deaf, hardly yielding to whip and spur.
Hardly yeilding to whip and spur. That sounds familiar. Ahem.
Some contemporary readers of Plato noticed the similarity of his second dark horse with Freud's notion of the Id (literally das Es, or "the It"). TJ's piece also very much reminded me of the Id, what Freud once 
called "chaos, a cauldron full of seething expectations". Here's a good pithy summary of Freud's thinking on the Id by Calvin S. Hall:
The id remains an infantile character throughout life. It cannot tolerate tension. It wants immediate gratification. It is demanding, impulsive, irrational, asocial, selfish and pleasure loving. The id recognizes nothing external to itself. (1)
Dang. I'll have to try and remember that next time I'm drunk and madly craving poutine before bed. Pull on the reigns of the dark horse there charioteer!
And lastly for this Bricolage, what would happen if we lived in a culture where the Id, our inner pigdog, was actually encouraged to come on out and run the show? Well, in many ways, we already live in that culture. TJ wrote an article early on at Beams called Escape, Avoidance and
Instant Gratification- The Culture of Spoiled Brats which explores this theme and works as a nice corollary to his pigdog piece. At the bottom of that article I added a footnote exploring some interesting things that the philosopher Slavoj Zizek has had to say on this matter. I thought it was a bit too long to reprint in full here, but I invite the reader to go have a look at that. Here's a quick sampler in closing:
We now live in “liberal-permissive” societies where there’s no longer any collective mode of conduct at all, no longer any meta-code to guide our behavior. We’re now individuals who are free to choose whatever we want. And Zizek famously argues that the postmodern super-ego injunction today is to ‘Enjoy!’ This is basically an injunction that emanates from a certain consumer capitalism; the secular individualism of our liberal democracies creates the conditions (the clearing away of the traditional big Other) for a particular form of capitalism that implores us to ‘Consume!’ It tells us emphatically and repeatedly (and seductively) to enjoy ourselves to the max because that’s now our right as modern individuals.
