A repressed society creates its own alter ego. In eras of great repression, when the natural urges and desires inherent to being human (not exclusive to sexual desire) are refused exploration in fantasy and play, they do not simply go away. Desires denied take over and blacken and rot. When violence is done to the self, that violence becomes directed outward. The person punishing themselves into conforming develops a lust for revenge against the nonconformist, a bloodthirst towards the disobedient. A culture of self-denial is a culture of death.

















