Repression

A world of repression is a world of lying. To ourselves and to one another. But especially to ourselves.

Repression means hurting people to get your way. And the hurt results in people lying to themselves and one another about who they really are.

The sad paradox and self-fulfilling prophecy is that the hurt leads to the lying leads the cynicism leads to the pain unresolved leads to the hurt leads to the lying leads to the cynicism leads to the pain unresolved leads to the hurt, etc., etc., etc.

The only way out of this cycle, the only real way forward, the only genuine progress is to end the repression and the hurt and the lying and the cynicism and the pain unresolved.

And the only way to end that cycle is to end the hurt.

Love,
Ben