Power tends to get confused with repression.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box.
We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.
If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.
Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.
People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.
The seed of revolution is repression.
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
Repression is fantastic.