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Active people don't change the world profoundly, ideas do. Napoleon is less important to world history than Rousseau.
Actionists, beatniks, hippies, and serial killers were all pure libertarians who advanced the rights of the individual against social norms and against what they believed to be the hypocrisy of morality, sentiment, justice, and pity. Having exhausted the possibilities of sexual pleasure, it was reasonable that individuals should turn their attention to the wider pleasure of cruelty.
In a perfectly liberal sexual system, some people have an exciting erotic life; others are reduced to masturbation and solitude.
For me, everything is irreversible in the life of a society, as well as in individuals.
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