There was an enormous amount of repression.
And those patterns of activation and repression can make an enormous difference — in the way that similar keyboards can produce wildly different sounds.
The Chinese authorities, as a part of the state repression, were literally using the enormous public anger of the Chinese on the hapless minority Tibetans.
The case for repression -and getting on with life -- made by Lauren Slater drew an enormous (largely positive) response: many asserted that it beats reliving trauma.
You can't separate economics from politics, especially not in China, and the most remarkable phenomenon in recent times has been the enormous centralisation of power around President Xi Jinping, which is unprecedented since Mao Zedong, along with mounting signs of political and social repression.
Repression causes untold misery by destroying opportunities for empathy, understanding and love, and instead fosters depression, substance abuse and anxiety disorders, with their enormous social and economic costs.
Repression fed extremism.
