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One night, a young carpet dealer whom I had met in the Grand Bazaar — in theory, an ideological stronghold of the regime — traversed most of the sprawling, traffic-choked city to sit with me on a low retaining wall by the Tajrish River, a place where he felt he would not be overheard describing the repression and corruption of his workplace.
But Bataille might also have emphasized school, for school is work, too — work before the adult workplace — and school tutors the adolescent in repression and the rectitude of the bourgeois order, at the very moment in life when, temperamentally and biologically, one is most Dionysiac and most enraged by the hypocritical ordinances of the parental league.
Georges Bataille has some haunting words about how the workplace is the scene of our domestication and repression: it is where we are forced to put away our Dionysianism.
More repression.
Maybe repression.
Workplace safety.
There was financial repression.
Repression was intense.
Repression fed extremism.
The emotional repression.
The repression is ubiquitous.
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