/lit/ - Literature

>A man has as many masters as he has vices. By promoting vice, the regime promotes slavery, which can be fashioned into a form of political control. Once man is freed from the moral order, he is immediately subjected to the depotism of those who know how to manipulate his desires.

>If morality is a form of repression, then reason is repressive, and if reason is repressive, then man can only become free by becoming irrational, but once he becomes irrational, the only thing that drives him to act is his appetites, his impulses, his passions. But once a man is driven by his passions, he loses all control of his actions. Thus freedom of this sort, as the ancients rightly saw, becomes a form of slavery. Those who advocate freedom of this sort are promoting, whether they understand it or not, a form of social control because the motive for action which previously lay in reason has now been replaced by the stimulation of passion. Those who control the stimuli now control the stimulated.

>Appetites belong to man only if he exerts rational control over them. If the opposite is true, the man belongs to his appetites. Addiction is the only word which seems to convey this truth in our culture. Unless passion is under rational control, it is invariably under the control of someone else, especially in an advertising culture like ours, which is based on manipulation.
There are two options
1) Either you control yourself according to the moral law, or
2) Your passions control you in the absence of moral control or, - and this the the modern variant of 2)
3) Someone controls you through the manipulation of your passions.

Or is he just a Christian loony?