I'll bet the establishment of this day and age are students of Marquis de Sade

While Sade was alive, censors shuddered at his accounts of rape, incest and pedophilia, as well as his vitriolic atheism, and thousands of his books were destroyed. He remained all but unknown in the 19th century beyond a tiny band of cognoscenti, including Flaubert and Baudelaire, who found underground copies of his books or gained access to the forbidden Enfer, or Hell, section of the National Library in Paris.

In the early 1900s, the critic and poet Apollinaire wrote the first unabashed essays in defense of Sade, and by the 1920s his cause was taken up by the Surrealists, including Man Ray, André Breton and Dali. They were attracted to Sade’s demands for complete sexual freedom and political liberty, as well as the hallucinogenic nature of his imagination. They dubbed him the “Divine Marquis,” after the provocative Italian Renaissance author the “Divine” Pietro Aretino. By the mid-20th century, opinion-makers such as Jean-Paul Sartre were championing his banned works, and cheap pirated editions found their way to the famously open-minded French public.

To his admirers, Sade’s influence runs deep. His novels were among the first to explore the dark, hidden impulses of human nature, prefiguring Freud’s idea of the subconscious by a century. He presented homosexuality as no more or less “normal” than heterosexuality, anticipating the modern gay movement long before Oscar Wilde. And his demand to remove all “civilized restraints” on behavior imposed by the state, the church and moribund tradition inspired iconoclastic modern writers from Louis-Ferdinand Céline to Henry Miller in their quests for individual freedom.

Still have a digital copy of Salo that I've never watched.

It makes sense. The debauchery we see on display today could have its roots in Marque de Sade's hedonistic lifestyle ripe with corruption and torment of weaker individuals. The aristocrats of today's society are the ones running the show. It seems that psychopaths are a protected class when we see all of the propaganda that is being forced upon the mainstream public in education, science, medicine, and governance. Not to even mention the sickness that is gender reassignment surgery for children. Not only is it a psychological torture, but also the torment of medicines that do not heal, but instead hurt the population. As well as the food supply that has been poisoned. Recent events signify that things will get much worse before they get better. But evil of this magnitude has been around far longer than we understand. Just look at Marquis de Sade, and his lifestyle of living life without any morals, or limits. No laws. Nothing being sacred. The war on Christianity proves that.

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