> Mao explicitly forbid the army and the police from trying to stop the violence, ordering that they must “absolutely not intervene.” Names and addresses of wri

> Mao explicitly forbid the army and the police from trying to stop the violence, ordering that they must “absolutely not intervene.” Names and addresses of writers and artists were given to the Red Guards, who proceeded to ransack their homes, destroying books, paintings and musical instruments, and beating up their owners in the process. That's what 2A is for. The article doesn't explain what these regimes really do. The end-goal is inverting the flow of "life-force". Normally it flows upwards when people express any high or selfless aspirations. In demonic religions, this flow goes downward, mostly via two channels: hatred and sexual passion. The two are destructive and creative forces inverted. Wars, concentration camps and prisons create a reliable source of hatred and fear. The cult of unhinged sexuality inverts the creative force of the people. The author is wrong to think that tyranny wants to break down your will and turn people into veggies. It's an intermediate step. The demonic force behind a tyrant wants its subjects to apply all their knowledge and creativity to demonic ends. This is why creative cruelty was encouraged in Red Guard and other similar cults. Dumb veggies with weak will are of no use to them, but they may serve as the fuel by producing hatred and sexual passion.