The Marquis de Sade was a pervert because he believed that nature was too productive. There was too much life, and the problem was constraining this productivity. He was anticipating Schopenhauer here. I think this was a delusion created by being born in 18th century France.
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18th century France was actually a dynamic and successful society in many ways (don’t believe the Jacobin propagandists still among us). De Sade had it too easy and deluded himself into thinking that it’s easy to produce human life. He thought there was an excess to play with. No
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