Oligarchical Deception - Lyrics - Abstinence
Abstinence is a self-enforced restraint from indulging in bodily activities that are widely experienced as giving pleasure. Most frequently, the term refers to sexual abstinence, or abstinence from alcohol or food. The practice can arise from religious prohibitions and practical considerations. Abstinence may also refer to drugs. For example you can abstain from smoking. Abstinence has diverse forms. Commonly it refers to a temporary or partial abstinence from food, as in fasting. In the twelve-step program of Overeaters Anonymous abstinence is the term for refraining from compulsive eating, akin in meaning to sobriety for alcoholics. Because the regimen is intended to be a conscious act, freely chosen to enhance life, abstinence is sometimes distinguished from the psychological mechanism of repression. The latter is an unconscious state, having unhealthy consequences. Freud termed the channeling of sexual energies into other more culturally or socially acceptable activities, "sublimation".
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Measurements of humanity
In increments separating rungs
Though all who near the top
Will be devoured by those from underneath
Equality is a right as all bleed and die
And the plentiful of today
Could be the destitute of tomorrow
Compassion now a trait of the idealistic
Who are criticized for not being realistic
In a society where prisons outvalue schools
Trade in the rights of the many
For the supposed safety of the few
But they'll never be safe
As their propaganda destroys their sanity
