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ORIGINAL: ICGsteve

I would argue, and very many have agreed with this view over the last fifty years or so, that modern technical society is unusually ill by historic standards, that it is deep in the process of death and renewal, so individuals are for the most part left to their own devises and must make their own way. Normally it is so that all that is exterior is interior as well, and vis-versa, that healthy individuals must cast off the teachings and practices of society is a temporary reality. I would argue that those of us in the lifestyle have rejected all of the modern precepts on equality and power, that we are not really a subculture but in fact have rejected the established culture. We find individual growth and happyness in BDSM but I think increasingly we will also find ourselves in conflict with the broader society which clings to its dieing ideology even as they find their interiors increasingly empty, and view the very existance of BDSM as a threat to their way of life and identity.