DS-120 Deep Load
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(same as GB-127)
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DS-120
$3.95
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INTRODUCTION
The white population of South Africa occupies a position of supremacy over all other races in residence in that country. They base their dominance on history and custom. They buttress their position with stringent laws. Not only are African trade unions not recognized in industrial bargaining, but only whites may legally possess firearms or be weapon-carrying members of the military and police forces.
Apartheid, an Afrikaner word meaning “apartness,” denotes official policies which can find their roots as far back as the first white settlement in 1652. Such segregation is based on sociological and theological assumptions that races are a basic division of the human species, and that each race had its own particular culture and destiny which cannot come to pass if subjected to races mingling within a common society.
Apartheid is a taboo in South African law as well as in custom. Every resident is, thus, officially classified by his race. And sexual relations of any kind between different races are severely punishable crimes.
Freud tells us, however, that such taboos in any society appear to represent two contradictory ideas. Those being (1) something desired, and (2) something feared. Thus, the wish and the prohibition of that wish are simultaneously repressed, and the desire to violate the taboo is born. Whenever a person breaks the taboo, he knows an aggressive pleasure coexisting with his fear of punishment It should not be so surprising, then, to assume that some South African whites, seeking simultaneous gratification of their sexual and aggressive instincts, do find occasions to break the apartheid laws. Nor, should it be surprising to assume that such violations take on certain sado-masochistic qualities which not only reaffirm white domination but keep delineated, even in sex, those existing master-slave relationships.
This novel, then, deals with such a rebellion against taboo. But, it is also concerned with other inner drives beyond the sexual. It deals with man’s search for wealth and power, with his search for what he believes will or will not make him happy. It deals with man’s search for freedom, while questioning whether or not unadulterated freedom really does, or even can, exist in the world we know today.
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