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There is, in fact, no surprise here, since Shuman works and lives in Seattle, home of innumerable coffee shops and some of the nation's largest defense contractors, who reap billions annually from arms sales to the repressive regime of President Suharto.
While we may deplore that sex has become the dominating factor in many young people's lives, the goal should be to expand and emphasize the nonsexual means of personal expression ("liberation") available to them, not to return to the repressive and contaminating moral hypocrisies of a previous age.
regime is a repressive one that liberal Western democrats view with distaste: one could say that they could give “Paradise” a bad name had that been the new name chosen for their sad little country.
The more subversive Instinct gets in proclaiming free will an illusion fostered by a rigidly repressive society, the more captive it seems to a rigidly repressive studio marketing department.
"TRB" faults Clinton's moral reasoning in apologizing for American assistance to repressive Guatemalan regimes.