**Links to**: [[Psychoanalysis]], [[Desire]], [[Desire and Capital]], [[Contradiction]], [[Evolution]]. From [[Gloria Wekker]]’s _[[White Innocence]]_: >“... Pim Fortuyn with his contradictory desires—rejecting Muslims and at the same time preferring them as his sexual partners in dark rooms—plays a pivotal role. His contradictory desires are straight from the colonial past and connect intimately to colonial sexual practices that were stored in the cultural archive.” But it puzzles us that this puzzles us. Not just because it’s puzzling (perplexing: _possibilistic_) but because it seems ‘obvious,’ too. Repression, hatred, disdain, disgust are strange phenomena, often highly revealing of desire. This makes perfect active inference sense: when psychologically/culturally ‘unpreferred’ states become rather salient, cognition keeps revisiting them, inevitably reinforcing their presence, essentially: reifying them (in more ways than one). Relatedly, we inevitably carry with us the violent rapists of the past: selection is a strange thing. Also: it is great how we divest of the rapists of the past, present and future. But it is a slow process.