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• Monsieur Gustave H. The Grand Budapest Hotel

Worry prevents individuals from fully facing their fears. Thus, it rewards the worrier in the short term by reducing their negative reaction to feared stimuli.

"I demand whether all wars, bloodshed and misery came not upon the creation when one man endeavored to be a lord over another? ... And whether this misery shall not remove ... when all the branches of mankind shall look upon the earth as one common treasury to all." - Gerrard Winstanley, The New Law of Righteousness, 1649

"La Phalange analyses penal affairs as a confrontation coded by 'civilization', the great crimes not as monstrosities, but as the fatal return and revolt of what is repressed, the minor illegalities not as the necessary margins of society, but as a rumbling from the midst of the battle-field." - Foucault, Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison