Passion is pacified. Desire is rationalized away. The forbidden remain forbidden. This supreme moment of misery marks nothing less than the triumph of amnesia. Such complete abandonment of life's adventure is the surrender of one who has forgotten all previous rebellion and all previous desire to revolt.
Amnesia is the colonization of memory.
One is forced to forget everything rebellious about one's life. The colonized mind is less likely to imagine a total revolt against this society if all traces of earlier revolts are suppressed. One is in despair over the absence of past freedom simply because the residue of past freedoms have been purged from one's memory. When asked how one knows that freedom is possible the rebel responds with examples of past freedoms. The rebel remembers the events, movements, and moments of one's past that mark breaks with the dominant order.