The is the Shadow projected onto the world. When a culture or individual insists they have achieved perfection (a perfect marriage, a perfect society, a perfect body), the demon inevitably emerges. Not to punish, but to balance.
David Lynch’s film Blue Velvet opens with white picket fences and roses, only to reveal a severed ear in a field. Lynch’s entire oeuvre is a study of the —the rot beneath the manicured lawn, the violence in the quiet town, the perversion behind the friendly neighbor. The demon asks: How much evil can a paradise tolerate before it becomes hell? Dark Demon Of Paradise
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