torture

[Nietzche]

As regards the interrogation of suspects, Benway has this to say:

While in general I avoid the use of torture – torture locates the opponent and mobilizes resistance – the threat of torture is useful to induce in the subject the necessary feeling of helplessness and gratitude to the interrogator for withholding it.

- william s. burroughs
Naked Lunch
And what we may think
Will always be tainted
By a logic inescapable
And what we feel must always be communicated
And the key thrown away
So in servitude we will labour
For a master, detained
We can only hope to rattle our chains
And pray the tug is felt
On the other end
In another time
In a distant place
From which we were removed
And from which we stray
Who holds the chains?
And snaps the whip?
Who casts the shadow?
And peers into the void?
you are not one of us
you exist on the outside
because we cast you away
and yet it has always been you on the other end of the chain
To find das nachts
And fear her presence
The specter which haunts
And the anxiety you provoke
We will ignore
as you will embrace
He has only fear
And an object of his distaste