Originally Posted by Greenwood618

A metaphor? Pure nonsense within AVRT.

You have two choices.

You can either accept the existence of the Beast as a perverted survival drive that really exists and hijacks the better judgement when not recognized and ignored via Big Plan.

Or you can reject the structural model of addiction and accept the disease model of addiction and its incumbent powerlessness, embrace of victimhood and desire to be coddled by the state, people at large and the medical/psychiatric apparatus that profits from enslaving people in victimhood.

No middle ground.

The Beast is no more a metaphor than the hunger you feel is a metaphor after missing lunch after working all day. It is no more a metaphor than the desire for a quart of water after working in the yard for two hours in the summer.