“Men seek stranger sins or more startling obscenities as stimulants to their jaded sense. They seek after mad oriental religions for the same reason. They try to stab their nerves to life, if it were with the knives of the priests of Baal. They are walking in their sleep and try to wake themselves up with nightmares.”
-- G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
Tomorrow: What Makes the Regulator Regulate?