"A story is a series of memories. Memories are remembered with other memories, and in turn become memories themselves. If you don't take care to preserve your memories, you'll forget them."

- Shigesato Itoi

We have a tendency to forget things. Some might call it a desire, others might say it's simply a human instinct. After all, we can't bear everything in our minds at once. It's not possible. We try our best to, and chronicle our stories through written word and song - but ultimately, it all disappears.

Jack Garland, our protagonist, is subject to this not only by the hands of time, but by a group of people beyond our natural conception of the universe. Time and time again, he is pulled from the people he cares about for the sake of creating their perfect world. He learns nothing from the experience and so continues to act out the same motions over and over. When his former best friend pleads Jack to tell him who he is, he merely responds with that man's generic fantasy archetype. The crystallized knowledge we hold so dear, temporary in reality as well as this fantasy, is removed directly from him by an alien force.

Mortality and entropy are able to be blamed upon imperialist and fascist systems. And Jack, unlike so many of us, gets to rage against them. He destroys their machines, he slaughters all the interest they have in continuing to meddle with his world. But they still exist.

Though he has found solace in their exorcism from his world, they will always haunt us. Even if he had managed to completely destroy them, they would still be there. Fascism relies on our power to forget. Our lives are a constant battle to make sure that doesn't happen. When one regime dies, its ideas continue to fester as the shadow that blinds us to the crimes of fascist ideology.

"Paradise" is no stranger to being disgusting.