One thing you notice about repression is that it is meant to keep the forces of mimesis at bay, at least the forces that contradict its own mimetic platforms. You see this everywhere. Consider for example the routine parental admonition which insists that if one child gets a special privilege, everyone else is going to want it. Or you see this in the rigorous manner that security suppresses any aberrant behavior, such as someone wandering past some arbitrary gate. Or perhaps the vicious corporate behavior in which a company hires an army of lawyers to descend on even the most innocent act of unsanctioned brand usage.
If a given system of logic places a sanction on a given set of behaviors, then that set of behaviors must be suppressed at any cost, as the more people engage in them, the more the general behavior is expressed through imitation. This is complicated by the fact that this danger can be real or imagined by the powers that be.
The more unstable a system, the more the system is on the verge of expressing a behavior or a constellation of behaviors that are antagonistic to the system, the more there is a presence of fear within the system, the more violent, desperate, and unprovoked the powers of suppression are.
