Of course what is perverse is always in the eye of the beholder, and we are all far away with no control of the outcome.
Yet we have a fetish relationship with the thing far away. We deny lack or we deny substance.
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And look here is "The Shrike" having excessive surplus joy saying I am rational, and look here is "fionwe1987" having excessive surplus joy pointing out the emperor has no clothes, and look here is me saying we are all perverts doing the excessive surplus joy spinning our wheels.
One must imagine Sisyphus happy / miserable.