How our tendency to 'reflect' can initiate a reign of terror.

There is a sombre thing called reflection’, in which the self becomes its own object of relentless scrutiny and self-punishment. If one wants to keep a promise, one must burn memory into the will, submit to – or submit oneself to – a reign of terror in the name of morality, we must not break the promise,  administer pain to oneself in order to ensure one’s continuity and calculability through time within a calculable period of time, and so to become a calculable creature