Noted French philosopher and pedophile Michel Foucault once observed that censorship, in fact, demands more illicit speech. To ban speech, one must classify and observe and document, conjuring up new vocabularies for unspeakable words.

In discussing the age of repression of the Bourgeoise societies, Foucault stated, "the tightening up of the rules of decorum likely did produce, as a countereffect, a valorization and intensification of indecent speech".

Opie and Anthony's own era of repression began on July 3rd of 2014, when Nietschean philosopher Anthony Cumia was fired for a series of experimental tweets. What I propose to document here is the true impact of repression on two of the chief luminaries of the Opie and Anthony Universe: Anthony Cumia, mentioned above, and James Joseph Norton Jr.

It is a noted psychological principal that obsession leads to assimilation. It was very well what Foucault was observing with his documentation of failed censorship. And it is this simple fact of psychoanalysis that led to their respective success and failure.

Norton, whose sexual proclivities walled him off from blue collar society, found his place in the comedy world. The United States places no value on maintaining an intelligentsia, and its closest replacement is in the East Coast "comedy scene", where-in individuals such as Norton rise to prominence through scathing critiques of the failings of capitalism (of which, as the original comedian Karl Marx observed, there are many).

Norton's chief fixation was the illusive "hack comedian", one who lacks the sharp reflexes needed. Norton channeled his fixation through the character of "Chip".

With the demise of Opie and Anthony, Norton had no distractions. His fixation with "hacks" grew and grew until Norton had assimilated them entirely: Norton launched a podcast as Chip which eclipsed his radio show's success. Thus, Norton was no longer playing Chip, but rather Chip playing Norton. Obsession led to assimilation, but here also to success.

Cumia's fixations took him down a darker road, figuratively and literally. Obsessed with racist preconceptions of African Americans, Cumia underwent a transformation that disconcerted friends and enemies alike. As photographic records will attest, he gradually left the white race. The obvious connection is to Rachel Dolezal, though in my view the better comparison is with Martina Adam.

Having embraced his trans-racial status, Anthony Cumia then performed the prophecy he had set for himself: in 2015 he was arrested for criminal strangulation. Thus, Cumia became what he feared most: a person of color with a criminal record.