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As a society, we often legalize our perversions and punish what heals us. To cope with our confusion, psychoanalysis recommends the realization of our collective unconscious into our conscious through sublimation. While this channeling of our darkness into creativity might create catharsis, our moral compass remains mired in ambiguity. Underground Orange points towards the contradictions of an increasingly deceptive world where the internet is real and the news is fake, where the medium confuses the message.

While we once outlawed atheism, polyamory, miscegenation and pornography, today these practices flourish. For an open-minded society, the realization of the injustice of these former taboos accomplishes a step towards freedom. But when we dig further into our inconsistencies, we find the opposite happening with a deeper layer of our neurosis. People everywhere continue to accept economic instability, political corruption, femicide and queerphobia as bi-products of capitalism and urbanization. We are long tired of tolerating the effects of heteronormativity.

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As a group that denounces injustice, we have always been here and we won’t go away. We abhor the lack of acceptance for queer lives in public spaces, dialogues and in the collective conscious. Queer people—and by this term we mean people embodying unconventional sexualities, genders, fashions or forms of romance—everywhere still live in fear of public shame and brutality in the same way that poor people everywhere still pay off the debts of the rich. Monogamy still reigns in a world where binary love is just a social construct meant to protect private property. But love is not a possessive bond between two people any more than a love affair is a healthy transgression to save a marriage, or the black market is a sane alternative to cure an economy that continues to be the food of vulture funds. So why do we live in a bubble?

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Although many of us have undergone psychoanalysis, we continue to eschew it in favor of palliatives like pharmaceuticals and shopping. Artists posing as shrinks perform the task anyway, even if they don't intend it. Yet if more people deliberate in their efforts to explore their own repressed desires, as a society we would take another step towards freedom. As a means, then, Underground Orange epitomizes the rationality of a world unwilling to face its paradoxes and proposes a philosophical approach towards self-realization and self-expression rooted in the subconscious.

So why do people increasingly favor false realism over the real examination of our fiction? The presumption lies in compensating for the death of truth in the media and the birth of cyberspace replacing what before was dream analysis. However, we cannot accept a beauty filter over truth. By confronting our inner life through metaphor, we defamiliarize our own banality. In this way, our self-discovery becomes a form of social protest, uniting the conscious with the unconscious, the real with the fictitious in pursuit of balance. It is therefore that we must advocate not only for the separation of the church from the state, but more importantly, the separation of truth from the system of binaries.