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Individuals need not believe in [the system], but they must behave as though they did, or they must at least tolerate [it] in silence … For this reason, however, they must live within a lie. They need not accept the lie. It is enough for them to have accepted their life with it and in it. For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.
“The Power of the Powerless” by Vaclav Havel