And this state of self-imposed imprisonment in an eternal "best of all possible worlds" (where we keep redefining "best" to mean "the freshest Hell we're being subjected to") is a key facet of the social technology that neofascists have used to build their own Dark Age, a vast empire of theft, suffering, cruelty and death, the spoils of which accrue only to the people who, until recently, built it and maintain it through control of the State, and when necessary, creating a calamity or two.
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