Why would he fear a group he has sacrificed to join? As it is organized around irrationality, which is to say unpredictability. If it asserts human beings can change sex, Jews are the Devil, Israel is a slave state, borders are criminal, and so on, there is no way to insure himself against new, personally threatening absurdities. Indeed, the co-opted here is a prisoner subject to the vagaries of his jailers, now involved in the classic Prisoner’s Dilemma: Two accomplices are arrested for their crime. If both keep silent, they will both go free, but each risks the penalty if the other speaks
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