And so, in the absence of social custom and the hierarchy that such custom usually brings about, it is the opinions that today have become the major way of manifesting one’s presence in the world. But because we live in a democratic society, the surest way to achieve that goal is to join a large group of people united by having the same opinions. Even if such opinions are stereotyped, expressed in terms of deceptive concepts and in vulgar language full of stale banality that distorts the picture of reality and has a paralyzing effect on our faculties of thinking and perceiving, it is enough
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