The Fortress offers security, control, a sense of self, a sense of dignity—a stable identity. In any Fortress, the inhabitants are all cut from the same cloth. As far as they know, they share the same historical experience, the same culture, the same religion, and, if possible, the same ethnicity. They remain convinced that liberty cannot be valid for everyone, that equality is an illusion, and that solidarity should be directed toward one’s own kind.
