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'fear is well known as a cement of societies. in a liberal-capitalist economy fear of lack of money, fear of losing one's job, fear of slipping down one rung on the social ladder all spurred the individual to greater effort. but what exists in the imperium is *naked* fear. in a capitalist city with a population of one hundred thousand people, some ten thousand, let us say, may have been haunted by a fear of unemployment. such fear appeared to them to be a personal situation, tragic in view of the indifference and callousness of their environment. but if all one hundred thousand people life in daily fear, they give off a collective aura that hangs over the city like a heave cloud. gold alienates man from himself; naked fear, which has replaced capital, alienates him even more efficiently.' - czeslaw_milosz
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