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[MNToothpick]

"The long dialogue among human beings has now come to an end.  And of course a man who cannot be persuaded is a man who makes others afraid.  So that alongside people who stopped speaking because they deemed it pointless to try, a vast conspiracy of silence has arisen and continues to spread, a conspiracy accepted by those who quake in fear and who find every reason in the world to hide their quaking from themselves, and encouraged by those who find it in their interest to do so."  Albert Camus, November 19, 1946.