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Civilization and Its Hypnotic Inversion: The Rise and Fall of Human Progress Re: Gaza
Ned Lud
Foreword: A Mirror Without Distortion
We are not living through a war. We are living through a ritual sacrifice of children. One where civilization itself-its memory, its institutions, its ethical spine-is being sacrificed on the altar of technological power and theological delusion. The razing of Gaza is not a tactical campaign but a civilizational indictment: a mirror without distortion, in which the world stares, hypnotized, at its own inversion.
Think of Gaza as a Hormel or Armour slaughterhouse, with cattle prods and cruel devices to dispatch the prey, only substitute little children being pushed through the chutes.
This is not a religious critique, nor a racial tirade. It is a forensic dissection of a global psychosis, wherein the very concepts that once defined human progress-science, ethics, reason, philosophy-have been turned inside out and redeployed as instruments of annihilation. Lavender AI does not merely kill; it categorizes souls by algorithm, delegitimizes innocence by code, and automates genocide with the sterile detachment of a Silicon Messiah.
This essay will not apologize for truth. It will not feign objectivity where moral clarity is required. We will not call the perpetrators "partners in peace." We will not reduce genocide to a "complex conflict." The task at hand is not diplomatic-it is diagnostic. And what we are diagnosing is a metastasis of the mind: a collective hypnosis so deep that the machinery of human progress now serves the machinery of human erasure.
To bear witness is not enough. One must unmask. Dissect. Name. So, we begin with the long arc of human civilization-what it was, what it aspired to be-before examining how it has been hijacked by mass delusion, engineered by computation, and sanctified by human blood.
History is not repeating itself. It is being inverted. Israel and America have inverted sociology, psychology, humanity, civilization; all of these inverted by bastardized ones and zeros.
II. From Nomads to Builders: The Genesis of Civilization
Civilization did not begin with conquest. It began with rhythm. With the cadence of flood and harvest, of sun and solstice, of stars pinned to maps in the minds of early astronomers. The transition from nomadic survivalism to agrarian permanence was not merely economic-it was metaphysical. It was the moment humanity chose continuity over chaos, time over territory, and story over slaughter.
Somewhere between the banks of the Euphrates and the shadows of the Zagros, a new species of human emerged-not biologically altered, but sociologically reimagined. These were the Sumerians, the Akkadians, the Elamites, the early Iranians, and proto-Canaanites. Not wanderers, but builders. Not raiders, but record-keepers. They observed the heavens and inscribed them in clay. They mapped the seasons not for amusement, but for sustenance. They named the constellations not to control the gods, but to commune with them.
What they built was not merely infrastructure-it was infrastructure braided with meaning. The ziggurat, the granary, the irrigation canal-each carried more than utility. Each was a physical invocation of cosmic order. Writing systems like cuneiform and early hieroglyphs were not tools of propaganda, but instruments of continuity-used to archive grain yields, record lunar eclipses, preserve myth, contract marriages, codify law. These societies birthed law not as a weapon of kings, but as a membrane of mutual responsibility.
This civilizational blossoming was not limited to the Fertile Crescent. While Ur and Babylon flickered in the Near East, the Nile Valley etched its theological statecraft in limestone and starlight. The Harappans engineered grid-planned cities and municipal drainage in bronze-age India before war even entered their lexicon. Ancient China distilled metallurgy, ethics, and kinship into a seamless bureaucratic metaphysic. The Andes cradled cosmological governance and agronomic genius in the architecture of the Inca. The early ice-age settlements of the Czech basin left behind sacred geometries and shamanic figurines before the pyramids had blueprints.
Across continents, the common thread of progress was not domination-but pattern. Pattern as comprehension. Pattern as respect for cause and effect. Pattern as the preliminary form of science, the DNA of philosophy, the womb of religion. To be civilized was to recognize interdependence-not just between man and man, but between man and cosmos.
And yet, that ancient pact is now severed. Not by accident. By design.
For what we call “progress” today-datafied war, ideological supremacy, predictive policing, psychographic weaponry-is not a continuation of this lineage. It is its perversion. A thing built not to sustain the future but to control its decay. Israel’s AI-guided military programs and America’s exportation of psychotechnologies are not the fruits of civil society-they are the frayed circuitry of its inversion. Their intellectual ancestry is not Mesopotamia or Meroë or the Mayan stelae. Their ancestors are algorithms born in laboratories designed to simulate omniscience and operationalize murder.
We begin here to remember what civilization was. So, we may better recognize what it is no longer.
III. What Makes a Civilization Flourish
Civilization does not flourish through conquest. It flourishes through coherence.
The world's great civilizational engines-Sumer, Egypt, Persia, Mali, India, China, the Andes-were not accidental aggregations of territory. They were symphonies of interdependence. Their greatness was not measured in body counts or border walls but in how they distributed wisdom, ritualized justice, and harnessed human potential into forms of durable order.
What, then, are the atomic elements of civilizational flourishing?
1. Ethical Infrastructure.
The early civilizations were not perfect, but they understood that stability could not be imposed solely by force. Hammurabi’s Code, however draconian by modern standards, was a leap forward in the articulation of public ethics. Egyptian Ma’at wove law and morality into the fabric of the cosmos. Confucian bureaucracies in China instilled virtue as a precondition for authority. These systems prioritized the principle that order must be just-or it would not be order at all.
2. Education as Continuity.
From the temple schools of Mesopotamia to the academies of Nalanda and the Islamic Golden Age libraries of Baghdad, successful civilizations have always seen knowledge as sacred. Not proprietary, not militarized, not a commodity-but a vessel of continuity. They invested in literacy, astronomy, medicine, metallurgy, cartography-not to dominate, but to know. Today’s surveillance academies-funded by military think tanks and colonial ministries-do not educate. They condition.
3. Shared Cosmology.
A flourishing civilization does not need uniform belief. It requires a shared grammar of meaning. The Inca calibrated their empire with the stars; the Vedic Indians tuned their rituals to the movements of time. The Mayans charted celestial logic in step with earthly governance. Where such shared cosmologies prevailed, people aligned their labor with something greater than consumption or conquest. Today, we have algorithms in place of oracles, and predictive analytics instead of prayer. The result is not more wisdom-but less wonder.
4. Respect for the Human Substrate.
No society that cannibalizes its own people lasts. Great civilizations developed roads not to move armies but to connect markets. They built aqueducts not to display dominance but to hydrate the public. When power serves the commons, civilization thrives. When the commons are sacrificed to preserve power, collapse is a matter of time.
5. The Recognition of Reciprocity.
The first cities did not form by pillaging neighboring villages-they formed by cultivating networks of trust, trade, and shared labor. Civilizations grew when farmers could trade with weavers, when potters could rely on blacksmiths, when artisans were not conscripted into ideological war machines. Inverted civilizations-like the United States and Israel today-do the opposite: they pillage under the pretense of partnership, invade in the name of defense, and destroy the very reciprocity that makes society possible.
History does not remember civilizations by their GDP. It remembers them by their grace-how they negotiated power, how they treated the vulnerable, how they dealt with knowledge, and how they mapped meaning onto the world without turning it into a prison.
This is what makes a civilization flourish.
And it is precisely what is being dismantled before our eyes-in Gaza, in Rafah, in every city surveilled by satellites and policed by predictive profiling.
The inversion is not just moral. It is structural. Where once we built temples to house the divine, we now build bunkers to hide from our own reflection.
IV. The Rot of Autocracy: How Civilizations Collapse
Civilizations do not fall because of foreign invasion alone. They fall when they forget what they were meant to be.
The erosion begins subtly-through decree, through dogma, through the seduction of certainty. A whisper becomes a doctrine, a fear becomes a policy, a prejudice becomes a law. The ruling class no longer rules by merit, but by inheritance, coercion, surveillance. Prophets are replaced by bureaucrats, and the bureaucrats replaced by algorithms. The soul atrophies before the walls collapse.
Let us examine the pattern, for it is always the same.
1. The Rise of Unaccountable Power
From the Pharaohs who declared themselves gods, to the Roman emperors who burned the Senate into irrelevance, to modern strongmen cloaked in suits and national flags-civilizations rot when power detaches from responsibility. The moment governance becomes spectacle, the body politic begins to fester.
Israel today exemplifies this principle with surgical clarity. Its leaders, unbound by law, unrepentant in war, operate with divine impunity backed by artificial precision. Its occupation is not merely military-it is metaphysical, waged against the very notion of a shared human fabric. Likewise, the American state-paralyzed by corporate capture, militarized policing, and the pageantry of electoral illusion-no longer governs. It consumes.
The result: power without truth, law without justice, strength without legitimacy.
2. The Rot of Institutional Delusion
Autocracies cannot tolerate reflection. They replace historians with propagandists. They criminalize dissent as sabotage. They surround themselves with sycophants who mirror their insecurities back as strength. In the final stages, they believe their own lies.
Ancient Rome burned under emperors who believed divine favor excused their decadence. The Soviet Union collapsed not from invasion, but from the weight of its internal falsehoods. Nazi Germany paved its own incinerated path with racial mysticism and eugenic precision-and fell into the very abyss it dug for others.
Modern Zionism has entered this phase of terminal self-deception. It sees itself as eternal victim, eternal redeemer, eternal exception. It wears its historical trauma like armor while committing traumas of its own design. And America, no less deluded, projects democracy from drone strikes and freedom from riot shields.
What is this but a psychotic civilization? A society so divorced from feedback that it accelerates its own demise while demanding applause.
3. Genocide as Civilizational Suicide
There is no more definitive marker of a dying civilization than the state-sanctioned slaughter of the Other. Genocide is not simply murder-it is erasure: of memory, of potential, of the moral pretense that held the society together.
The Khmer Rouge tried to eliminate history and were buried by it. The Belgian colonists in Congo extracted bodies until their own kingdom decayed from moral exhaustion. Nazi Germany institutionalized annihilation, and in doing so, extinguished its own claim to civilization.
Now, Israel repeats the pattern. Lavender AI selects human targets by probabilistic genocide. Entire families are vaporized not by accident, but by computation. Gaza is not collateral-it is the lab. The pilot project. The prototype for algorithmic extermination with global spectatorship and American sponsorship.
Genocide is not the behavior of strength. It is the scream of a dying empire too afraid to look inward.
And so, the rot continues: disguised as self-defense, sanctified as survival, and funded as foreign aid.
When civilizations collapse, they do not always fall with fanfare. Sometimes they fall in silence-because their people were too hypnotized to notice. Gaza is not a battlefield. It is the tombstone of international conscience.
V. Inverted Civilization: Israel, America, and the New Anti-Progress
Where civilization once meant elevation-of wisdom, dignity, coexistence-it now means domination. The term itself has been hijacked, inverted, and retrofitted to serve the architecture of permanent war.
Israel and America, once self-proclaimed beacons of liberty and law, now model what might be called anti-civilization-a metastasizing system where knowledge is weaponized, religion is inverted, sociology is deconstructed, and progress is measured in surveillance fidelity and blast radius. Their leaders do not build pyramids; they build psyops. Their prophets are “defense”-contractor lobbyists. Their gods demand sacrifice-not of cattle, but of conscience.
This is not civilization. It is the mathematical precision of barbarism dressed in the regalia of modernity.
1. Zionism as Inverted Religion
Zionism has not resurrected the spiritual heart of Judaism-it has calcified it, militarized it, and turned it against itself. In its modern form, Zionism is not a theology but a territorial algorithm. It no longer speaks in psalms but in spreadsheets-maps, parcels, permits, kill lists. The moral teachings of the prophets-Amos, Isaiah, Jeremiah-have been replaced by bureaucratic incantations: permits denied, homes demolished, borders erased.
Inverted religion takes the language of liberation and contorts it into a liturgy of supremacy. It baptizes surveillance, canonizes apartheid, and silences the actual heirs of Semitic history-Arab Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike.
Israel does not represent a rebirth of Jewish civilization. It represents the inversion of its ethical DNA.
2. America as the Priest of Digital Delusion
If Israel is the pilot program of inverted civilization, America is its global distributor.
No empire has done more to collapse the architecture of enlightenment than the United States. Once the laboratory of constitutional thought, it now exports a surveillance theology: facial recognition in lieu of diplomacy, drone strikes instead of treaties, algorithmic governance over deliberative democracy.
Its universities produce AI war protocols. Its journalists regurgitate Pentagon-approved psyops. Its leaders recite moral mantras while subsidizing genocide. This is not a republic-it is a branded hallucination, where elections pacify and debt anesthetizes. The poor are militarized. The rich are immunized. The truth is criminalized.
This is not decay. It is design.
3. Lavender AI & Talpiot: The Weaponization of Knowledge
Once, mathematics measured time. Now it calibrates death.
Lavender AI-a predictive assassination engine devised by Israel and backed by Western technocrats-is the apotheosis of inverted civilization. It does not simply kill. It automates the very logic of extermination. Targets are selected not by trial, not by intelligence, but by statistical correlation. A man texts his cousin and is flagged. A woman opens her phone and becomes “operational.” Children appear too often in a suspect’s GPS vicinity and are algorithmically erased.
This is not warfare. It is database genocide.
The Talpiot Program, meanwhile, harvests Israel’s top minds to advance military supremacy through tech. These are not scholars-they are engineers of dystopia. Their tools do not elevate humanity; they refine control. Their output is not knowledge-it is architecture for the mechanized erasure of the Other.
This is not progress. It is the anti-Enlightenment-Newton’s laws repurposed to vaporize families, Galileo’s gaze now focused on occupied rooftops, Einstein’s brilliance twisted into biometric apartheid.
4. Inverted Sociology: From Social Fabric to Psywar Matrix
A functioning society needs cohesion. Shared meaning. A social contract. Inverted civilizations do the opposite: they fracture. Divide. Medicate. Hypnotize.
In Israel, this takes the form of literal apartheid. Separate roads, schools, legal codes. Entire communities confined behind walls taller than memory. In America, the fracture is pharmacological and digital. A drugged population-opioids, stimulants, screens-wanders through a curated hallucination of freedom while their rights, wages, and futures are algorithmically dismantled.
The sociological inversion is so complete that citizens no longer see one another as kin, but as competitors, threats, statistics, or shadows. Solidarity is criminal. Community is subversive. And empathy is treated like a virus to be quarantined.
In place of society, we have social media. In place of culture, we have content. In place of dialogue, we have dopamine.
We are not watching the next phase of civilization.
We are watching its mirror image. Its algorithmic parody. Its final grotesque metamorphosis-where genocide is policy, religion is racialized, science is militarized, and humanity itself is reduced to metadata for elimination.
If Mesopotamia marked the birth of civilization, Gaza marks the autopsy.
VI. The Inevitable Fall: Rebellion, Revolution, or Ruin
There is a moment in every empire’s trajectory when its internal contradictions become too vast, too open, too suffocating to ignore. It is the moment when the grand edifice-once held aloft by the illusion of invincibility-starts to crumble from the inside. The rot that was once invisible becomes inescapable. The decay cannot be hidden by more propaganda or rebranded as security. It is exposed. And when that moment arrives, the only question is not whether the empire will fall, but how.
History, unlike the modern narratives spun by technocrats and their puppets, does not operate on a straight line. It bends, it swerves, and it collapses in unanticipated spirals of disintegration. The question is not whether the United States or Israel will face their own apocalyptic unraveling. The question is which path they will choose: rebellion from within, revolution from the masses, or slow, inevitable ruin.
1. History’s Warning: No Empire Survives This Path
The illusion of empire is a seductive one. In its early days, Israel presented itself as the “chosen state,” blessed with military prowess, economic vigor, and global backing. The United States wrapped itself in the mantle of liberty, democracy, and world leadership. But empires are fragile. They are not eternal. They are sustained not by their conquests, but by the integrity of their foundations.
Rome believed itself eternal until it wasn’t. The British Empire collapsed not through foreign conquest, but by the sheer weight of its internal contradictions-its overextension, its debt, and the insatiable thirst for resources. The Soviet Union, despite its towering military might, imploded under the pressure of its own inefficiency, corruption, and the rebellion of its satellite states. Each of these empires believed that its power would last forever-until it didn’t.
Israel, though newly emboldened, faces this same contradiction. It is a state that continually expands its borders at the expense of its humanity. America, meanwhile, strains at the seams under the weight of corporate control, unaccountable surveillance, and a hollowed-out social contract. The mechanisms of power may look robust, but like Rome’s legions and Stalin’s tanks, they are hollow shells.
2. Rebellion from Within: The Mutiny of the Oppressed
The greatest danger to any autocracy is not foreign invasion, but domestic insurrection. It is in the dark corners of society where resentment festers. It is in the minds of the disenfranchised, the impoverished, the marginalized, and the oppressed, where revolution is born. What we are witnessing, in both the United States and Israel, is not the slow death of empires from external forces-but the brewing storm of domestic rebellion.
In Israel, the anger is not only external. It is internal. The Palestinian resistance to occupation is a mirrored reflection of the dissatisfaction growing within Israel’s own borders. The disillusioned youth, who see their country’s soul slowly eroded by its policy of apartheid, may one day rise-not as Palestinians but as Jews who have realized that their future is incompatible with this trajectory.
In America, the fracture is even more pronounced. A nation that once prided itself on democracy is now in the throes of racial division, economic inequality, and police militarization. Resistance movements, from Black Lives Matter to Occupy Wall Street, are signs that rebellion is not only possible but inevitable. When the social contract is severed-when the state no longer serves its citizens but controls them-the seeds of revolt are sown.
And both countries-the self-appointed paragons of freedom-are pushing themselves ever closer to the breaking point.
3. Revolution from the Masses: When the Subjugated Rise
When rebellion fails to mend the system, revolution is the next logical step. It is a phenomenon of human history-both frightening and inevitable. Revolutions are not born from the whims of a few discontented radicals, but from the simmering disillusionment of entire societies. The French Revolution, the Bolshevik Revolution, the American Revolution-all were ignited by the same dissatisfaction with ruling elites that became too disconnected from the people’s reality.
In the case of Israel and the United States, the revolution may not come with the guillotine or the storming of the Bastille. It will come with the slow, unrelenting pressure of millions of people who can no longer accept the inversion of civilization. It will not be a coup, but a systemic shift-a deconstruction of the systems that sustain these empires. A new global order, one that respects human dignity, that seeks justice, that values freedom above surveillance, may emerge from the rubble.
The current resistance movements, from the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign to labor strikes in the U.S., are not merely protests. They are the early tremors of the tectonic shift that will shake the foundations of these inverted states.
4. Ruin: The Silent Death of the Empire
If rebellion and revolution fail-if the autocratic machinery is too entrenched, too technologically sophisticated, and too violently opposed to reform-the final fate of empire is ruin. Not the dramatic collapse of walls and towers, but the slow, rot-filled decay of a society that once believed itself invincible.
Ruin does not announce itself. It moves in shadows. It feeds on apathy, fear, and ignorance. It manifests in shrinking public services, crumbling infrastructure, systemic corruption, and the normalization of violence. Empires do not fall in one mighty blow; they sink slowly, as the oppressive systems they built begin to suffocate the very lifeblood that once made them great.
Israel and America are careening toward this silent death. A society that cannot sustain its citizens, that does not recognize the humanity of the Other, that substitutes truth with propaganda and power with violence, will eventually collapse under its own weight.
This is not a prediction. It is a conclusion drawn from history, from the evidence that we are already witnessing. The question is not if they will collapse-but when.
VII. The Necropsy of Civilization: The Inevitable Fall of Israel and America
What we are witnessing today is not the collapse of civilization-it is its slow and deliberate dissection. The dismemberment of society, not by the sword, but by the very architects of its destruction: Israel and America, each gripped by the same delusional zeal that fueled the imperialist nightmares of the past. This is not a fall-it is a death. It is the death of morality. The death of truth. The death of a civilization that once prided itself on enlightenment and human progress. And as with all deaths, there will be no great reckoning-no Nuremberg, no tribunal to indict these new architects of annihilation. Only the charred corpses of the forgotten.
1. The New Waffen SS: The Global Architect of Genocide
What began as a world power with an idealized vision of democracy and liberty has become a genocidal juggernaut. Israel, once a symbol of hope for the oppressed, now stands as the epitome of an apartheid state, its actions indistinguishable from the worst war crimes of the twentieth century. And America, with its once-proclaimed moral supremacy, has become its unyielding enabler-spreading its venomous policies of destruction worldwide. Together, these two entities have birthed the new Waffen SS-an empire of terror wrapped in the veneer of democracy and freedom.
Unlike the original Waffen SS, which saw its demise at the hands of the Nuremberg Trials, there will be no such justice for this modern iteration. There will be no tribunal to try those who have crafted a system of oppression so totalitarian in its reach, so grotesque in its application, that it can no longer be called a civilization-it is simply a machine. A cold, heartless machine of perpetual violence and surveillance.
The people of Gaza are not the only victims. The citizens of America, too, are slowly becoming its casualties-stripped of dignity, autonomy, and even the most basic of rights under the surveillance state. Yet even as they are bound by invisible chains, they continue to cheer on their oppressors, hypnotized by the spectacle of war and the media’s orchestrated distractions. They have become the willing accomplices in their own downfall.
2. The Hypnotized Masses: The Spectacle of Violence as Entertainment
Meanwhile, the world watches. The hypnotized masses, lulled by the noise of their own consumption, watch as Gaza burns. They watch as the bodies pile up. They watch as the children are murdered, their lives erased by algorithms designed in Tel Aviv, and yet they do nothing. They cheer, they justify, they look away.
In America, the spectacle is more subtle. It is the drones that fly overhead in silence, the domestic surveillance programs that monitor your every move, the creeping authoritarianism that slowly erodes civil liberties. But they have grown accustomed to the sight of their freedoms withering like leaves in autumn. The people are numb, sedated by the illusion of democracy while their rights are eroded under the weight of state-sponsored surveillance and violence. The American public has been conditioned to believe in the righteousness of its own empire, in the nobility of its wars, in the inevitability of its superiority.
But this too is an illusion. This is not civilization-it is empire, pure and simple. And empires, in all their glory, are built on the suffering of others. The suffering of Palestinians, of Black Americans, of marginalized communities everywhere.
3. No Reckoning, No Justice: The Lack of an International Tribunal
Perhaps the greatest tragedy of all is the absence of any reckoning. No tribunal will rise to hold Israel accountable for its crimes. No international court will rise to indict the United States for its complicity in war crimes. No Nuremberg will ever come for the architects of Lavender AI and Talpiot-those who have weaponized technology, who have transformed knowledge into a tool of slaughter. These crimes will go unpunished, buried under layers of geopolitical expediency, under the indifference of the international community.
The world’s governments, complicit in the systems of violence and oppression, will look away, excusing their silence with the same justifications that were used in the past: "We must stand by our allies," "We must defend freedom," "We must protect democracy." But in truth, they are not protecting democracy-they are protecting empire. They are protecting the structures that allow them to benefit from war, from violence, from subjugation.
And as the bodies pile up in Gaza, as the streets of America grow more militarized, as the lives of the poor and the marginalized are sacrificed at the altar of imperialism, the world watches. And does nothing.
4. The Rot from Within: The Slow Death of Civilization
In the end, these civilizations will not collapse in a sudden, dramatic explosion. There will be no heroic moment of rebellion, no great revolution that restores the world to its rightful order. What we are witnessing is the slow rot from within. A civilization that has turned inward, that has abandoned its foundational principles of justice, equity, and compassion, cannot survive. It will slowly decay, as the internal contradictions become too great to ignore. But the world will not mourn it. There will be no tears shed for Israel or America as they slowly sink into the abyss of their own making.
History will not remember the leaders of these states as visionaries or revolutionaries. They will remember them as architects of their own doom-those who, in the pursuit of power, forgot the one truth that every civilization must remember: you cannot build on the foundation of suffering and violence without eventually becoming buried by it.
And so, Israel and America, like every empire before them, will collapse-not in flames, but in silence. The silence of a world that stood by and did nothing. The silence of a people who allowed their leaders to create the next Waffen SS and let it run rampant across the globe.
5. The Final Epilogue: The End of the Age of Empires
We are at the end of an era. The age of empire is drawing to a close, not with a bang, but with a whimper. The great empires of the past-Rome, Britain, the Soviet Union-died because they grew too bloated, too corrupt, and too cruel. The new empires-the U.S., Israel-will meet the same fate. Not from foreign invaders, but from the implosion of their own moral rot.
And yet, there will be no dramatic reckoning. There will be no Nuremberg Trials for those who have perpetrated these crimes. The world will simply move on, as it always does, indifferent to the suffering of the millions caught in the gears of the machine. The holy and the cosmic are now inverted to the unclean and the non-cosmic.
This is the end of civilization. Not as an event, but as a process. And the question we must all ask ourselves is not whether it will end, but whether we will learn anything from its end.
"There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part, you can’t even tacitly take part." – Mario Savio
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