philosophy, that's like a psychological, you know, crutch, basically. And the need for identity is still there. And the need for fake community is still there. And all those things are still there. If anything, they've kind of been made naked. You just have the psychological pulsating needs now with no veneer of ideology or much less of a veneer of ideology. And I think you see the same here. When they came up trying to come up with a name for the Putin Youth Group, which was openly modeled on the Hitler-Yugand, they didn't call it young Komsomol or Hitler-Yugand or young whatever, they just called it Nashi. Us. So there's us and there's them. So the need to define yourself, or none of that goes away. The psychological underbelly, if anything, is revealed. So as long as there's nothing in freedom, there's just these psychological needs and fears and inability to make sense of the world. And, you know, the need for warped, sadomasochistic father figures, all that stuff is there. So in (42/57)
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