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Yes, I think I know what you mean. That's what I was getting at when I said that a relatively comfortable life keeps many people from caring about anything on a bigger scale. As long as they can afford a car and a TV, there's no reason to demonstrate. Hardly anybody would protest against an incision of some kind that hurts others, but not himself. And hardly anyone would favour a political course that would sacrifice some of his own privileges and commodities for the sake of some kind of benefit for the entire society...