....(maybe that should be 'alarming') how long a precarious balance can be maintained. We look at a situation and think, 'This is unsustainable.' Then discover that it keeps going for a long time. People are inclined, wherever possible, to continue the status quo, rather than to overturn it. So they come up with new ways to make do and mend. They patch up problems and paper over the cracks in unsatisfactory structures.
That's how a set of undesirable circumstances has manages to remain in existence for so long.
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
(Henri-Frederic Amiel)
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