News headline: List of stores and restaurants participating in the January 23 protests
OBSERVATION: It is a modern political principle that the underlying motive and the messaging of one's exact attitudes don't ever have to align. One could be terrified of going against the mob (even secretly despising them), while paying lip service to their cause. In fact, there may be considerable marketing upside in doing so! /s
RELEVANCE: As modern consequentialists, modern man cares about the effects of his allegiances only. And so, could those not change day-by-day depending on where the winds of fortune take us (meaning where power and influence are presently located)? Besides, between social survival or human dignity, most will choose survival. This is "common sense", don't you know? Who can afford the high premium on human dignity? Self-abasement is therefore the more morally sound option and counts as almost sacrificial in nature. /s
MAXIM 1 of a "Postmodern La Rochefoucauld": It has been said that the right hand should not know what the left is doing (Matthew 6:3); even so, this was the advice given to saints, not to us political men! Indeed, for those of us Machiavels in the know, the only rule is that there are exceptions to every rule: In this instance, the right hand should only know the left is doing only when it comes to the washing of both (Matthew 27:24). /s
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