Strypey<p>&quot;A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system [with] no sense of responsibility for anything higher than his or her own personal survival, is a demoralized person. The system depends on this demoralization, deepens it, is in fact a projection of it into society.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/V%C3%A1clavHavel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VáclavHavel</span></a>, quoted in &#39;The Immortal King Rao&#39; by Vauhini Vara</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/demoralization" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>demoralization</span></a></p>