Suppression, 18

The study and isolation of the above schemes and tacticts are a much needed and commendable feat, but now let’s set them aside and let’s talk even more seriously. Because, even if these behaviours may stick out, on the other hand they may suggest the idea that having to do with such people – directly – is the exception. Not that having to do with them – directly or indirectly – is the RULE.

Every individual, every day, makes a number of decisions, even by not deciding, and carries out a number of actions, even by not acting. This amounts to a vast quantity of decisions and non−decisions, of actions and non−actions. How many of them are influenced, directly or indirectly, by such people, to what degree, how unwittingly on the part of others, and with what results, actually?

There’s more to it here than meets the eye: both in the sense that not all suppressives are that conspicuous and easy to detect, and that their fallout in turn is less conspicuous and much wider, deeper and socially, globally harmful that it may seem at first sight on the basis of the above. So once again is a matter of proceeding systematically as usual: isolating the common denominator and mapping its fallout in whole.