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  • It is because the public are a mass inert, obtuse, and passive that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.

    Alfred Jarry (1961). “Ubu Roi”, p.175, New Directions Publishing