Reading Iron Curtain.
For the extraordinary achievement of Soviet communism . . . was the system's ability to get so many apolitical people in so many countries to play along without much protest.
Chapter 16, page 387, Anchor pb.
Pshaw.
Nothing to it.
Anybody can do it.
Everybody always has.
After all, that is exactly what apolitical people always do, and always have done.
They play along.
We play along.
Which is not at all to say we are taken in.
Recall the skeptic's maxim quoted by Montaigne.
"Live according to the customs of the country."
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