Junger's the Forest Passage

In an oppressive state the mere act of voting, no where 98 % vote yes, is demanded and enforced by the state. Dictatorships cannot survive on pure affirmation. They need hate and with a terror to provide a simultaneous counterbalance. The man who votes no isn't trying to turn back to the old ways of democracy or any other specific prior political system. Those are dead and gone, along with his own past individual nature. He is on a new path. This is what yunger calls retrospection conducted by a small minority. In fact, i think that newness is a critical element in planning our own future. For reaction, something i n wish to implement after the