People who have nearly internalized the defense of society and civilization as a duty, and who are not even worth talking about, are very numerous.

 People who have nearly internalized the defense of society and civilization as a duty, and who are not even worth talking about, are very numerous. They attempt to undermine an individual’s reality, trying to prove to them that they “know life more intimately.” This is because these people have, indeed, integrated themselves into society. By embedding themselves in societal structures, they gain an identity inseparable from them. Otherwise, why would someone with no place in the social machine still insistently defend it? However, the point at which they are rotten—for which they always have ready words to argue—is that they take society as reality and civilization to be life itself.