Reply #5: By breaking the rules of the game [View All]

(the dissident) has disrupted the game as such. He has exposed it as a mere game. He has shattered the world of appearances, the fundamental pillar of the system. He has upset the power structure by tearing apart what holds it together. He has demonstrated that living a lie is living a lie. He has broken the exalted façade of the system and exposed the real, base foundations of power. He has said that the emperor is naked. And because the emperor in fact is naked, something extremely dangerous has happened: by his action, the (dissident) has addressed the world. He has enabled everyone to peer behind the curtain. He has shown everyone that it is possible to live within the truth...therefore, everyone who steps out of line denies (the system) and threatens it in its entirety.