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"Скончалось 827 человек, вчера 822. Зато индекс Rt упал за неделю с 1,18 до 1,08."

Наши времена не столь безумны как хотелось бы. Потому что в поисках смысла можно найти достаточно поганые вещи.

Небольшое развлечение для желающих: не заглядывая под кат, попробуйте угадать скрытые под цифрами слова. Не те, что можно подставить в наше время, а те, что были в оригинале.

So the unwilling subject of the mass state had to begin to trick himself, to look for excuses and subterfuges. But in so doing he lost exactly the self respect he was trying to maintain. An example of the way this works may be seen in the [-1-]. The [-1-] was deliberately introduced so that everywhere -- in the beer garden, the railroad, the place of work, and on the street -- it would be easy recognize anyone who hung on to the old "democratic" forms of [-2-].

To [-3-] followers, [-1-] was an expression of self assertion, of power. Each time a loyal subject [-1-] it, his sense of well-being shot up. For an opponent of the regime it worked exactly opposite. Every time he had to [-2-] in public he had an experience that shook and weakened his integration. More specifically, if the situation forced him to [-1-], he immediately felt a traitor to his deepest convictions. So he had to pretend to himself that it did not count. Or to put it another way: he could not change his actions -- he had to give the [-1-]. Since one's integration rests on acting in accord with one's beliefs, the only easy way to retain his integration was to change his beliefs. Things were made simpler by the fact that in most of us there is a great desire to conform. Everyone knows how hard it is to be deviant with even a casual acquaintance we meet on the street; it is infinitely more so when being different puts one's very life in danger. Thus many times a day the anti-[-4-] had either to become a martyr or abandon self respect.

А теперь правильный ответ.

[-1-] - the Hitler salute / the salute / giving the salute / to salute / performed (it)
[-2-] - greeting his friends / greet somebody
[-3-] - Hitler's (followers)
[-4-] - (anti-)Nazi

Bruno Bettelheim, "The Informed Heart", Ch. 7 "Men Are Not Ants", section "The Hitler salute"