Groundhog Day. Every artificially created dip gets bought by stronger hands.
"In order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted." William HazlittBut when deception fails, it unleashes the pent up power of an earthquake.
"Quite a lot of what passes itself off as dialogue about our society consists of people trying to justify their own choices. Let me propose that if your beliefs or convictions matter more to you than people—if they require you to act as though you were a worse person than you are—you may have lost perspective."
Timothy Kreider, We Learn Nothing, 2012