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Ironically, the wave of protests since then is consistent with the “modernization hypothesis” that Putin’s government has always used to justify the rollback of democracy in Russia: democracy is sustainable only if society is sufficiently well-off and has a solid middle class; until then, centralized rule is needed.

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And they did not turn out to be the Islamist boogeyman that the dictators were always using to justify their regime.

There's no audience like this to justify their rehearsal time.

And when you're in a situation where you have to justify every moment of your existence, you're put in the situation where you react in a very different manner.

So that's a very good reason beyond curiosity to justify what we're doing, and to justify having some interest in what is going on in our brains.

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