Tired With All These.. (1 More on Local Politics)

Shakespeare's sonnet can teach us things were never ever right.
As a period drama series in Croatia put it: there are always those that consent, those that oppose, and those that wait. And even this is a more than perfect model.
The choice is I think more visceral than conscious but a moment could be profitably given to the advantages of acquiescing. The party line does offer the quickest route from point to point.
A large majority of people are, I think, completely unable to imagine different worlds. SF is actually the closest they get - as to norms and values, they cannot see through them. And this is precisely the first great lesson the social sciences teach. Everything social is a construct, and a malleable one.
But nothing beats good old interest. For the sake of personal gain, man shall suffer greatest ignominy against his fellow man. And en route convince him he is to be blamed in the first place.
Wrongs are also instinctively felt. They pile up; the skunk must leave its den. It is, however, worth remembering there are no monoliths. Croatia is no exception. It seems petty bourgeois owners are content, refusing to comprehend the discontent - after all, it must be students' or peasants' fault.