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| DOUGLAS: | But things have always been this way. Mice have always been oppressed. |
| ROBERT: | Picture yourself. |
| DOUGLAS: | Alrighty. |
| ROBERT: | Say you were a ruling member of one of the most exploitative and oppressive societies in the history of the world. |
| DOUGLAS: | Yes? |
| ROBERT: | Would you publicize this fact? |
| DOUGLAS: | Of course not. |
| ROBERT: | So, you would hide this fact. |
| DOUGLAS: | Well, I would probably utilize all popular forms of mediation to talk up particular interpretations of history that viewed the past as being as, if not more, oppressive than the present. |
| ROBERT: | So, you’d circulate the notion that ‘things have always been this way, mice have always been oppressed’. |
| DOUGLAS: | Circulate it?! I would freakin’ fuckin’-well ensure that it was freakin’ programmed into the very neural circuitry of every single commodified robot in that stupid consumerist culture, I would! |
| ROBERT: | So, what were you saying before? |
| DOUGLAS: | Oh, uh, I was, uh … say, what do you think’s playing at the Royal? |
| ROBERT: | Oh, probably movies. |
| DOUGLAS: | See! Some things do stay the same! |
| (Blackout) |