AtDDtA1: Garçons de '71

[Otto]

"As the ordeal went on, it became clear (...) how much the modern
State depended for its survival on maintaining a condition of
_permanent siege_ — through the systematic encirclement of
populations, the starvation of bodies and spirits, the relentless
degradation of civility until citizen was turned against citizen, even
to the point of committing atrocities (…)." (19)