In their common respect for rulers, antagonistic powers have always fostered the seeds of their future coexistence. Unresolved antagonisms fester, hiding real contradictions.
Decompression is the permanent control of both antagonists by the ruling class.
The third force radicalizes contradictions and leads to their supersession, in the name of individual freedom and against all forms of constraint. Power has no option but to smash or incorporate the third force without admitting its existence. To sum up. Millions of men lived in a huge building with no doors or windows. The feeble light of countless oil lamps competed with the unchanging darkness.