Well-informed cynicism is only another mode of conformity. These people willingly embrace or force themselves to accept the rule of the stronger as the eternal norm. Their whole life is a continuous effort to suppress and abase nature, inwardly or outwardly, and to identify themselves with its more powerful surrogates — the race, fatherland, leader, cliques, and tradition. For them, all these words mean the same thing — the irresistible reality that must be honored and obeyed.