“It would appear that this sort of life, excluding “the pains of thought,” lays an individual open to new kinds of oppression. After all, the most effectual way of coping with manipulation or conditioning is to become cognizant of what is happening (and, if possible, to find out who is responsible). To take refuge within one’s inwardness may well be to disarm oneself as a social being, to render oneself doubly vulnerable to the mystifications that legitimate manipulation and conditioning. Under such circumstances, can the self remain inviolable? Or does a kind of inviolability have to be achieved—through critical reflection, in the pain of thought?”