“inner and outer exiles”

Similar to social conditions in Nazi Germany, or also Soviet Russia, those I know of Putin’s Russia who have not gone into external exile, tend to being in internal.

Here in the USA the “inner exile” of a Steppenwolf or Steppenshewolf, is not from social oppression or political danger, but from indifference, disinterest.

Such is a quite different reality – but a reality for all that.