Now that you put it that way you are right and I completely agree, I just forgot how to articulate it properly. That he does see it, and chooses to ignore it for whatever reason he chose. Maybe he does see the rot but he's like "eh I can live with it" even though it's slowly destroying him, or maybe he's just trying to appease the established order just to be left alone.

The fact that he chose to not see or speak the truth is also what turned me off. It's that sort of behaviour that erodes your character, your society and your soul, so that by the time you realise what you've done you're in the cell of a gulag, like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, with other well-meaning people, trying to figure out just what it is that you did to deserve this fate. He chose not to speak up about it when he should have, and therefore he paid the price. (As you can see I learned about this from Jordan Peterson.)

Now that you put it that way you are right and I completely agree, I just forgot how to articulate it properly. That he does see it, and chooses to ignore it for whatever reason he chose. Maybe he does see the rot but he's like "eh I can live with it" even though it's slowly destroying him, or maybe he's just trying to appease the established order just to be left alone.

The fact that he chose to not see or speak the truth is also what turned me off. It's that sort of behaviour that erodes your character, your society and your soul, so that by the time you realise what you've done you're in the cell of a gulag, like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, with other well-meaning people, trying to figure out just what it is that you did to deserve this fate. He chose not to speak up about it when he should have, and therefore he paid the price.

Now that you put it that way you are right and I completely agree, I just forgot how to articulate it properly. That he does see it, and chooses to ignore it for whatever reason he chose. Maybe he does see the rot but he's like "eh I can live with it" even though it's slowly destroying him, or maybe he's just trying to appease the established order just to be left alone.

The fact that he chose to not see or speak the truth is also what turned me off. It's that sort of behaviour that erodes your character, your society and your soul, so that by the time you realise what you've done you're in the cell of a gulag, like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, trying to figure out just what it is that you did to deserve this fate. He chose not to speak up about it when he should have, and therefore he paid the price.