@22 People like me, should this catastrophe occur, will never be able to prove the counterfactual. Yet it will still be true that these gulag triumphalists (because of course they, with me, will inhabit the new gulags, if there are habitable gulags rather than merely uninhabitable gas chambers) will be, and always will have been wrong, and will have played no small part in their own and the rest of our catastrophes. /fin