Old #authoritarian #joke:
A man walks by a newsstand every day. Each day, he stops and picks up a newspaper, looks at its front page, puts it back down, and continues walking. He does this every day for years, until the newsstand owner decides he could not contain his curiosity any more. The following day, the man stops by the newsstand as usual, and does his same routine. As he puts the newspaper down, the newsstand owner stops him and asks: “Excuse me sir, you come to my newsstand every day, pick up a newspaper, look at the front page, and put it back down. Why do you do that?”
“I’m looking for an obituary,” the man says.
“But obituaries are on page sixteen,” replies the newsstand owner.
“Not *this* obituary,” the man replies, as he walks away.