You'd say he did it to please the guards. Or maybe it's in order to do a good job with us. And I thought he was just to experience the feeling of a normal person again, even just for a short moment.
The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. And which values? Even when they do not panic, men often sense that older ways of feeling and thinking have collapsed and that newer beginnings are ambiguous to the point of moral stasis.