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Inconclusive thoughts
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Inconclusive thoughts
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Inconclusive thoughts book
ABSTRACT
In the culminating passage of the Gospel, Christ asks that his persecutors be forgiven, 'for they know not what they do'. The contagion of evil can occur in any historical epoch. Modernity brings more awareness to bear against it but also provides it with more means of spreading. Modernity, however, is also made up of new immaterial processes that mobilize the paranoid part of the psyche. Paranoia permanently tainted the society of the Soviet Union, but mainly on the inside; it was mistrust between individuals, but also between professions, 'classes', ethnic groups. In addition to the circular relationship between paranoia and the interpretative rigidity of ideology, there is a circular relationship between tyranny and paranoia. Nationalism has received critical revisions, particularly in the new relationship between France and Germany, which has been made the foundation of Europe.