ABSTRACT
Politics is not what we have thought it to be and what the public still thinks it to be. that is, a result of people's competing interests. Man in politics does not advance towards goals but aims at illusions which seize his imagination. Politics is a blind eruption of fear and hope. People of reason and of imagination must not get involved in politics, that is to say, they must not add to the fatal disorder with their illusions. Illusions do not die, for their death, like that of kings, crowns their successors because hope and fear continue to live as sources of illusion. Let us adopt die ancient traditions of the Sceptics, and, while looking at people of our age who are lost among misconceptions, let us enllghten their minds. However, when the war broke out, the belittling smile froze on the despising lips, for politics suddenly and unexpectedly became decisive and powerful.
