If The Crowd Disperses, Goes Home, Does

There Is A Lack Of Critical Assessment Of The Past. But You Have To Understand That The Current Ruling Elite Is Actually The Old Ruling Elite. So They Are Incapable Of A Self-critical Approach To The Past.

Although A System May Cease To Exist In The Legal Sense Or As A Structure Of Power, Its Values (or Anti-values), Its Philosophy, Its Teachings Remain In Us. They Rule Our Thinking, Our Conduct, Our Attitude To Others. The Situation Is A Demonic Paradox: We Have Toppled The System But We Still Carry Its Genes.

In Poland A Man Must Be One Thing: White Or Black, Here Or There, With Us Or Against Us -- Clearly, Openly, Without Hesitations. . . . We Lack The Liberal, Democratic Tradition Rich In All Its Gradations. We Have Instead The Tradition Of Struggle: The Extreme Situation, The Final Gesture.

The Tradition Of Russian Literature Is Also An Eastern Tradition Of Learning Poetry And Prose By Heart.

There Aren't Many Such Enthusiasts Born. The Average Person Is Not Especially Curious About The World. He Is Alive, And Being Somehow Obliged To Deal With This Condition, Feels The Less Effort It Requires, The Better. Whereas Learning About The World Is Labor, And A Great All-consuming One At That. Most People Develop Quite Antithetical Talents, In Fact - To Look Without Seeing, To Listen Without Hearing, Mainly To Preserve Onself Within Oneself.