Lying Can Never Save Us From Another

The Cliché Organizes Life; It Expropriates People's Identity; It Becomes Ruler, Defense Lawyer, Judge, And The Law.

True Enough, The Country Is Calm. Calm As A Morgue Or A Grave, Would You Not Say?

A State That Denies Its Citizens Their Basic Rights Becomes A Danger To Its Neighbors As Well: Internal Arbitrary Rule Will Be Reflected In Arbitrary External Relations. The Suppression Of Public Opinion, The Abolition Of Public Competition For Power And Its Public Exercise Opens The Way For The State Power To Arm Itself In Any Way It Sees Fit.... A State That Does Not Hesitate To Lie To Its Own People Will Not Hesitate To Lie To Other States.

It Cannot Suffice To Invent New Machines, New Regulations, New Institutions. It Is Necessary To Change And Improve Our Understanding Of The True Purpose Of What We Are And What We Do In The World. Only Such A New Understanding Will Allow Us To Develop New Models Of Behavior, New Scales Of Values And Goals, And Thereby Invest The Global Regulations, Treaties And Institutions With A New Spirit And Meaning.

Man Is In Fact Nailed Down - Like Christ On The Cross - To A Grid Of Paradoxes. He Balances Between The Torment Of Not Knowing His Mission And The Joy Of Carrying It Out, Between Nothingness And Meaningfulness. And Like Christ, He Is In Fact Victorious By Virtue Of His Defeats.