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It would not be surprising if it did and if another civilized nation succumbed to the infection of a uniform and one-sided idea. America, which – O quae mutatio rerum! – forms the real political backbone of Western Europe, seems to be immune because of the outspoken counterposition she has adopted, but in point of fact she is perhaps even more vulnerable than Europe,

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It is a physiological read. The debate on the of individuality based on whether man is drawn towards State or Religion, where the state is again divides between Soviet and the West and Religion again Marxist vs regular. In both cases the individual loses individuality even at the higher echelon.

‘The suffocating power of the masses is paraded before our eyes in one form or another every day in the newspapers, and the insignificance of the individual is rubbed into him so thoroughly that he loses
all hope of making himself heard.’

‘As experience unfortunately shows, the inner man remains unchanged however much community he has. His environment cannot give him as a gift that which he can win for himself only with effort and suffering (a deep-seated change of the inner self).’

‘In actual fact, society is nothing more than an abstract idea like the State. Both are hypostatised, that is, have become autonomous. The State in particular is turned into a quasi-animate personality from whom everything is expected. ** In reality it is only a camouflage for those individuals who know how to manipulate it.’ **