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leaves a place for knowledge to fill-the truth about today's politics in
the extreme, that its scope is unlimited, that it has entered and possessed
every inch of the private person, that it has nothing left to do with the
pieties of the surface formulations. We will be better off for being thus
disabused; and then there will be more point in telling the West. Even
so, we will have a long stretch to cover. The full distance-a politics in
which such things as in the Soviet Union not only do not occur, but are
impossible. But this is as much as to say, a new humanity: a society and
a human character-structure, proof against outrage. Which is what was
once meant by socialism. It is a long way off, further than ever, but we
may at least know we're on the right track when we no longer need
defend ourselves against the horror of contemporary politics, because
our own brutal susceptibility will have diminished; and when we begin
to feel, to our surprise, less and less horror and more and more of
mere contempt (nothing else will be necessary) for men who do such
violence-and at last, any violence-to other men.
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