There is something terrifying about a state so convinced of its own self-righteousness, that excites its citizens into a frenzy of rage and worship, a state that feels free to control, coerce and kill, all in the name of its empire, for the sake of progress, or to prove it is on the ‘right side of history’. As Lévy cautions: I fear nothing so much as a state which mobilizes, inflames the hearts of its subjects, dispenses them from the trouble of thinking, and then one fine day leads them like sleepwalkers along the paths of glory and concentration camps.59
